Australian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 1982–83

Australian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 1982–83

	Sri Lanka	Australia
Dates	22 April 1983 – 26 April 1983
Captains	Duleep Mendis	Greg Chappell
Test series
Result	Australia won the 1-match series 1–0
Most runs	Arjuna Ranatunga (122)	David Hookes (143)
Most wickets	Ashantha de Mel (2)	Bruce Yardley (7)
Player of the series	Kepler Wessels (Aus)

The Australian cricket team had a short tour of Sri Lanka during the 1982-83 season. The two countries played their first ever Test together, which Australia won.^[1]

Squad

Regular players Rod Marsh, Jeff Thomson, Geoff Lawson and Kim Hughes elected not to tour. Australia picked the following squad:

Batsmen - Greg Chappell (captain), David Hookes (vice-captain), Graeme Wood, Kepler Wessels, Allan Border, Graham Yallop, Steve Smith
Fast bowlers - Dennis Lillee, Rodney Hogg, John Maguire
Spinners - Bruce Yardley, Tom Hogan
Wicketkeeper - Roger Woolley
Manager - Basil Rigg

Five of the players had not toured for Australia before: Smith, Maguire, Hogan, Wessels and Woolley. Woolley was chosen over two other Sheffield Shield wicketkeepers who had represented Australia in Test cricket, Kevin Wright and Steve Rixon.^[2]

Test series

Only Test

22 – 26 April
Scorecard

Australia	v	Sri Lanka
514/4d (131 overs) David Hookes 143* (152) Ashantha de Mel 2/113 (23 overs)		271 (72.5 overs) Arjuna Ranatunga 90 (120) Bruce Yardley 5/88 (19 overs)
		205 (65.2 overs) (f/o) Sidath Wettimuny 96 (145) Tom Hogan 5/66 (25.2 overs)

Australia won by an innings and 38 runs
Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy
Umpires: Basil Anthony (SL) and Herbi Felsinger (SL)
Player of the match: Kepler Wessels (Aus)

Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
This was the first Test match between two teams.
Roger Woolley (Aus), Tom Hogan (Aus) and Roshan Guneratne (SL) all made their debut.
David Hookes scored his first (and only) Test match century.

References

↑ Australian cricket team in Sri Lanka 1982-83 at Wisden
↑ Brian Mossop, "Woolley to Tour Sri Lanka", Sydney Morning Herald, 4 March 1983 accessed 22 July 2012

External links

Series home]
Australian cricket team in Sri Lanka 1982-83 at Cricket Archive
Australian cricket team in Sri Lanka in 1982-83 at Test Cricket Tours

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