Sri Lankan cricket team in Australia and New Zealand in 1982–83
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The Sri Lankan national cricket team toured Australia and New Zealand in February and March 1983 and played a two-match Test series against the New Zealand national cricket team. New Zealand won the series 2–0. New Zealand were captained by Geoff Howarth and Sri Lanka by Somachandra de Silva. In addition, the teams played a three-match series of Limited Overs Internationals (LOI) which New Zealand won 3–0. The Australian leg of the tour consisted of two first-class matches but no Tests.[1]
One Day Internationals (ODIs) edit
New Zealand won the Rothmans Cup 3–0.
1st ODI edit
2 March 1983
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- Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.
- RG de Alwis, ERNS Fernando, Y Goonasekera and MD Wettimuny (all SL) made their Test debuts.
2nd ODI edit
3rd ODI edit
20 March 1983
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- New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat.
- S Jeganathan (SL) made his ODI debut.
Test series summary edit
First Test edit
4–6 March 1983
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- Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to field.
- The match was scheduled for five days but completed in three.
- JJ Crowe (NZ), and RG de Alwis, ERNS Fernando, Y Goonasekera, S Jeganathan, VB John, RJ Ratnayake and MD Wettimuny (all SL) made their Test debuts.
Second Test edit
References edit
- ^ "Sri Lanka in Australia and New Zealand 1983". CricketArchive. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
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