2007 Cricket World Cup squads

These are the squads picked for the 2007 Cricket World Cup, the eighth instalment of the Cricket World Cup tournament. The tournament is scheduled to be held between 14 March and 28 April 2007.

Note

Note that people with Unknown as their bowling type have never bowled in First Class cricket.

Group A

Australia

Australia named their 15-man squad on 13 February 2007. On 23 February 2007, Brett Lee was removed from the squad due to injury and was replaced by Stuart Clark.

Coach: John Buchanan

Player Date of Birth ODIs Batting Bowling style First class team Ricky Ponting (c) 19 December 1974 268 Right Right arm medium Tasmanian Tigers Nathan Bracken 12 September 1977 57 Right Left arm fast medium New South Wales Blues Stuart Clark 28 September 1975 24 Right Right arm fast medium New South Wales Blues Michael Clarke 2 April 1981 101 Right Slow left arm orthodox New South Wales Blues Adam Gilchrist 14 November 1971 256 Left Wicket-keeper Western Warriors Brad Haddin 23 October 1977 21 Right Wicket-keeper New South Wales Blues Matthew Hayden 29 October 1971 133 Left Right arm medium Queensland Bulls Brad Hodge 29 December 1974 13 Right Right arm off break Victorian Bushrangers Brad Hogg 6 February 1971 95 Left Slow left arm chinaman Western Warriors Michael Hussey 27 May 1975 61 Left Right arm medium Western Warriors Mitchell Johnson 2 November 1981 18 Left Left arm fast medium Queensland Bulls Glenn McGrath 9 February 1970 238 Right Right arm medium fast New South Wales Blues Andrew Symonds 9 June 1975 139 Right Right arm off break Queensland Bulls Shaun Tait 22 February 1983 4 Right Right arm fast Southern Redbacks Shane Watson 17 June 1981 57 Right Right arm fast medium Queensland Bulls

Netherlands

The KNCB named their 15-man squad on 13 February 2007. The squad was unchanged from that which was named for the World Cricket League Division One event in January 2007.

Coach: Peter Cantrell

Player Date of Birth ODIs Batting Bowling style Domestic team Luuk van Troost (c) 28 December 1969 21 Left Left arm medium Excelsior'20 Peter Borren 21 August 1983 10 Right Right arm medium VRA Amsterdam Daan van Bunge 19 October 1982 21 Right Right arm leg break Excelsior'20 Ryan ten Doeschate 30 June 1980 11 Right Right arm medium fast Essex Eagles Mark Jonkman 20 March 1986 4 Right Right arm medium fast HCC Den Haag Mohammad Kashif 3 December 1984 6 Right Slow left arm orthodox VOC Rotterdam Alexei Kervezee 11 September 1989 10 Right Right arm medium Worcestershire Royals Tim de Leede 25 January 1968 26 Right Right arm medium Voorburg CC Adeel Raja 15 August 1980 7 Right Right arm off break VRA Amsterdam Darron Reekers 26 May 1973 9 Right Right arm medium Quick Den Haag Edgar Schiferli 17 May 1976 13 Right Right arm medium fast Quick Den Haag Jeroen Smits 21 June 1972 19 Right Wicket-keeper HCC Den Haag Billy Stelling 30 June 1969 9 Right Right arm fast medium HBS Craeyenhout Eric Szwarczynski 13 February 1983 4 Right Right arm medium VRA Amsterdam Bas Zuiderent 3 March 1977 26 Right Right arm medium VOC Rotterdam

Scotland

Scotland named their squad in August 2006, to assist the players in arranging work and training schedules. However, Glenn Rogers later came in for Omer Hussain. Of the Scotland 15, Gavin Hamilton and John Blain have previous World Cup experience.

Coach: Peter Drinnen

Player Date of Birth ODIs Batting Bowling style Domestic team Craig Wright (c) 28 April 1974 13 Right Right arm medium Greenock John Blain 4 January 1979 18 Left Right arm fast medium Yorkshire Phoenix Dougie Brown 29 October 1969 13 Right Right arm fast medium Warwickshire Bears Gavin Hamilton 16 September 1974 18 Left Right arm medium fast / Scottish Saltires Majid Haq 11 February 1983 10 Left Right arm off break Ferguslie Paul Hoffmann 14 January 1970 12 Right Right arm medium fast Uddingston Dougie Lockhart 19 January 1976 4 Right Right arm medium West of Scotland Ross Lyons 8 December 1984 13 Left Slow left arm orthodox Clydesdale Neil McCallum 22 November 1977 14 Right Grange Dewald Nel 6 June 1980 5 Right Right arm medium fast Greenock Navdeep Poonia 11 May 1986 8 Right Right arm medium fast Warwickshire Bears Glenn Rogers 12 April 1977 4 Right Slow left arm orthodox Stenhousemuir Colin Smith 27 September 1972 11 Right Wicket-keeper Aberdeenshire Ryan Watson 12 November 1976 14 Right Right arm medium fast Forfarshire Fraser Watts 5 June 1979 12 Right Greenock

South Africa

South Africa named their 15 man squad on 15 February.

Coach: Mickey Arthur

Player Date of Birth ODIs Batting Bowling style First class team Graeme Smith (c) 1 February 1981 103 Left Right arm off break Cape Cobras Loots Bosman 14 April 1977 8 Right Right arm medium Eagles Mark Boucher 3 December 1976 231 Right Wicket-keeper Warriors A. B. de Villiers 17 February 1984 29 Right Right arm medium and wicket-keeper Titans Herschelle Gibbs 23 February 1974 198 Right Right arm medium Cape Cobras Andrew Hall 31 July 1975 76 Right Right arm fast medium Dolphins Kent Spitfires Jacques Kallis 16 October 1975 242 Right Right arm fast medium Cape Cobras Justin Kemp 2 October 1977 66 Right Right arm fast medium Titans Kent Spitfires Charl Langeveldt 17 December 1974 38 Right Right arm fast medium Lions Andre Nel 15 July 1977 56 Right Right arm fast medium Titans Makhaya Ntini 6 July 1977 143 Right Right arm fast Warriors Robin Peterson 4 August 1979 33 Left Slow left arm orthodox Warriors Shaun Pollock 16 July 1973 268 Right Right arm fast medium Dolphins Ashwell Prince 28 May 1977 40 Left Left arm slow Cape Cobras Roger Telemachus 27 March 1973 37 Right Right arm fast medium Eagles

Group B

Bangladesh

Bangladesh named their 15-man squad on 13 February.

Coach: Dav Whatmore

Player Date of Birth ODIs Batting Bowling style First class team Habibul Bashar (c) 17 August 1972 100 Right Right arm off break Khulna Abdur Razzaq 15 June 1982 38 Right Slow left arm orthodox Khulna Aftab Ahmed 10 November 1985 55 Right Right arm medium Chittagong Javed Omar 25 November 1976 53 Right Right arm leg break Dhaka Mashrafe Mortaza 5 October 1983 56 Right Right arm fast medium Khulna Mohammad Ashraful 9 September 1984 88 Right Right arm leg break Dhaka Mohammad Rafique 5 September 1970 112 Left Slow left arm orthodox Dhaka Mushfiqur Rahim 1 September 1988 11 Right Wicket-keeper Rajshahi Rajin Saleh 20 November 1983 43 Right Right arm off break Sylhet Saqibul Hasan 24 March 1987 20 Left Slow left arm Khulna Shahadat Hossain 7 August 1986 20 Right Right arm fast medium Dhaka Shahriar Nafees 25 January 1986 41 Left Barisal Syed Rasel 3 July 1984 19 Left Left arm medium fast Khulna Tamim Iqbal 20 March 1989 4 Left Chittagong Tapash Baisya 25 December 1982 55 Right Right arm fast medium Sylhet

Bermuda

Bermuda announced their 15-man squad on 13 February 2007.

Coach: Gus Logie

Player Date of Birth ODIs Batting Bowling style Domestic team Irving Romaine (c) 8 August 1972 19 Right Right arm off break Baileys Bay Delyone Borden 4 March 1985 7 Right Right arm off break St. David's Lionel Cann 3 October 1972 14 Right Right arm medium Southampton Rangers David Hemp 8 November 1970 14 Left Right arm medium Glamorgan Dragons Kevin Hurdle 30 December 1976 14 Right Right arm fast Young Men's Social Club Malachi Jones 26 June 1989 8 Right Right arm medium fast Southampton Rangers Stefan Kelly 24 August 1988 6 Right Right arm fast medium St. David's Dwayne Leverock 14 July 1971 17 Right Slow left arm orthodox Southampton Rangers Dean Minors 6 January 1970 17 Left Wicket-keeper Flatts Victoria Saleem Mukuddem 20 January 1972 18 Right Right arm medium Western Stars Steven Outerbridge 20 May 1983 8 Right Right arm off break Baileys Bay Oliver Pitcher 27 May 1983 2 Right Right arm medium St. David's Clay Smith 15 January 1971 11 Right Right arm off break Cleveland County Janeiro Tucker 15 March 1975 18 Right Right arm medium Southampton Rangers Kwame Tucker 28 September 1976 12 Right Wicket-keeper Southampton Rangers

India

India announced their final 15-man squad on 12 February 2007.

Coach: Greg Chappell

Player Date of Birth ODIs Batting Bowling style First class team Rahul Dravid (c) 11 January 1973 306 Right Right arm off break Karnataka Ajit Agarkar 4 December 1977 180 Right Right arm fast medium Mumbai Mahendra Singh Dhoni 7 July 1981 66 Right Wicket-keeper Jharkhand Sourav Ganguly 8 July 1972 285 Left Right arm medium Bengal Harbhajan Singh 3 July 1980 147 Right Right arm off break Punjab Dinesh Karthik 1 June 1985 13 Right Wicket-keeper Tamil Nadu Zaheer Khan 7 October 1978 113 Right Left arm fast medium Mumbai Anil Kumble 17 October 1970 268 Right Right arm leg break Karnataka Munaf Patel 12 July 1983 17 Right Right arm medium fast Maharashtra Irfan Pathan 27 October 1984 73 Left Left arm medium fast Baroda Virender Sehwag 20 October 1978 160 Right Right arm off break Delhi Sreesanth 6 February 1983 27 Right Right arm fast medium Kerala Sachin Tendulkar 24 April 1973 381 Right Right arm leg break Mumbai Robin Uthappa 11 November 1985 8 Right Right arm medium Karnataka Yuvraj Singh 12 December 1981 163 Left Slow left arm orthodox Punjab

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka announced their 15-man squad on 12 February 2007.

Coach: Tom Moody

Player Date of Birth ODIs Batting Bowling style First class team Mahela Jayawardene (c) 27 May 1977 234 Right Right arm medium Sinhalese SC Russel Arnold 25 October 1973 169 Left Right arm off break Nondescripts CC Marvan Atapattu 22 November 1970 268 Right Right arm leg break Sinhalese SC Malinga Bandara 31 December 1979 23 Right Right arm leg break Ragama CC Tillakaratne Dilshan 14 October 1976 109 Right Right arm off break Bloomfield C&AC Dilhara Fernando 19 July 1979 105 Right Right arm fast medium Sinhalese SC Sanath Jayasuriya 30 June 1969 378 Left Slow left arm orthodox Bloomfield C&AC Nuwan Kulasekara 22 July 1982 17 Right Right arm fast medium Colts CC Farveez Maharoof 7 September 1984 60 Right Right arm fast medium Bloomfield C&AC Lasith Malinga 4 September 1983 28 Right Right arm medium Nondescripts CC Muttiah Muralitharan 17 April 1972 280 Right Right arm off break Tamil Union C&AC Kumar Sangakkara 27 October 1977 182 Left Wicket-keeper Nondescripts CC Chamara Silva 14 December 1979 14 Right Right arm leg break Sebastianites C&AC Upul Tharanga 2 February 1985 43 Left Nondescripts CC Chaminda Vaas 27 January 1974 289 Left Left arm fast medium Colts CC

Group C

Canada

Canada named their 15-man squad on 14 February 2007.

Coach: Andy Pick

Player Date of Birth ODIs Batting Bowling style Domestic team(s) John Davison (c) 9 May 1970 22 Right Right arm off break Mosman Qaiser Ali 20 December 1978 11 Right Right arm off break Adastrians Ashish Bagai 26 January 1982 26 Right Wicket-keeper Toronto Geoff Barnett 3 February 1984 6 Left Right arm medium Central Districts Stags Meraloma Umar Bhatti 4 January 1984 13 Left Left arm medium Victoria Park Ian Billcliff 26 October 1972 10 Right Right arm medium University/Ellerslie Desmond Chumney 8 January 1968 20 Right Right arm off break Victoria Park Austin Codrington 22 August 1975 9 Right Right arm medium fast Victoria Park George Codrington 26 November 1966 16 Right Right arm medium fast Victoria Park Anderson Cummins 7 May 1966 10 Right Right arm fast medium Cavaliers Sunil Dhaniram 17 October 1968 18 Left Slow left arm orthodox Cavaliers Asif Mulla 5 May 1980 12 Right Wicket-keeper Yorkshire Henry Osinde 17 October 1978 17 Right Right arm medium fast WICC Abdool Samad 3 May 1979 16 Right Right arm off break Cavaliers Kevin Sandher 16 July 1980 13 Right Slow left arm orthodox Meraloma

England

England announced their final 15-man squad at The Oval on 14 February 2007.

Coach: Duncan Fletcher

Player Date of Birth ODIs Batting Bowling style First class team Michael Vaughan (c) 29 October 1974 77 Right Right arm off break Yorkshire Phoenix James Anderson 30 July 1982 57 Left Right arm fast medium Lancashire Lightning Ian Bell 11 April 1982 36 Right Right arm medium Warwickshire Bears Ravi Bopara 4 May 1985 1 Right Right arm medium Essex Eagles Paul Collingwood 26 May 1976 112 Right Right arm medium fast Durham Dynamos Jamie Dalrymple 21 January 1981 24 Right Right arm off break Middlesex Crusaders Andrew Flintoff 6 December 1977 112 Right Right arm fast Lancashire Lightning Ed Joyce 22 September 1978 12 Left Right arm medium Middlesex Crusaders Jon Lewis 26 August 1975 12 Right Right arm medium fast Gloucestershire Gladiators Sajid Mahmood 21 December 1981 19 Right Right arm fast Lancashire Lightning Paul Nixon 21 October 1970 10 Left Wicket-keeper Leicestershire Foxes Monty Panesar 25 April 1982 9 Left Slow left arm orthodox Northamptonshire Steelbacks Kevin Pietersen 27 June 1980 40 Right Right arm off break Hampshire Hawks Liam Plunkett 6 April 1985 22 Right Right arm fast medium Durham Dynamos Andrew Strauss 2 March 1977 74 Left Left arm medium Middlesex Crusaders

Kenya

Kenya named their 15-man squad on 13 February 2007.

Coach: Roger Harper

Player Date of Birth ODIs Batting Bowling style Domestic team Steve Tikolo (c) 25 June 1971 89 Right Right arm medium Swamibapa Rajesh Bhudia 22 November 1984 0 Right Right arm medium Kanbis Jimmy Kamande 12 December 1978 39 Right Right arm off break Parklands Tanmay Mishra 22 December 1986 25 Right Right arm fast medium Aga Khan Collins Obuya 27 July 1981 49 Right Right arm leg break Stray Lions David Obuya 14 August 1979 41 Right Wicket-keeper Stray Lions Nehemiah Odhiambo 7 August 1983 16 Right Right arm medium fast Swamibapa Thomas Odoyo 12 May 1978 87 Right Right arm medium fast Kanbis Peter Ongondo 10 February 1977 47 Right Right arm medium Swamibapa Lameck Onyango 22 September 1973 9 Right Right arm medium Swamibapa Maurice Ouma 8 November 1982 23 Right Wicket-keeper Swamibapa Malhar Patel 27 November 1983 3 Right Unknown Kanbis Ravindu Shah 28 August 1972 53 Right Right arm medium Nairobi Gymkhana Tony Suji 5 February 1976 53 Right Right arm medium Swamibapa Hiren Varaiya 9 April 1984 15 Right Slow left arm orthodox Nairobi Gymkhana

New Zealand

New Zealand announced a preliminary squad on 14 January 2007, and announced their 15-man squad on 13 February 2007.

Coach: John Bracewell

Player Date of Birth ODIs Batting Bowling style First class team Stephen Fleming (c) 1 April 1973 269 Left Right arm medium Wellington Firebirds Shane Bond 7 June 1975 59 Right Right arm fast Canterbury Wizards James Franklin 7 November 1980 56 Left Left arm fast medium Wellington Firebirds Peter Fulton 1 February 1979 28 Right Right arm medium Canterbury Wizards Mark Gillespie 17 October 1979 15 Right Right arm fast medium Wellington Firebirds Michael Mason 27 August 1974 14 Right Right arm fast medium Central Districts Stags Brendon McCullum 27 September 1981 104 Right Wicket-keeper Canterbury Wizards Craig McMillan 13 September 1976 187 Right Right arm medium Canterbury Wizards Jacob Oram 28 July 1978 93 Left Right arm medium Central Districts Stags Jeetan Patel 7 May 1980 17 Right Right arm off break Wellington Firebirds Scott Styris 10 July 1975 123 Right Right arm fast medium Auckland Aces Ross Taylor 8 March 1984 18 Right Right arm off break Central Districts Stags Daryl Tuffey 11 June 1978 79 Right Right arm fast medium Northern Districts Knights Daniel Vettori 27 January 1979 187 Left Slow left arm orthodox Northern Districts Knights Lou Vincent 11 November 1978 94 Right Right arm medium Auckland Aces

Group D

Ireland

Ireland named their squad in August 2006, to assist the players in arranging work and training schedules. Irish player Ed Joyce, who turned out for Ireland in qualifying matches, is in England's squad.

Coach: Adrian Birrell

Player Date of Birth ODIs Batting Bowling style Domestic team Trent Johnston (c) 29 April 1974 7 Right Right arm fast medium Clontarf Andre Botha 12 September 1975 8 Left Right arm medium North County Jeremy Bray 30 November 1973 6 Left Eglinton Kenny Carroll 22 March 1983 2 Right Slow left arm chinaman Railway Union Peter Gillespie 11 May 1974 4 Right Right arm medium Strabane Dave Langford-Smith 7 December 1976 7 Right Right arm fast medium Phoenix Kyle McCallan 27 August 1975 8 Right Right arm off break Waringstown John Mooney 10 February 1982 6 Left Right arm medium North County Paul Mooney 15 October 1976 3 Right Right arm medium North County Eoin Morgan 10 September 1986 6 Left Right arm fast medium Middlesex Crusaders Kevin O'Brien 4 March 1984 7 Right Right arm medium fast Railway Union Niall O'Brien 8 November 1981 7 Right Wicket-keeper Kent Spitfires William Porterfield 6 September 1984 7 Left Rush Boyd Rankin 5 July 1984 1 Right Right arm medium fast Derbyshire Phantoms Andrew White 3 July 1980 8 Right Right arm off break Northants Steelbacks

Pakistan

Pakistan announced a preliminary squad on 10 January 2007, and the final 15-man squad on 13 February 2007. Both Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif were included, despite their ongoing doping case, where the Pakistan Cricket Board had first banned them before a tribunal reprieved the two. In a twist of fate, both players were replaced by Mohammad Sami and Yasir Arafat on 1 March due to knee and elbow injuries respectively.

Pakistan had already done one change due to injury: Azhar Mahmood joined the squad in place of Abdul Razzaq, who suffered a knee injury during a practice session on 26 February.

Coach: Bob Woolmer

Player Date of Birth ODIs Batting Bowling style First class team(s) Inzamam-ul-Haq (c) 3 March 1970 372 Right Slow left arm orthodox WAPDA/Multan Azhar Mahmood 28 February 1975 142 Right Right arm fast medium HBL/Islamabad Surrey Lions Danish Kaneria 16 December 1980 16 Right Right arm leg break HBL/Karachi Harbour Iftikhar Anjum 1 December 1980 26 Right Right arm medium ZTBL/Islamabad Imran Nazir 31 December 1981 65 Right Right arm leg break NBP/Sialkot Kamran Akmal 13 January 1982 62 Right Wicket-keeper NBP/Lahore Ravi Mohammad Hafeez 17 October 1980 44 Right Right arm off break SNGPL/Faisalabad Mohammad Sami 24 February 1981 78 Left Right arm fast NBP/Karachi Mohammad Yousuf 27 August 1974 229 Right WAPDA/Lahore Ravi Rana Naved-ul-Hasan 28 February 1978 61 Right Right arm medium fast WAPDA/Sialkot Sussex Sharks Shahid Afridi 1 March 1980 232 Right Right arm leg break HBL/Karachi Harbour Template:IRLc Shoaib Malik 1 February 1982 134 Right Right arm off break PIA/Sialkot Umar Gul 14 April 1984 25 Right Right arm fast medium HBL/Peshawar Yasir Arafat 12 March 1982 7 Right Right arm medium KRL/Rawalpindi Sussex Sharks Younis Khan 29 November 1977 148 Right Right arm leg break HBL/Peshawar

West Indies

West Indies named their squad on 15 February 2007.

Coach: Bennett King

Player Date of Birth ODIs Batting Bowling style First class team Brian Lara (c) 2 May 1969 286 Left Right arm leg break googly Trinidad and Tobago Ian Bradshaw 9 July 1974 59 Left Left arm fast medium Barbados Dwayne Bravo 7 October 1983 59 Right Right arm medium fast Trinidad and Tobago Kent Spitfires Shivnarine Chanderpaul 18 August 1974 208 Left Right arm leg break Guyana Corey Collymore 21 December 1977 77 Right Right arm fast medium Barbados Chris Gayle 21 September 1979 156 Left Right arm off break Jamaica Daren Powell 15 April 1978 15 Right Right arm fast medium Jamaica Kieron Pollard 12 May 1987 0 Right Right arm medium Trinidad and Tobago Denesh Ramdin 13 March 1985 22 Right Wicket-keeper Trinidad and Tobago Marlon Samuels 5 February 1981 83 Right Right arm off break Jamaica Ramnaresh Sarwan 23 June 1980 115 Right Right arm leg break Guyana Lendl Simmons 25 January 1985 6 Right Right arm medium fast Trinidad and Tobago Devon Smith 21 October 1981 10 Left Right arm off break Windward Islands Dwayne Smith 12 April 1983 59 Right Right arm medium Barbados Jerome Taylor 22 June 1984 28 Right Right arm fast Jamaica

Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe's 15 man squad was announced on 14 February; only one player remains from the 2003 squad.

Coach: Kevin Curran

Player Date of Birth ODIs Batting Bowling style First class team Prosper Utseya (c) 26 March 1985 59 Right Right arm off break Manicaland Gary Brent 13 January 1976 57 Right Right arm medium fast Manicaland Justice Chibhabha 6 September 1986 22 Right Right arm medium Mashonaland Elton Chigumbura 14 March 1986 53 Right Right arm medium Manicaland Keith Dabengwa 17 August 1980 12 Left Slow left arm orthodox Matabeleland Terry Duffin 20 March 1982 22 Left Right arm medium Matabeleland Anthony Ireland 30 August 1984 25 Right Right arm medium Midlands Friday Kasteni 25 March 1988 1 Left Wicket-keeper Midlands Stuart Matsikenyeri 3 May 1983 60 Right Right arm off break Manicaland Christopher Mpofu 27 November 1985 18 Right Right arm medium Matabeleland Tawanda Mupariwa 16 April 1985 19 Right Right arm fast medium Matabeleland Edward Rainsford 14 December 1984 23 Right Right arm fast medium Midlands Vusi Sibanda 10 October 1983 46 Right Right arm medium Midlands Brendan Taylor 6 February 1983 60 Right Wicket-keeper Mashonaland Sean Williams 26 September 1986 13 Left Slow left arm orthodox Matabeleland References