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1975 Cricket World Cup

Index 1975 Cricket World Cup

The 1975 Cricket World Cup (officially called the Prudential Cup '75) was the first edition of the Cricket World Cup, organised by the International Cricket Conference (ICC) and was the first major limited overs One Day International (ODI) cricket tournament to be held. [1]

85 relations: Alan Turner (cricketer), Alvin Kallicharran, Andy Roberts (cricketer), Anura Tennekoon, Arthur Fagg, Arthur Jepson, Ashley Mallett, Australia national cricket team, Bernard Julien, Bill Alley, Birmingham, Brian McKechnie, Chris Old, Clive Lloyd, Cricket World Cup, David Constant, Dayle Hadlee, Dennis Amiss, Dennis Lillee, Deryck Murray, Dickie Bird, East Africa cricket team, Edgbaston Cricket Ground, England cricket team, ESPNcricinfo, Farokh Engineer, Frasat Ali, Gary Gilmour, Geoff Howarth, Glenn Turner, Gordon Greenidge, Gundappa Viswanath, Headingley Cricket Ground, Ian Chappell, Imran Khan, India national cricket team, Indian subcontinent, International Cricket Council, Jawahir Shah, John Langridge, John Morrison (cricketer), John Snow (cricketer), Keith Boyce, Keith Fletcher, Leeds, Lloyd Budd, Lord's, Madan Lal, Majid Khan (cricketer, born 1946), Manchester, ..., Mike Denness, Naseer Malik, New Zealand national cricket team, Not out, Nottingham, Old Trafford Cricket Ground, One Day International, Over (cricket), Pakistan national cricket team, Parbhu Nana, Peter Lever, Prudential plc, Ramesh Sethi, Richard Collinge, Ross Edwards, Round-robin tournament, Roy Fredericks, Sarfraz Nawaz, Single-elimination tournament, Somachandra de Silva, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka national cricket team, Sunil Gavaskar, Sunil Wettimuny, Syed Abid Ali, Test cricket, The Oval, Tom Spencer (cricketer), Tony Greig, Tony Opatha, Trent Bridge, Viv Richards, West Indies cricket team, Zaheer Abbas, Zulfiqar Ali. Expand index (35 more) »

Alan Turner (cricketer)

Alan Turner (born 23 July 1950, Camperdown, New South Wales) is a former Australian cricketer.

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Alvin Kallicharran

Alvin Isaac Kallicharran (born 21 March 1949) is a former cricketer of Indo-Guyanese ethnicity who played from 1972 to 1981.

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Andy Roberts (cricketer)

Sir Anderson Montgomery Everton Roberts, KCN (born 29 January 1951) is a former Antiguan first-class cricketer.

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Anura Tennekoon

Anura Tennekoon (born 29 October 1946) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and ODI captain of the Sri Lanka national cricket team.

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Arthur Fagg

Arthur Edward Fagg (18 June 1915 – 13 September 1977) was an English cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club and the English cricket team.

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Arthur Jepson

Arthur Jepson (12 July 1915 – 17 July 1997) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Nottinghamshire before becoming an umpire.

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Ashley Mallett

Ashley Alexander Mallett (born 13 July 1945, in Chatswood, New South Wales) is a former Australian cricketer who played in 38 Tests and 9 One Day Internationals between 1968 and 1980.

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Australia national cricket team

The Australia national cricket team is the joint oldest team in Test cricket history, having played in the first ever Test match in 1877.

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Bernard Julien

Bernard Denis Julien (born 13 March 1950) played 24 Tests and 12 One Day Internationals for the West Indies.

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Bill Alley

William (Bill) Edward Alley (3 February 1919 in Sydney, Australia – 26 November 2004 in Taunton, Somerset, England) was a cricketer who played 400 first-class matches for New South Wales, Somerset and a Commonwealth XI.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Brian McKechnie

Brian John McKechnie (born 6 November 1953 in Gore, Southland, New Zealand) was a "double All Black" - representing New Zealand in both rugby union and cricket.

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Chris Old

Chris Old (born Christopher Middleton Old, 22 December 1948, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire) is a former English cricketer, who played 46 Tests and 32 ODIs from 1972 to 1981.

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Clive Lloyd

Clive Hubert Lloyd (born 31 August 1944) is a former West Indies cricketer.

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Cricket World Cup

The ICC Cricket World Cup is the international championship of One Day International (ODI) cricket.

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David Constant

David John Constant (born 9 November 1941) is a former English professional cricketer and cricket cricket umpire.

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Dayle Hadlee

Dayle Robert Hadlee (born 6 January 1948) is a New Zealand former cricketer who played in 26 Tests and 11 ODIs from 1969 to 1978.

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Dennis Amiss

Dennis Leslie Amiss MBE (born 7 April 1943, Harborne, Birmingham, Warwickshire) is a former English cricketer and cricket administrator.

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Dennis Lillee

Dennis Keith Lillee, AM, MBE (born 18 July 1949) is a former Australian cricketer rated as the "outstanding fast bowler of his generation".

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Deryck Murray

Deryck Lance Murray (born 20 May 1943) is a former West Indies cricketer.

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Dickie Bird

Harold Dennis "Dickie" Bird, (born 19 April 1933, Staincross, West Riding of Yorkshire, England) is a retired English international cricket umpire.

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East Africa cricket team

The East Africa cricket team represented Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia.

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Edgbaston Cricket Ground

Edgbaston Cricket Ground, also known as the County Ground or Edgbaston Stadium, is a cricket ground in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, England.

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England cricket team

The England cricket team represents England and Wales (and, until 1992, also Scotland) in international cricket.

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ESPNcricinfo

ESPNcricinfo (formerly known as Cricinfo or CricInfo) is a sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket.

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Farokh Engineer

Farokh Maneksha Engineer (born 25 February 1938) is a former Indian cricketer.

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Frasat Ali

Frasat Ali Mughal (born 31 July 1949, Lahore, Pakistan) was an all-rounder representing the East African cricket team.

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Gary Gilmour

Gary "Gus" John Gilmour (26 June 195110 June 2014) was an Australian cricketer who played in 15 Tests and 5 One Day Internationals (ODIs) between 1973 and 1977.

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Geoff Howarth

Geoffrey Philip Howarth (born 29 March 1951) is a former New Zealand cricketer and former captain, who remains the only New Zealand captain to have positive win-loss records in both Test cricket and ODI cricket.

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Glenn Turner

Glenn Maitland Turner (born 26 May 1947) played cricket for New Zealand and was one of the country's best and most prolific batsmen.

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Gordon Greenidge

Cuthbert Gordon Greenidge MBE (born 1 May 1951) is a former Barbadian first-class cricketer, who played Tests and One Day Internationals for 17 years for West Indies.

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Gundappa Viswanath

Gundappa Ranganath Viswanath (born 12 February 1949) is a former Indian cricketer.

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Headingley Cricket Ground

Headingley Cricket Ground (usually shortened to Headingley) is a cricket ground in Headingley Stadium complex in Leeds, England.

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Ian Chappell

Ian Michael Chappell (born 26 September 1943) is a former cricketer who played for South Australia and Australia.

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Imran Khan

Imran Ahmad Khan Niazi PP, HI (born 5 October 1952) is the Chairman of Pakistan Movement of Justice and the candidate for the Prime Minister of Pakistan in the upcoming Pakistani general election, 2018.

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India national cricket team

The India national cricket team, also known as Team India and Men in Blue, is governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), and is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) status.

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Indian subcontinent

The Indian subcontinent is a southern region and peninsula of Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate and projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.

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International Cricket Council

The International Cricket Council (ICC) is the international governing body of cricket.

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Jawahir Shah

Jawahir Nathoo Shah (born 1 January 1942, Nairobi, Kenya) was an East African cricketer.

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John Langridge

John George Langridge MBE (10 February 1910 – 27 June 1999) was a cricketer who played for Sussex.

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John Morrison (cricketer)

John Francis Maclean Morrison, MNZM (born 27 August 1947 in Wellington) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played 17 Tests and 18 One Day Internationals for New Zealand.

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John Snow (cricketer)

John Augustine Snow (born 13 October 1941) is a retired English cricketer.

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Keith Boyce

Keith David Boyce (11 October 1943 – 11 October 1996) was a cricketer who played 21 Tests and 8 One Day Internationals for the West Indies between 1971 and 1976.

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Keith Fletcher

Keith William Robert Fletcher OBE (born 20 May 1944) is an English former first-class cricketer who played for Essex and England.

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in the metropolitan borough of Leeds, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

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Lloyd Budd

William Lloyd Budd was an English first-class cricketer and umpire.

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Lord's

Lord's Cricket Ground, commonly known simply as Lord's, is a cricket venue in St John's Wood, London.

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Madan Lal

Madan Lal Udhouram Sharma (Punjabi ਮਦਨ ਲਾਲ, Hindi मदन लाल and Urdu مدن لال ادی رام شرما) born 20 March 1951) is a former Indian cricketer (1974–1987) and Indian national cricket coach. He was also a member of the World Cup winning India squad of 1983.

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Majid Khan (cricketer, born 1946)

Majid Jahangir Khan (ماجد جہانگیر خان) is a former cricketer, batsman and captain of the Pakistan cricket team.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.

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Mike Denness

Michael Henry Denness (1 December 1940 – 19 April 2013) was a Scottish cricketer who played for England, Scotland, Kent and Essex.

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Naseer Malik

Naseer Ahmed Malik (February 1, 1950 – July 31, 1999) was a Pakistani cricketer who played three ODIs in 1975.

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New Zealand national cricket team

The New Zealand national cricket team, nicknamed the Black Caps, played their first Test in 1930 against England in Christchurch, becoming the fifth country to play Test cricket.

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Not out

In cricket, a batsman will be not out if he comes out to bat in an innings and has not been dismissed by the end of the innings.

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Nottingham

Nottingham is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, England, north of London, in the East Midlands.

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Old Trafford Cricket Ground

Old Trafford, known for sponsorship reasons as Emirates Old Trafford, is a cricket ground in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England.

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One Day International

A One Day International (ODI) is a form of limited overs cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of overs, usually 50.

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Over (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, an over consists of six consecutive balls bowled by a single bowler from one end of a cricket pitch to the batsman at the other end.

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Pakistan national cricket team

The Pakistan national cricket team (پاکستان قومی کرکٹ ٹیم), popularly referred to as the Shaheens (شاہینز), Green Shirts and Men in Green, is administered by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).

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Parbhu Nana

Parbhu Govan Nana (born 17 August 1933, India) is a former East African cricketer.

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Peter Lever

Peter Lever (born 17 September 1940, Todmorden, Yorkshire, England) is a former English cricketer, who played in seventeen Tests and ten ODIs for England from 1970 to 1975.

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Prudential plc

Prudential plc is a British multinational life insurance and financial services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

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Ramesh Sethi

Ramesh Kumar Sethi (born 4 September 1941) is a former Kenyan cricketer who represented East Africa in one first-class match and three One-Day Internationals in the 1975 World Cup.

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Richard Collinge

Richard Owen Collinge (born 2 April 1946 in Wellington) is a former New Zealand cricketer, who played 35 Tests and 15 ODIs.

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Ross Edwards

Ross Edwards (born 1 December 1942) is a former Australian cricketer.

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Round-robin tournament

A round-robin tournament (or all-play-all tournament) is a competition in which each contestant meets all other contestants in turn.

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Roy Fredericks

Roy Clifton Fredericks (11 November 1942, Blairmont, British Guiana – 5 September 2000, New York, U.S.) was a West Indian cricketer who played Test cricket from 1968 to 1977.

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Sarfraz Nawaz

Sarfraz Nawaz Malik (Punjabi, سرفراز نواز ملک) (born 1 December 1948) is a former Pakistani Test cricketer and politician who discovered reverse swing and was instrumental in Pakistan's first Test series victories over India and England.

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Single-elimination tournament

A single-elimination, knockout, or sudden death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of each match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament.

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Somachandra de Silva

Dandeniyage Somachandra de Silva (born 11 June 1942, in Galle) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer, who plays Test and ODIs.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.

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Sri Lanka national cricket team

The Sri Lanka national cricket team, nicknamed The Lions, is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test, One-Day International (ODI) and T20 International status.

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Sunil Gavaskar

Sunil Manohar "Sunny" Gavaskar (born 10 July 1949) is a former Indian international cricketer who played from the early 1970s to late 1980s for the Bombay cricket team and Indian national team.

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Sunil Wettimuny

Sunil Ramsay de Silva Wettimuny (born 2 February 1949), or Sunil Wettimuny, is a former Sri Lankan cricketer who played three One Day International (ODI) matches in the Cricket World Cup tournaments of 1975 and 1979 as an opening batsman.

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Syed Abid Ali

Syed Abid Ali (born 9 September 1941) is a former all-rounder Indian cricketer.

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Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket and is considered its highest standard.

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The Oval

The Oval, currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Kia Oval, is an international cricket ground in Kennington, in the London Borough of Lambeth, South London.

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Tom Spencer (cricketer)

Thomas William Spencer OBE (22 March 1914 – 1 November 1995) was a London-born English first-class cricketer and international umpire.

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Tony Greig

Anthony William "Tony" Greig (6 October 194629 December 2012) was an England Test cricket captain turned commentator.

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Tony Opatha

Antony Ralph Marinon Opatha (born August 5, 1947, Colombo) is a former Sri Lankan ODI cricketer.

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Trent Bridge

Trent Bridge is a cricket ground mostly used for Test, One-day international and County cricket located in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, England, just across the River Trent from the city of Nottingham.

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Viv Richards

Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards, KNH, OBE (born 7 March 1952), known as Viv Richards, is a former Antiguan cricketer, who represented the West Indies at test and international levels.

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West Indies cricket team

The West Indies cricket team, colloquially known as and (since June 2017) officially branded as the Windies, is a multi-national cricket team representing the Caribbean region and administered by Cricket West Indies.

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Zaheer Abbas

Syed Zaheer Abbas Kirmani (in Punjabi and Urdu: سید ظہیر عباس کرمانی; born 24 July 1947), popularly known as Zaheer Abbas, is a former Pakistani cricketer.

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Zulfiqar Ali

Zulfiqar Ali (born 1947, Mombasa, Kenya) was a right-handed cricket bowler who played three ODIs for East Africa.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Cricket_World_Cup

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