ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 Team Squads (Updated)

ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 Team Squads/Players

ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 to be held at England & Wales from May 30, 2019. Top 10 ODI Cricket Teams will participate in the tournament including Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, England. Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, West Indies, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. Cricket World Cup group matches to be played are 45 Matches during the League Stage of the Competition. This will follow up the two Semi-Finals and the Final on July 14.

England & Wales will be hosting these Matches on 11 Venues. Each Venue will host at least 3 Matches. According to the ICC’s World Cup 2019 fixtures, the venues are:

• Lord’s in London
• The Oval in London
• Old Trafford in Manchester
• County Ground in Bristol
• County Ground in Taunton
• Southampton
• Leeds in Headingley
• Cardiff
• Edgbaston in Birmingham
• Trent Bridge in Nottingham
• Chester-le-Street in Durham

The ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 fixtures/Schedule can be found here

World Cup 2019 Teams are announced and here is the Team Squads/Players list:

Pakistan Squad:

Sarfaraz Ahmed (captain & wk), *Asif Ali, Babar Azam, Fakhar Zaman, Haris Sohail, Hasan Ali, Imad Wasim, Imam-ul-Haq, *Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Hafeez, Mohammad Hasnain, Shadab Khan, Shaheen Afridi, Shoaib Malik, *Wahab Riaz

India Squad:

Virat Kohli (capt), Jasprit Bumrah, Yuzvendra Chahal, Shikhar Dhawan, MS Dhoni (wk), Ravindra Jadeja, Kedar Jadhav, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Hardik Pandya, KL Rahul, Mohammed Shami, Vijay Shankar, Rohit Sharma, Kuldeep Yadav

Sri Lanka Squad:

*Dimuth Karunaratne (captain), Avishka Fernando, Suranga Lakmal, Lasith Malinga, Angelo Mathews, Jeevan Mendis, Kusal Mendis (wk), Kusal Perera (wk), Thisara Perera, Nuwan Pradeep, Dhananjaya de Silva, Milinda Siriwardana, Lahiru Thirimanne, Isuru Udana, Jeffrey Vandersay

South Africa Squad:

Faf du Plessis (captain), Hashim Amla, Quinton de Kock (wk), JP Duminy, Aiden Markram, David Miller, *Chris Morris, Lungi Ngidi, Andile Phehlukwayo, Dwaine Pretorius, Kagiso Rabada, Tabraiz Shamsi, Dale Steyn, Imran Tahir, Rassie van der Dussen

England Squad:

Eoin Morgan (captain), Moeen Ali, *Jofra Archer, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Jos Buttler (wk), Tom Curran, *Liam Dawson, Liam Plunkett, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Jason Roy, Ben Stokes, James Vince, Chris Woakes, Mark Wood

Australia Squad:

Aaron Finch (captain), Jason Behrendorff, Alex Carey (wk), Nathan Coulter-Nile, Pat Cummins, Usman Khawaja, Nathan Lyon, Shaun Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, *Kane Richardson, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Marcus Stoinis, David Warner, Adam Zampa

New Zealand Squad:

Kane Williamson (captain), *Tom Blundell (wk), Trent Boult, Colin de Grandhomme, Lockie Ferguson, Martin Guptill, Matt Henry, Tom Latham (wk), Colin Munro, Jimmy Neesham, Henry Nicholls, Mitchell Santner, Ish Sodhi, Tim Southee, Ross Taylor

West Indies Squad:

Jason Holder (capt), Fabian Allen, Carlos Brathwaite, Darren Bravo, Sheldon Cottrell, Shannon Gabriel, Chris Gayle, Shimron Hetmyer, Shai Hope (wk), Evin Lewis, Ashley Nurse, Nicholas Pooran, Kemar Roach, *Andre Russell, Oshane Thomas

Bangladesh Squad:

Mashrafe Mortaza (captain), Abu Jayed, Liton Das (wk), Mahmudullah, Mehidy Hasan, Mohammad Mithun (wk), Mohammad Saifuddin, Mosaddek Hossain, Mushfiqur Rahim (wk), Mustafizur Rahman, Rubel Hossain, Sabbir Rahman, Shakib Al Hasan, Soumya Sarkar, Tamim Iqbal

Afghanistan Squad:

Gulbadin Naib (captain), Mohammad Shahzad (wk), Noor Ali Zadran, Hazratullah Zazai, Rahmat Shah, Asghar Afghan, Hashmatullah Shahidi, Najibullah Zadran, Samiullah Shinwari, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Dawlat Zadran, Aftab Alam, Hamid Hassan, Mujeeb Ur Rahman

Changes in Teams Squad

• Pakistan Squad: Asif, Amir & Wahab Riaz included for Abid Ali, Junaid Khan, Faheem Ashraf
• South Africa Squad: Chris Morris replaced Anrich Nortje
• Sri Lanka Squad: Change Captain & drop five key players
• Australia Squad: Kane Richardson replaced Jhye Richardson
• England Squad: Archer & Dawson included as Willey & Denly left out
• New Zealand Squad: Uncapped Blundell included in NZ Squad
• West Indies Squad: Russell returns after 4 Years played ODI last in 2015

•  We will update as soon as the participating countries will update their Squads/Players. 
•  We have no responsibility for the accuracy of this information as we collect data from News Cricket Websites. 

History of Previous Cricket World Cups

West Indies were the winners of the First Two World Cups 1975, 1979 which were held in England, beating Australia and England in the finals.

West Indies were about to make it 3 in a row when they bowled India out for 183 in the Final of the 1983 competition, but they were dismissed for 140 and India have crowned the Winners in England.

Australia won their First ever Title when they defeated England in the 1987 World Cup Final in India and Pakistan.

The 1992 World Cup was held in Australia and New Zealand many changes to the game were introduced like Coloured Clothing, White balls, Day/Night Matches and a change to the Fielding Restriction Rules and Pakistan overcame a dismal start in the tournament to win the title, again beating England in the Final. The South African cricket team participated in the event for the first time.

The 1996 World Cup was hosted by India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka and Australia made it to their another Final. Favourites to win it, Australia stopped by Arjuna Ranatunga’s Sri Lanka to win their maiden World Cup win.

1999 World Cup held in England, Australia beat Pakistan in the World Cup Final

2003 World Cup held in South Africa, Australia beat India in the Final to their second consecutive World Cup.

2007 World Cup held in West Indies, Australia beat Sri Lanka in the Final to their Third consecutive World Cup

India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh together hosted the 2011 Cricket World Cup. Pakistan was stripped of their hosting rights following the terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in 2009. India clinched their second title in 2011 and became the first country to win the final on home soil after beating Sri Lanka in the final. Australia lost their final group stage match against Pakistan on 19 March 2011, ending an unbeaten streak of 35 World Cup matches, which had begun on 23 May 1999 after their defeat by Pakistan in their Group Match.

ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 was played in Australia and New Zealand. Australia defeated New Zealand in the final at Melbourne to lift the World Cup for the Fifth time.

Year	Official Host(s)	Final venue	Result
			Winner	Runner-up
1975 Details	England	London	West Indies 291/8 (60 overs) WI won by 17 runs	Australia 274 all out (58.4 overs)
1979 Details	England	London	West Indies 286/9 (60 overs) WI won by 92 runs	England 194 all out (51 overs)
1983 Details	England	London	India 183 all out (54.4 overs) India won by 43 runs	West Indies 140 all out (52 overs)
1987 Details	India  Pakistan	Kolkata	Australia 253/5 (50 overs) Aus won by 7 runs	England 246/8 (50 overs)
1992 Details	Australia  New Zealand	Melbourne	Pakistan 249/6 (50 overs) Pak won by 22 runs	England 227 all out (49.2 overs)
1996 Details	Pakistan  India  Sri Lanka	Lahore	Sri Lanka 245/3 (46.2 overs) SL won by 7 wickets	Australia 241/7 (50 overs)
1999 Details	England  Wales	London	Australia 133/2 (20.1 overs) Aus won by 8 wickets	Pakistan 132 all out (39 overs)
2003 Details	South Africa	Johannesburg	Australia 359/2 (50 overs) Aus won by 125 runs	India 234 all out (39.2 overs)
2007 Details	West Indies	Bridgetown	Australia 281/4 (38 overs) Aus won by 53 runs (D/L)	Sri Lanka 215/8 (36 overs)
2011 Details	India  Sri Lanka  Bangladesh	Mumbai	India 277/4 (48.2 overs) India won by 6 wickets	Sri Lanka 274/6 (50 overs)
2015 Details	Australia  New Zealand	Melbourne	Australia 186/3 (33.1 overs) Aus won by 7 wickets	New Zealand 183 all out (45 overs)