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This is a list of cricketers who represented their country at the [[1987 Cricket World Cup]] in [[India]] and [[Pakistan]] which took place from 9 October 1987 to 8 November 1987. The oldest player at the 1987 Cricket World Cup was [[John Traicos]] (40) of Zimbabwe while the youngest player was [[Ijaz Ahmed (cricketer)|Ijaz Ahmed]] (19) of Pakistan.  
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=={{Flagicon|Australia}} Australia==
Coach: {{flagicon|AUS}} [[Bob Simpson (cricketer)|Bob Simpson]]
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! width="25%" |Player
!width="15%"|Date of Birth
!width="8%"|Matches
!width="12%"|Batting style
!width="20%"|Bowling style
!width="20%"|[[First class cricket|First class]] team
|-
| [[Allan Border]] ([[captain (cricket)|c]])
| 27 July 1955
| 153
| Left hand
| Left arm [[orthodox spin]]
| {{Cr-Aus|QLD}}
|-
|[[David Boon]]
|29 December 1960
| 40
|Right hand
|Right hand off-spin
| {{Cr-Aus|TAS}}
|-
|[[Greg Dyer]] ([[wicket-keeper|wk]])
|16 March 1959
| 4
|Right hand
|Wicket-keeper
| {{Cr-Aus|NSW}}
|-
|[[Dean Jones (cricketer)|Dean Jones]]
| 24 March 1961 
| 45
|Right hand
|Right arm [[off spin]]
| {{Cr-Aus|Vic}}
|-
|[[Geoff Marsh]]
| 31 December 1958
| 37
| Right hand
| Right arm [[off-spin]]
| {{Cr-Aus|WA}}
|-
|[[Tim May]]
| 26 January 1962 
| 0
|Right hand
|Right-arm offbreak
| {{Cr-Aus|SA}}
|-
|[[Craig McDermott]]
|14 April 1965
| 39
|Right hand
|Right-arm [[Fast bowling|fast]]
| {{Cr-Aus|QLD}}
|-
|[[Tom Moody]]
|2 October 1965
| 0
|Right hand
|Right-arm medium
| {{Cr-Aus|WA}}
|-
|[[Simon O'Donnell]]
|26 January 1963
| 37
|Right hand
|Right-arm fast-medium
| {{Cr-Aus|Vic}}
|-
|[[Bruce Reid]]
|14 March 1963
| 33
|Left hand
|Left-arm fast-medium
| {{Cr-Aus|WA}}
|-
|[[Peter Taylor (Australian cricketer)|Peter Taylor]]
|22 August 1956
| 12
|Left hand
|Right-arm offbreak
|{{Cr-Aus|NSW}}
|-
|[[Mike Veletta]]
|30 October 1963
| 2
|Right hand
|<nowiki>-</nowiki>
| {{Cr-Aus|WA}}
|-
|[[Steve Waugh]]
|2 June 1965
| 39
|Right hand
|Right-arm [[Medium pace bowling|medium]]
| {{Cr-Aus|NSW}}
|-
|[[Andrew Zesers]]
|11 March 1967
| 0
| Right hand 
|Right-arm medium-fast
| {{Cr-Aus|SA}}
|-
|}

=={{Flagicon|England}} England==
*Coach: {{flagicon|ENG}} [[Micky Stewart]]

{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Player
!Date of Birth
!Batting style
!Bowling style
!First class team
|-
|[[Mike Gatting]] ([[captain (cricket)|c]])
|6 June 1957
|Right hand
|Right arm [[Fast bowling|medium]]
|{{flagicon|England}} [[Middlesex County Cricket Club|Middlesex]]
|-
|[[Bill Athey]]
|27 September 1957
| Right hand
| Right arm medium 
|{{flagicon|England}} [[Gloucestershire County Cricket Club|Gloucestershire]]
|-
|[[Chris Broad (cricketer)|Chris Broad]]
|29 September 1957
|Left hand
|Right arm medium
|{{flagicon|England}} [[Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club|Nottinghamshire]]
|-
|[[Phillip DeFreitas]]
|18 February 1966
| Right hand
| Right arm fast-medium
|{{flagicon|England}} [[Leicestershire County Cricket Club|Leicestershire]]
|-
|[[Paul Downton]] ([[wicket-keeper|wk]])
|4 April 1957
|Right hand 
|Wicket-keeper
|{{flagicon|England}} [[Middlesex County Cricket Club|Middlesex]]
|-
|[[John Emburey]]
|20 August 1952
|Right hand
|Right arm off break
|{{flagicon|England}} [[Middlesex County Cricket Club|Middlesex]]
|-
|[[Neil Foster]]
|6 May 1962
|Right-hand
|Right-arm fast medium
|{{flagicon|England}}[[Essex County Cricket Club|Essex]]
|-
|[[Graham Gooch]]
|23 July 1953
|Right hand
|Right arm [[Fast bowling|medium]]
|{{flagicon|England}} [[Essex County Cricket Club|Essex]]
|-
|[[Eddie Hemmings (cricketer)|Eddie Hemmings]]
|20 February 1949
|Right hand
|Right-arm offbreak
|{{flagicon|England}}[[Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club|Nottinghamshire]]
|-
|[[Allan Lamb]]
|20 June 1954 
|Right-hand 
|Right-arm medium
|{{flagicon|England}}[[Northamptonshire County Cricket Club|Northamptonshire]]
|-
|[[Derek Pringle]]
|18 September 1958
|Right hand
|Right-arm medium
|{{flagicon|England}} [[Essex County Cricket Club|Essex]]
|-
|[[Tim Robinson (English cricketer)|Tim Robinson]]
|21 November 1958
|Right hand
|Right-arm medium
|{{flagicon|England}} [[Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club|Nottinghamshire]]
|-
|[[Gladstone Small]]
|18 October 1961
|Right arm
|Right arm fast-medium 
|{{flagicon|England}}[[Warwickshire County Cricket Club|Warwickshire]]
|}

=={{Flagicon|India}} India==
*Manager: {{flagicon|India}} [[PR Man Singh]]

{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Player
!Date of Birth
!Batting style
!Bowling style
!First class team
|-
|[[N Kapil Dev|Kapil Dev]] ([[captain (cricket)|c]])
|6 January 1959
|Right hand
|Right arm fast-medium
|{{flagicon|India
}} [[Haryana cricket team|Haryana]]
|-
|[[Mohammad Azharuddin]]
|8 February 1963
|Right hand
|Right-arm [[Seam bowling|medium]]
|{{flagicon|India
}} [[Hyderabad cricket team|Hyderabad]]
|-
|[[Roger Binny]]
|19 July 1955
|Right hand
|Right arm fast-medium
|{{flagicon|India
}} [[Karnataka cricket team|Karnataka]]
|-
|[[Sunil Gavaskar]]
|10 July 1949
|Right hand
|Right arm medium
Right arm offbreak
|{{flagicon|India
}} [[Mumbai cricket team|Bombay]]
|-
|[[Maninder Singh (cricketer)|Maninder Singh]]
|13 June 1965
|Right hand
|Slow left-arm orthodox
|{{flagicon|India
}} [[Delhi cricket team|Delhi]]
|-
|[[Kiran More]] ([[wicket-keeper|wk]])
|4 September 1962
|Right hand
|Right arm [[leg spin]]
Wicket-keeper
|{{flagicon|India
}} [[Baroda cricket team|Baroda]]
|-
|[[Chandrakant Pandit]]
|30 September 1961
|Right hand
|Wicket-keeper
|{{flagicon|India
}} [[Mumbai cricket team|Bombay]]
|-
|[[Manoj Prabhakar]]
|15 April 1963
|Right hand
|Right-arm medium pace
|{{flagicon|India
}} [[Delhi cricket team|Delhi]]
|-
|[[Chetan Sharma]]
|3 January 1966
|Right hand
|Right arm [[Fast bowling|fast-medium]]
|{{flagicon|India
}} [[Haryana cricket team|Haryana]]
|-
|[[Ravi Shastri]]
|27 May 1962
|Right hand
|Slow left-arm orthodox
|{{flagicon|India
}} [[Mumbai cricket team|Bombay]]
|-
|[[Navjot Singh Sidhu]]
|20 October 1963
|Right hand
|Right-arm [[Seam bowling|medium]]
|{{flagicon|India
}} [[Punjab cricket team (India)|Punjab]]
|-
|[[Laxman Sivaramakrishnan]]
|31 December 1965
|Right hand
|Right-arm leg break

Right-arm googly
|{{flagicon|India
}} [[Tamil Nadu cricket team|Tamil Nadu]]
|-
|[[Krishnamachari Srikkanth]]
|21 December 1959
|Right hand
|Right-arm medium
Right-arm offbreak
|{{flagicon|India
}} [[Tamil Nadu cricket team|Tamil Nadu]]
|-
|[[Dilip Vengsarkar]] ([[Captain (cricket)#Vice-captain|vc]])
|6 April 1956
|Right hand
|Right arm medium
|{{flagicon|India
}} [[Mumbai cricket team|Bombay]]
|}

=={{Flagicon|New Zealand}} New Zealand==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Player !! Date of birth !! Batting style !! Bowling style !! First class team
|-
|[[Jeff Crowe]] ([[captain (cricket)|c]])
|14 September 1958
|Right-handed
|Right arm, medium pace
|{{flagicon|NZL
}} [[Auckland cricket team|Auckland]]
|-
|[[Stephen Boock]]
|20 September 1951
|Right-hand
|Slow left-arm orthodox
|{{flagicon|NZL
}} [[Canterbury cricket team|Canterbury]]
|-
|[[John Bracewell]]
| 15 April 1958 ||Right-hand
|Right arm off break
|{{flagicon|NZL
}} [[Auckland cricket team|Auckland]]
|-
|[[Ewen Chatfield]]
|3 July 1950
|Right hand
|Right arm [[Fast bowling|medium-fast]]
|{{flagicon|NZL
}} [[Wellington cricket team|Wellington]]
|-
|[[Martin Crowe]]
|22 September 1962
|Right-hand
|Right-arm medium
|{{flagicon|NZL
}} [[Central Districts cricket team|Central Districts]]
|-
|[[Phil Horne]]
|21 January 1960
|Left-hand
|–
|{{flagicon|NZL
}} [[Auckland cricket team|Auckland]]
|-
|[[Andrew Jones (cricketer, born 1959)|Andrew Jones]]
|9 May 1959
|Right-hand
|Right-arm [[off-break]]
|{{flagicon|NZL
}} [[Wellington cricket team|Wellington]]
|-
|[[Danny Morrison (cricketer)|Danny Morrison]]
|3 February 1966
|Right-hand
|Right-arm fast-medium
|{{flagicon|NZL
}} [[Auckland cricket team|Auckland]]
|-
|[[Dipak Patel (cricketer, born 1958)|Dipak Patel]]
|25 October 1958
|Right-hand
|Right-arm [[off-break]]
|{{flagicon|NZL
}} [[Auckland cricket team|Auckland]]
|-
|[[Ken Rutherford (cricketer)|Ken Rutherford]]
|26 October 1965 
|Right-hand
|Right arm [[Medium pace bowling|medium]]
|{{flagicon|NZL
}} [[Otago cricket team|Otago]]
|-
|[[Ian Smith (New Zealand cricketer)|Ian Smith]] ([[wicket-keeper|wk]])
|28 February 1957
| Right hand || Wicket-keeper ||{{flagicon|NZL
}} [[Auckland cricket team|Auckland]]
|-
|[[Martin Snedden]]
|23 November 1958
|Left-hand
|Right-arm medium-fast
|{{flagicon|NZL
}} [[Auckland cricket team|Auckland]]
|-
|[[Willie Watson (New Zealand cricketer)|Willie Watson]]
|31 August 1965
|Right-hand
|Right-arm fast-medium
|{{flagicon|NZL
}} [[Auckland cricket team|Auckland]]
|-
|[[John Wright (cricketer, born 1954)|John Wright]]||5 July 1954
|Left hand
|Right arm [[Fast bowling|medium]]
|{{flagicon|NZL
}} [[Northern Districts men's cricket team|Northern Districts]]
|}

=={{Flagicon|Pakistan}} Pakistan==
{| class="wikitable"  
! width="25%" |Player
! width="18%"|Date of Birth
! width="12%" |Batting style
! width="20%" |Bowling style
! width="25%"|[[First class cricket|First class]] team
|-
|[[Imran Khan]] ([[Captain (cricket)|c]])
|5 October 1952 
|Right hand
|Right arm fast
|{{flagicon|England}} [[Sussex cricket team|Sussex]]
|-
|[[Abdul Qadir (cricketer)|Abdul Qadir]]
|15 September 1955
|Right-hand
|Right-arm [[leg spin]]
|{{flagicon|Pakistan}} [[Habib Bank Limited cricket team|Habib Bank]]
|-
|[[Ijaz Ahmed (cricketer)|Ijaz Ahmed]]
|20 September 1968
|Right-hand
|Left-arm medium
|{{flagicon|Pakistan}} [[Habib Bank Limited cricket team|Habib Bank]]
|-  
|[[Javed Miandad]]
|12 June 1957
|Right hand
|Right arm legbreak
|{{flagicon|Pakistan}} [[Habib Bank Limited cricket team|Habib Bank]]
|-
|[[Mansoor Akhtar]]
|6 September 1962
|Right-hand
|Right-arm offspin
|{{flagicon|Pakistan}}[[Pakistan Automobiles Corporation cricket team|PAC]]
|-
|[[Manzoor Elahi]]
|15 April 1963
|Right-hand
|Right-arm fast-medium
|{{flagicon|Pakistan}} [[Multan cricket team|Multan]]
|-  
|[[Mudassar Nazar]]
|6 April 1956
|Right hand
|Right arm medium 
|{{flagicon|Pakistan}}[[Lahore cricket teams|Lahore]]
|-
|[[Rameez Raja]]
|14 August 1962
|Right hand
|Right arm leg-break
|{{flagicon|Pakistan}} [[Lahore cricket teams|Lahore]] 
|-  
|[[Saleem Jaffar]]
|19 November 1962
|Right-hand
|Left-arm fast-medium
|{{flagicon|Pakistan}} [[Karachi cricket team|Karachi]]
|-  
|[[Saleem Malik]]
|16 April 1963
|Right-hand
|Right arm [[off break]] / [[Fast bowling#Categorisation of fast bowling|slow-medium]]
|{{flagicon|Pakistan}}[[Lahore cricket teams|Lahore]]
|-
|[[Saleem Yousuf]] [[Wicket-keeper|(wk)]]
|7 December 1959
| Right hand
|Wicket-keeper
|{{flagicon|Pakistan}}[[Karachi cricket team|Karachi]]
|-
|[[Shoaib Mohammad]]
|8 January 1961
|Right hand
|Right arm offbreak
|{{flagicon|Pakistan}}[[Karachi cricket team|Karachi]]
|-
|[[Tauseef Ahmed]]
|10 May 1958
|Right hand
|Right arm offbreak
|{{flagicon|Pakistan}}[[Karachi cricket team|Karachi]]
|-
|[[Wasim Akram]]
|3 June 1966
|Left hand
|Left-arm fast
|{{flagicon|Pakistan}}[[Lahore cricket team|Lahore]]
|-
|}

=={{Flagicon|Sri Lanka}} Sri Lanka==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! width="25%" |Player
!width="18%"|Date of Birth
!width="12%"|Batting style
!width="20%"|Bowling style
!width="25%"|[[First class cricket|First class]] team
|-
| [[Duleep Mendis]] ([[captain (cricket)|c]])
| 25 August 1952
| Right hand
| –
| {{flagicon|Sri Lanka}} [[Sinhalese Sports Club|Sinhalese SC]]
|-
|[[Don Anurasiri]] 
| 25 February 1966 
| Right-hand
| Slow left-arm orthodox
|{{flagicon|Sri Lanka}} [[Panadura Sports Club|Panadura SC]]
|-
|[[Ashantha de Mel]]
| 9 May 1959
| Right-hand bat
| Right-arm medium-fast
|{{flagicon|Sri Lanka}} –
|-
|[[Aravinda de Silva]]
| 17 October 1965
| Right hand
| Right arm offbreak
| {{flagicon|Sri Lanka}} [[Nondescripts Cricket Club|Nondescripts]]
|-
| [[Roy Dias]]
| 18 October 1952
| Right hand
| Right-arm [[offbreak]]
| {{flagicon|Sri Lanka}} [[Colombo Cricket Club|Colombo CC]]
|-
|[[Asanka Gurusinha]]
| 16 September 1966
| Left-hand 
| Right-arm medium
|{{flagicon|Sri Lanka}} [[Nondescripts Cricket Club|Nondescripts]]
|- 
|[[Sridharan Jeganathan]]
| 11 July 1951
| Right hand
| Slow left-arm orthodox
| {{flagicon|Sri Lanka}} [[Nondescripts Cricket Club|Nondescripts]]
|-
|[[Vinothen John]]
| 27 May 1960
| Right-hand 
| Right-arm medium-fast
|{{flagicon|Sri Lanka}} [[Moratuwa Cricket Club|Moratuwa CC]]
|-
|[[Brendon Kuruppu]] ([[wicket-keeper|wk]])
| 5 January 1962 
| Right-handed
| Wicket-keeper
|{{flagicon|Sri Lanka}} [[Burgher Recreation Club|Burgher RC]]
|-
| [[Ranjan Madugalle]]
| 22 April 1959
| Right hand
| Right-arm [[offbreak]]
| {{flagicon|Sri Lanka}} [[Nondescripts Cricket Club|Nondescripts]]
|-
|[[Roshan Mahanama]]
| 31 May 1966
| Right-hand
| -
| {{flagicon|Sri Lanka}} [[Colombo Cricket Club|Colombo CC]]
|-
| [[Arjuna Ranatunga]]
| 1 December 1963
| Left-hand
| Right-arm medium
| {{flagicon|Sri Lanka}} [[Sinhalese Sports Club|Sinhalese CC]]
|-
|[[Rumesh Ratnayake]]
| 2 January 1964 
| Right-hand bat
| Right-arm fast-medium
|{{flagicon|Sri Lanka}} [[Nondescripts Cricket Club|Nondescripts]]
|-
|[[Ravi Ratnayeke]]
| 2 May 1960
| Left-handed
| Right-arm fast medium
| {{flagicon|Sri Lanka}} [[Kandurata cricket team|Colombo CC]]
|-
|}

=={{Flagicon|West Indies}} West Indies==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! width="25%" |Player
!width="18%"|Date of Birth
!width="12%"|Batting style
!width="20%"|Bowling style
!width="25%"|[[First class cricket|First class]] team
|-
|[[Viv Richards]] ([[captain (cricket)|c]])
| 7 March 1952
| Right-hand
| Right-arm [[Medium pace bowling|medium]]/[[offbreak]]
| {{flagicon|Antigua and Barbuda}}Leeward Islands
|-
|[[Eldine Baptiste]]
| 12 March 1960
| Right hand
|  Right-arm fast-medium
| {{flagicon|Antigua and Barbuda}}Leeward Islands
|-
|[[Winston Benjamin]]
| 31 December 1964
| Right hand
| Right-arm fast
| {{flagicon|Antigua and Barbuda}}Leeward Islands
|-
|[[Carlisle Best]]
| 14 May 1959
| Right hand
| Right-arm off break/medium pace
| {{flagicon|Barbados}}Barbados
|-
| [[Jeff Dujon]] ([[wicket-keeper|wk]])
| 28 May 1956
| Right-hand
| Wicket-keeper
| {{flagicon|Jamaica}}Jamaica
|-
|[[Roger Harper]]
| 17 March 1963
| Right hand 
| Right arm offbreak
| {{flagicon|Guyana}}Guyana
|-
|[[Desmond Haynes]]
| 15 February 1956
| Right hand
| Right-arm [[legbreak]]/[[medium pace]]
| {{flagicon|Barbados}}Barbados
|-
|[[Carl Hooper]]
| 15 December 1966
| Right hand 
| Right arm offbreak
| {{flagicon|Guyana}}Guyana
|-
| [[Gus Logie]]
| 28 September 1960
| Right-hand
| Right-arm [[off break]]
| {{flagicon|Trinidad and Tobago}}Trinidad and Tobago
|-
|[[Patrick Patterson (cricketer)|Patrick Patterson]]
|15 September 1961
|Right  hand
|Right arm fast
|{{flagicon|Jamaica}}Jamaica
|-
|[[Richie Richardson]]
| 12 January 1962
| Right-hand
| Right-arm medium pace
| {{flagicon|Antigua and Barbuda}}Leeward Islands
|-
|[[Phil Simmons]]
| 18 April 1963 
| Right-hand
| Right-arm medium
|{{flagicon|Trinidad and Tobago}}Trinidad and Tobago
|-
|[[Courtney Walsh]]
| 30 October 1962
| Right hand
|Right-arm [[Seam bowling|fast]]
|{{flagicon|Jamaica}}Jamaica
|-
|}

=={{Flagicon|Zimbabwe}} Zimbabwe==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! width="25%" |Player
!width="18%"|Date of Birth
!width="12%"|Batting style
!width="20%"|Bowling style
|-
|[[John Traicos]] ([[captain (cricket)|c]])
| 17 May 1947
| Right-hand
| Right arm off-spin
|-
|[[Kevin Arnott (cricketer)|Kevin Arnott]]
|8 March 1961
| Right-hand
| -
|-
|[[Eddo Brandes]]
| 5 March 1963
| Right-hand
| Right arm fast
|-
| [[Robin Brown (cricketer)|Robin Brown]]
| 11 March 1951
| Right-hand
| Right-arm medium
|-
|[[Iain Butchart]]
| 9 May 1960
| Right-hand 
| Right-arm medium
|-
|[[Kevin Curran (cricketer)|Kevin Curran]]
| 7 September 1959
| Right-handed
| Right-arm [[Fast bowling|fast medium]]
|-
| [[David Houghton (cricketer)|David Houghton]] ([[wicket-keeper|wk]])
| 23 June 1957
| Right-hand 
| Right-arm off break
|-
|[[Malcolm Jarvis]]
| 6 December 1955
| Right hand
| Left-arm medium fast
|-
|[[Babu Meman]]
| 26 June 1952 
| Right-hand
| Right-arm offbreak
|-
| [[Grant Paterson]]
| 9 June 1960
| Right-hand
| Right-arm off-spin
|-
| [[Andrew Pycroft]]
| 6 June 1956
| Right-hand
| Right-arm offbreak
|-
| [[Peter Rawson]]
| 25 May 1957
| Right-hand
| Right-arm medium-fast
|-
| [[Ali Shah (cricket player)|Ali Shah]]
| 7 August 1959
| Left-hand
| Right arm medium
|-
|[[Andy Waller]]
| 25 September 1959
| Right hand
| Right-arm medium
|-
|}

==See also==
*[[1987 Cricket World Cup Final]]

==External links==
* [http://www.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/WORLD_CUPS/WC87/ 1987 Cricket World Cup]. ESPNcricinfo.

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