Who was the biggest hero of 1975 Cricket World Cup?

Who was the biggest hero of 1975 Cricket World Cup?

1975 Cricket World Cup was being played in a new avatar.For the first time in 1975 the Cricket World Cup was held in England Cricket World Cup matches were played from June 7 to June 21 in which the eight best teams of the world were participating in which there were six teams playing test cricket ( Australia, England, India,New Zealand, Pakistan & West Indies) and two nations were participating teams like Sri Lanka and East Africa.Cricket was played in One Day format in 1975, 60 overs wert put in One Day format and a total of 15 matches were played in this tournament.

Winner of 1975 World Cup became West Indies but dominated the big tournament like World Cup New Zealand batsman Glenn Turner.Glenn Turner was born 26 May 1947 in Dunedin New Zealand. Glenn Turner was a right-handed batsman 27 February 1969 Glenn Turner made his Test debut against the West Indies at the age of 22 and 11 February made his ODI debut against Pakistan.Glenn Turner has scored 2,991 runs in his Test Career from 44.64 batting average in 41 Test matches in which his best score in 259 and has scored 1,598 runs from 47.00 batting average in 41 ODI matches in which his best score in 171*

Glenn Turner was technically a very good batsman he scored the most runs in the 1975 Cricket World Cup and was the tournament's top scorer.Glenn Turner scored 333 runs in 4 innings in which he scored two centuries in which his scored an unbeaten 171* against East Africa and played 114* unbeaten innings against the Indian team in Manchester.The only person to score two centuries in the 1975 Cricket World Cup was Glenn Turner of New Zealand and his 36 in the semi-final against West Indies helped him finish 90 runs clear of his nearest rival Dennis Amiss.

Such a great batsman is remembered as the greatest hero of the 1975 Cricket World Cup.