This is a list of squads named for the seventh edition of Cricket World Cup (2003 Cricket World Cup), held in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya between 9 February and 23 March 2003. The tournament saw 14 teams selected and placed in two groups. Each country was required to submit a final list of 15 players by 31 December 2002. An injured player could be replaced at any time up until the end of the tournament.^[1] Replacement players who were not in the original 15-man squad are indicated in italics.

Group A [edit]

Australia [edit]

Australia announced its squad for the 2003 World Cup on 31 December 2002.^[2] Australia made three replacements in the squad - Ian Harvey replacing Shane Watson on 25 January 2003,^[3] Nathan Hauritz replacing Shane Warne on 24 February 2003,^[4] and Nathan Bracken replacing Jason Gillespie on 5 March 2003.^[5]
Coach: John Buchanan

Name Date of birth Batting Bowling ODIs[6] Domestic team Ricky Ponting (c) 19 December 1974 RHB Right arm medium 157 Tasmania Michael Bevan 8 May 1970 LHB Slow Left Arm Chinaman 196 New South Wales Andy Bichel 27 August 1970 RHB Right arm fast medium 38 Queensland Nathan Bracken 12 September 1977 RHB left arm fast medium 11 New South Wales Adam Gilchrist (wk) 14 November 1971 LHB off spin 152 Western Australia Jason Gillespie 19 April 1975 RHB Right arm fast 46 South Australia Ian Harvey 10 April 1972 RHB Right arm medium 43 Victoria Nathan Hauritz 18 October 1981 RHB Right arm off spin 5 Queensland Matthew Hayden 29 October 1971 LHB Right arm medium 54 Queensland Brad Hogg 6 February 1971 LHB Slow Left Arm Chinaman 15 Western Australia Brett Lee 8 November 1976 RHB Right arm fast 55 New South Wales Darren Lehmann 5 February 1970 LHB Slow left arm orthodox 85 South Australia Jimmy Maher 27 February 1974 LHB Right arm medium 19 Queensland Damien Martyn 21 October 1971 RHB Right arm medium 113 Western Australia Glenn McGrath 9 February 1970 RHB Right arm fast medium 168 New South Wales Andrew Symonds 9 June 1975 RHB Right arm fast medium/off-spin 54 Queensland Shane Warne 13 September 1969 RHB Right arm leg spin 193 Victoria

England [edit]

The English squad for the 2003 Cricket World Cup was announced on 31 December 2002.^[7]
Coach: Duncan Fletcher

Name Date of birth Batting Bowling style ODIs[6] Domestic team Nasser Hussain (c) 28 March 1968 RHB Right arm leg spin 84 Essex James Anderson 30 July 1982 LHB Right arm fast medium 9 Lancashire Ian Blackwell 10 June 1978 LHB Slow left arm orthodox 12 Somerset Andrew Caddick 21 November 1968 RHB Right arm fast medium 49 Somerset Paul Collingwood 26 May 1976 RHB Right arm fast medium 33 Durham Andrew Flintoff 6 December 1977 RHB Right arm fast 47 Lancashire Ashley Giles 19 March 1973 RHB Slow left arm orthodox 22 Warwickshire Steve Harmison 23 October 1978 RHB Right arm fast 5 Durham Matthew Hoggard 31 December 1976 RHB Right arm fast medium 20 Yorkshire Ronnie Irani 26 October 1971 RHB Right arm medium 29 Essex Nick Knight 28 November 1969 LHB Right arm medium 95 Warwickshire Alec Stewart (wk) 8 April 1963 RHB Right arm medium 165 Surrey Marcus Trescothick 25 December 1975 LHB Right arm medium 56 Somerset Michael Vaughan 29 October 1974 RHB Right arm off spin 21 Yorkshire Craig White 16 December 1969 RHB Right arm fast medium 46 Yorkshire

India [edit]

Coach: John Wright

Name Date of birth Batting Bowling style ODIs[6] Domestic team Sourav Ganguly (c) 8 July 1972 LHB Right arm medium 218 Bengal Ajit Agarkar 4 December 1977 RHB Right arm fast medium 110 Mumbai Sanjay Bangar 11 October 1972 RHB Right arm medium fast 11 Railways Rahul Dravid (wk) 11 January 1973 RHB Right arm off spin 196 Karnataka Harbhajan Singh 3 July 1980 RHB Right arm off spin 63 Punjab Mohammad Kaif 1 December 1980 RHB Right arm off spin 37 Uttar Pradesh Zaheer Khan 7 October 1978 RHB Left arm fast medium 56 Baroda Anil Kumble 17 October 1970 RHB Right arm leg spin 238 Karnataka Dinesh Mongia 17 April 1977 LHB Slow left arm orthodox 32 Punjab Ashish Nehra 29 April 1979 RHB Left arm fast medium 30 Delhi Parthiv Patel (wk) 9 March 1985 LHB Unknown 1 Gujarat Virender Sehwag 20 October 1978 RHB Right arm off spin 57 Delhi Sachin Tendulkar 24 April 1973 RHB Right arm leg spin 303 Mumbai Yuvraj Singh 12 December 1981 LHB Slow left arm orthodox 59 Punjab

Namibia [edit]

Coach: Dougie Brown

Name Date of birth Batting Bowling style ODIs[6] Domestic team Deon Kotze (c) 12 September 1973 RHB Right arm off spin 0 Wanderers Jan-Berrie Burger 25 August 1981 RHB Right arm leg spin 0 Police Louis Burger 12 March 1978 RHB Right arm medium 0 United Sarel Burger 13 February 1983 RHB Right arm medium fast 0 United Morne Karg (wk) 12 July 1977 RHB Unknown 0 United Danie Keulder 2 August 1973 RHB Right arm off spin 0 Wanderers Bjorn Kotze 11 December 1978 RHB Right arm medium fast 0 Wanderers Lennie Louw 19 June 1959 RHB Slow left arm orthodox 0 CCD Johannes van der Merwe 5 February 1980 RHB Right arm off spin 0 Unknown Bryan Murgatroyd 19 October 1969 RHB Right arm medium 0 Wanderers Burton van Rooi 9 July 1982 RHB Right arm medium fast 0 CCD Melt van Schoor (wk) 8 December 1967 RHB Unknown 0 Police Gerrie Snyman 30 April 1981 RHB Right arm fast medium 0 United Stefan Swanepoel 2 December 1981 RHB Unknown 0 Wanderers Rudi van Vuuren 20 September 1972 RHB Right arm medium fast 0 Police Riaan Walters 10 August 1980 RHB Unknown 0 United

• Johannes van der Merwe replaced Riaan Walters on 28 February 2003^[8]

Netherlands [edit]

Coach: Emmerson Trotman

Name Date of birth Batting Bowling style ODIs[6] Domestic team Roland Lefebvre (c) 7 February 1963 RHB Right arm medium fast 6 VOC Rotterdam Daan van Bunge 19 October 1982 RHB Right arm leg spin 2 Voorburg CC Jacob-Jan Esmeijer 28 May 1972 RHB Slow left arm orthodox 2 Excelsior'20 Victor Grandia 10 January 1979 RHB Right arm medium 1 VRA Amsterdam Feiko Kloppenburg 19 June 1974 RHB Right arm medium 1 Rood en Wit Haarlem Tim de Leede 25 January 1968 RHB Right arm medium 7 Voorburg CC Hendrik-Jan Mol 29 March 1977 LHB Left arm medium 1 Quick Den Haag Ruud Nijman 15 June 1982 RHB Right arm medium fast 0 Hermes DVS Klaas-Jan van Noortwijk 10 July 1970 RHB Right arm medium 5 VOC Rotterdam Adeel Raja 15 August 1980 RHB Right arm off spin 2 VRA Amsterdam Edgar Schiferli 17 May 1976 RHB Right arm fast medium 2 Quick Den Haag Reinout Scholte (wk) 10 August 1967 RHB Unknown 2 VOC Rotterdam Jeroen Smits (wk) 21 June 1972 RHB Unknown 0 HCC Den Haag Nick Statham 15 March 1975 RHB Right arm off spin 0 Hermes DVS Luuk van Troost 28 September 1969 LHB Left arm medium 2 Excelsior'20 Bas Zuiderent 3 March 1977 RHB Right arm medium 7 Sussex

• Ruud Nijman replaced Victor Grandia on 21 January 2003^[9]

Pakistan [edit]

Coach: Richard Pybus

Name Date of birth Batting Bowling style ODIs[6] Domestic team Waqar Younis (c) 16 November 1971 RHB Right arm fast 256 National Bank Abdul Razzaq 2 December 1979 RHB Right arm fast medium 119 PIA Azhar Mahmood 28 February 1975 RHB Right arm fast medium 123 PIA Inzamam-ul-Haq 3 March 1970 RHB Slow left arm orthodox 284 National Bank Mohammad Sami 24 February 1981 RHB Right arm fast 18 National Bank Rashid Latif (wk) 14 October 1968 RHB Right arm leg spin 143 Allied Bank Saeed Anwar 6 September 1968 LHB Slow left arm orthodox 242 National Bank Saleem Elahi 21 November 1976 RHB Right arm off spin 36 Habib Bank Saqlain Mushtaq 29 December 1976 RHB Right arm off spin 165 PIA Shahid Afridi 1 March 1980 RHB Right arm leg spin 173 Habib Bank Shoaib Akhtar 13 August 1975 RHB Right arm fast 75 Khan Research Labs Taufeeq Umar 20 June 1981 LHB Right arm off spin 6 Habib Bank Wasim Akram 3 June 1966 LHB Left arm fast 350 PIA Younis Khan 29 November 1977 RHB Right arm leg spin 70 Habib Bank Yousuf Youhana 27 August 1974 RHB Right arm off spin 121 PIA

Mushtaq Ahmed, Moin Khan?

Zimbabwe [edit]

Coach: Geoff Marsh

Name Date of birth Batting Bowling style ODIs[6] Domestic team Heath Streak (c) 16 March 1974 RHB Right arm fast medium 149 Matabeleland Andy Blignaut 1 August 1978 LHB Right arm fast medium 16 Mashonaland Alistair Campbell 23 September 1972 LHB Right arm off spin 187 Manicaland Dion Ebrahim 7 August 1980 RHB Right arm medium 36 Mashonaland Sean Ervine 6 December 1982 LHB Right arm medium 13 Midlands Andy Flower (wk) 28 April 1968 LHB Right arm off spin 205 Mashonaland Grant Flower 20 December 1970 RHB Slow left arm orthodox 192 Mashonaland Travis Friend 7 January 1981 RHB Right arm fast medium 39 Midlands Douglas Hondo 7 July 1979 RHB Right arm fast medium 13 Mashonaland Dougie Marillier 24 April 1978 RHB Right arm off spin 35 Midlands Stuart Matsikenyeri 3 May 1983 RHB Right arm off spin 2 Manicaland Brian Murphy 1 December 1976 RHB Right arm leg spin 26 Mashonaland Henry Olonga 3 July 1976 RHB Right arm fast 48 Manicaland Tatenda Taibu (wk) 14 May 1983 RHB Right arm off spin 20 Mashonaland Mark Vermeulen 2 March 1979 RHB Right arm off spin 7 Matabeleland Guy Whittall 5 September 1972 RHB Right arm medium 141 Manicaland Craig Wishart 9 January 1974 RHB Right arm off spin 72 Midlands

• Alistair Campbell replaced Mark Vermeulen on 10 March 2003^[10]
• Stuart Matsikenyeri replaced Brian Murphy on 10 March 2003^[10]

Group B [edit]

Bangladesh [edit]

Coach: Mohsin Kamal

Name Date of birth Batting Bowling style ODIs[6] Domestic team(s) Khaled Mashud (c/wk) 8 February 1976 RHB Unknown 51 Victoria / Rajshahi Akram Khan 1 November 1968 RHB Right arm medium 38 Chittagong Al Sahariar 23 April 1978 RHB Right arm leg spin 22 Victoria / Dhaka Alok Kapali 1 January 1984 RHB Right arm leg spin 11 Victoria / Sylhet Ehsanul Haque 1 December 1979 RHB Right arm off spin 2 Mohammedan / Chittagong Habibul Bashar 17 August 1972 RHB Right arm off spin 27 Biman Hannan Sarkar 1 December 1982 RHB Right arm medium 4 Surjotorun / Barisal Khaled Mahmud 26 July 1971 RHB Right arm medium fast 34 Biman / Dhaka Manjural Islam 7 November 1979 LHB Left arm fast medium 26 Victoria / Khulna Mashrafe Mortaza 5 October 1983 RHB Right arm fast medium 3 Azad / Khulna Mohammad Ashraful 7 July 1984 RHB Right arm leg spin 11 Surjotorun / Dhaka Mohammad Rafique 5 September 1970 LHB Slow left arm orthodox 34 Mohammedan / Dhaka Sanwar Hossain 5 August 1973 RHB Right arm off spin 14 Mohammedan / Barisal Talha Jubair 10 December 1985 RHB Right arm medium fast 4 Kalabagan / Dhaka Tapash Baisya 15 December 1982 RHB Right arm fast medium 10 Mohammedan / Sylhet Tushar Imran 20 December 1983 RHB Right arm medium 13 City Club / Khulna

Mushfiqur Rahman, Javed Omar, Manjural Ishlam Rana?

• Akram Khan replaced Mashrafe Mortaza on 19 February 2003^[11]

Canada [edit]

Coach: Gus Logie

Name Date of birth Batting Bowling style ODIs[6] Domestic team Joe Harris (c) 16 August 1965 RHB Right arm off spin 0 Toronto Ashish Bagai (wk) 26 January 1982 RHB Unknown 0 Toronto Ian Billcliff 26 October 1972 RHB Right arm medium 0 Vikings Desmond Chumney 8 January 1968 RHB Right arm off spin 0 Victoria Park Austin Codrington 22 August 1975 RHB Right arm medium fast 0 Overseas John Davison 9 May 1970 RHB Right arm off spin 0 South Australia Nicholas de Groot 22 October 1975 RHB Right arm medium 0 Vikings Nicholas Ifill 24 November 1968 RHB Right arm medium 0 Victoria Park Davis Joseph 31 July 1963 RHB Right arm medium fast 0 Victoria Park Ishwar Maraj 26 January 1969 LHB Right arm off spin 0 Overseas Ashish Patel 31 July 1975 RHB Right arm medium 0 Quebec Abdool Samad (wk) 3 May 1979 RHB Right arm off spin 0 Cavaliers Fazil Samad 6 April 1975 RHB Right arm off spin 0 Cavaliers Barry Seebaran 12 September 1972 RHB Slow left arm orthodox 0 Richmond Sanjayan Thuraisingam 11 September 1969 RHB Right arm fast medium 0 Toronto

Kenya [edit]

Coach: Sandeep Patil

Name Date of birth Batting Bowling style ODIs[6] Domestic team Steve Tikolo (c) 25 June 1971 RHB Right arm medium 51 Swamibapa, Nairobi Joseph Angara 8 November 1971 RHB Right arm medium 15 Swamibapa, Nairobi Aasif Karim 15 December 1963 RHB Slow left arm orthodox 30 Jaffrey, Mombasa Hitesh Modi 13 October 1971 LHB Right arm off spin 41 Nairobi Gymkhana, Kisumu Collins Obuya 27 July 1981 RHB Right arm leg spin 16 Ruaraka, Nairobi David Obuya (wk) 14 August 1979 RHB Unknown 16 Ruaraka, Nairobi Thomas Odoyo 12 May 1978 RHB Right arm medium fast 51 Nairobi Gymkhana, Nairobi Maurice Odumbe 15 June 1969 RHB Right arm off spin 50 Aga Khan, Nairobi Peter Ongondo 10 February 1977 RHB Right arm medium 8 Swamibapa, Nairobi Kennedy Otieno (wk) 11 March 1972 RHB Unknown 49 Ruaraka, Nairobi Brijal Patel 14 November 1977 RHB Slow left arm orthodox 13 Premier, Nairobi Ravindu Shah 28 August 1972 RHB Right arm medium 33 Nairobi Gymkhana, Nairobi Martin Suji 2 June 1971 RHB Right arm medium fast 49 Aga Khan, Nairobi Tony Suji 5 February 1976 RHB Right arm medium 35 Aga Khan, Nairobi Alpesh Vadher 7 September 1974 RHB Unknown 18 Premier, Nairobi

Jimmy Kamande?

New Zealand [edit]

Coach: Denis Aberhart

Name Date of birth Batting Bowling style ODIs[6] Domestic team Stephen Fleming (c) 1 April 1973 LHB Right arm medium 189 Wellington Andre Adams 17 July 1975 RHB Right arm fast medium 20 Auckland Nathan Astle 15 September 1971 RHB Right arm medium 167 Canterbury Shane Bond 7 June 1975 RHB Right arm fast 18 Canterbury Chris Cairns 13 June 1970 RHB Right arm fast medium 154 Canterbury Chris Harris 20 November 1969 LHB Right Arm Medium 219 Canterbury Brendon McCullum (wk) 27 September 1981 RHB Right Arm Medium 14 Otago Craig McMillan 13 September 1976 RHB Right arm medium 124 Canterbury Kyle Mills 15 March 1979 RHB Right arm fast medium 16 Auckland Jacob Oram 28 July 1978 LHB Right arm fast medium 29 Central Districts Mathew Sinclair 9 November 1975 RHB Right arm medium 32 Central Districts Scott Styris 10 July 1975 RHB Right arm medium 51 Northern Districts Daryl Tuffey 11 June 1978 RHB Right arm fast medium 44 Northern Districts Daniel Vettori 27 January 1979 LHB Slow left arm orthodox 99 Northern Districts Lou Vincent (wk) 11 November 1978 RHB Right arm medium 47 Auckland

Paul Wiseman?

South Africa [edit]

Coach: Eric Simons

Name Date of birth Batting Bowling style ODIs[6] Domestic team Shaun Pollock (c) 16 July 1973 RHB Right arm fast medium 180 KwaZulu-Natal Nicky Boje 20 March 1973 LHB Slow left arm orthodox 85 Free State Mark Boucher (wk) 6 December 1976 RHB Right arm medium 137 Border Boeta Dippenaar 14 June 1977 RHB Right arm off spin 50 Free State Allan Donald 20 October 1966 RHB Right arm fast 161 Free State Herschelle Gibbs 23 February 1974 RHB Right arm medium 117 Western Province Andrew Hall 31 July 1975 RHB Right arm fast medium 26 Northerns Jacques Kallis 16 October 1975 RHB Right arm fast medium 168 Western Province Gary Kirsten 23 November 1967 LHB Right arm off spin 179 Western Province Lance Klusener 4 September 1971 LHB Right arm fast medium 149 KwaZulu-Natal Charl Langeveldt 17 December 1974 RHB Right arm fast medium 3 Boland Makhaya Ntini 6 July 1977 RHB Right arm fast 62 Border Robin Peterson 4 August 1979 LHB Slow left arm orthodox 6 Eastern Province Jonty Rhodes 27 July 1969 RHB Right arm medium 243 KwaZulu-Natal Graeme Smith 1 February 1981 LHB Right arm off spin 19 Western Province Monde Zondeki 25 July 1982 RHB Right arm fast 2 Border

• Graeme Smith replaced Jonty Rhodes on 13 February 2003^[12]

Paul Adams?

Sri Lanka [edit]

Coach: Dav Whatmore

Name Date of birth Batting Bowling style ODIs[6] Domestic team Sanath Jayasuriya (c) 30 June 1969 LHB Slow left arm orthodox 287 Bloomfield Russel Arnold 25 October 1973 LHB Right arm off spin 109 Nondescripts Marvan Atapattu 22 November 1970 RHB Right arm leg spin 180 Sinhalese SC Charitha Buddhika 22 August 1980 RHB Right arm medium fast 14 Panadura Aravinda de Silva 17 October 1965 RHB Right arm off spin 298 Nondescripts Dilhara Fernando 19 July 1979 RHB Right arm fast 45 Sinhalese SC Pulasthi Gunaratne 27 September 1973 RHB Right arm fast medium 17 Tamil Union Avishka Gunawardene 26 May 1977 LHB Unknown 40 Sinhalese SC Mahela Jayawardene 27 May 1977 RHB Right arm medium 131 Sinhalese SC Jehan Mubarak 10 January 1981 LHB Right arm off spin 5 Colombo Muttiah Muralitharan 17 April 1972 RHB Right arm off spin 203 Tamil Union Prabath Nissanka 25 October 1980 RHB Right arm medium fast 11 Bloomfield Kumar Sangakkara (wk) 27 October 1977 LHB Right arm off spin 75 Nondescripts Hashan Tillakaratne 14 July 1967 LHB Right arm off spin 188 Nondescripts Chaminda Vaas 27 January 1974 LHB Left arm fast medium 210 Colts

Upul Chandana, Kumar Dharmasena?

West Indies [edit]

Coach: Roger Harper

• Marlon Samuels was replaced by Ryan Hinds on 29 January 2003,^[13] but was reinstated on 8 February 2003^[14]

References and notes [edit]

External links [edit]

• 2003 World Cup squads - ESPNcricinfo
• Squads & Player Profiles - BBC Sport