- Test no. 955 | 1982/83 season
- Played at Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy
- 22,23,24,26 April 1983 (5-day match)
| Australia 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| KC Wessels | c Dias b de Silva | 141 | 250 | 188 | 21 | 0 | 75.00 | |
| GM Wood | c Ratnayake b Ranatunga | 4 | 54 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 18.18 | |
| GN Yallop | lbw b de Mel | 98 | 303 | 238 | 14 | 0 | 41.17 | |
| GS Chappell* | lbw b de Mel | 66 | 163 | 103 | 7 | 0 | 64.07 | |
| DW Hookes | not out | 143 | 201 | 152 | 17 | 2 | 94.07 | |
| AR Border | not out | 47 | 145 | 88 | 2 | 0 | 53.40 | |
| Extras | (lb 11, w 1, nb 3) | 15 | ||||||
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| Total | (4 wickets dec; 131 overs) | 514 | (3.92 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat RD Woolley†, TG Hogan, B Yardley, DK Lillee, RM Hogg |
| Fall of wickets1-43 (Wood), 2-213 (Wessels), 3-290 (Yallop), 4-359 (Chappell) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| ALF de Mel | 23 | 3 | 113 | 2 | 4.91 | |||
| RJ Ratnayake | 28 | 4 | 108 | 0 | 3.85 | |||
| A Ranatunga | 19 | 2 | 72 | 1 | 3.78 | |||
| DS de Silva | 44 | 7 | 122 | 1 | 2.77 | |||
| RPW Guneratne | 17 | 1 | 84 | 0 | 4.94 |
| Sri Lanka 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| S Wettimuny | c †Woolley b Lillee | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| ERNS Fernando | c †Woolley b Hogg | 0 | 16 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| RL Dias | c Border b Lillee | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| LRD Mendis* | c Hookes b Yardley | 74 | 151 | 92 | 12 | 0 | 80.43 | |
| RS Madugalle | c & b Yardley | 9 | 48 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 27.27 | |
| A Ranatunga | c Lillee b Yardley | 90 | 174 | 120 | 16 | 0 | 75.00 | |
| DS de Silva | c Hogan b Yardley | 26 | 71 | 55 | 3 | 0 | 47.27 | |
| ALF de Mel | c Hookes b Hogan | 29 | 75 | 69 | 3 | 0 | 42.02 | |
| RG de Alwis† | c Border b Yardley | 3 | 30 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 16.66 | |
| RJ Ratnayake | c †Woolley b Border | 14 | 53 | 45 | 2 | 0 | 31.11 | |
| RPW Guneratne | not out | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | |
| Extras | (b 4, lb 5, w 1, nb 12) | 22 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 72.5 overs) | 271 | (3.72 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-1 (Wettimuny), 2-5 (Dias), 3-9 (Fernando), 4-46 (Madugalle), 5-142 (Mendis), 6-220 (de Silva), 7-224 (Ranatunga), 8-247 (de Alwis), 9-270 (de Mel), 10-271 (Ratnayake) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| DK Lillee | 19 | 3 | 67 | 2 | 3.52 | |||
| RM Hogg | 12 | 4 | 31 | 1 | 2.58 | |||
| GS Chappell | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2.00 | |||
| B Yardley | 25 | 7 | 88 | 5 | 3.52 | |||
| TG Hogan | 11 | 1 | 50 | 1 | 4.54 | |||
| AR Border | 4.5 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 2.27 |
| Sri Lanka 2nd innings (following on) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| S Wettimuny | b Hogan | 96 | 180 | 145 | 13 | 0 | 66.20 | |
| ERNS Fernando | c †Woolley b Lillee | 3 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 30.00 | |
| RL Dias | b Hogan | 10 | 52 | 37 | 1 | 0 | 27.02 | |
| RJ Ratnayake | run out | 30 | 71 | 67 | 5 | 0 | 44.77 | |
| LRD Mendis* | c Border b Yardley | 6 | 30 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 28.57 | |
| RS Madugalle | b Yardley | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| A Ranatunga | b Hogan | 32 | 72 | 64 | 2 | 1 | 50.00 | |
| DS de Silva | c †Woolley b Hogan | 5 | 13 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 38.46 | |
| ALF de Mel | c Yallop b Hogan | 0 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| RG de Alwis† | run out | 9 | 19 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| RPW Guneratne | not out | 0 | 24 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (b 6, lb 7, nb 1) | 14 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 65.2 overs) | 205 | (3.13 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-17 (Fernando), 2-59 (Dias), 3-120 (Ratnayake), 4-151 (Mendis), 5-155 (Madugalle), 6-155 (Wettimuny), 7-162 (de Silva), 8-164 (de Mel), 9-191 (de Alwis), 10-205 (Ranatunga) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| DK Lillee | 11 | 3 | 40 | 1 | 3.63 | |||
| RM Hogg | 3 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 2.33 | |||
| B Yardley | 26 | 6 | 78 | 2 | 3.00 | |||
| TG Hogan | 25.2 | 6 | 66 | 5 | 2.60 |
| Match details |
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Toss Australia, who chose to bat Series Australia won the one-off match |
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Test debuts
TG Hogan and
RD Woolley
(Australia);
RPW Guneratne
(Sri Lanka) Player of the match KC Wessels (Australia) |
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Umpires
CEB Anthony and HC Felsinger |
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Close of play 22 Apr day 1 - Australia 1st innings 258/2 (GN Yallop 91*, GS Chappell 19*) 23 Apr day 2 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 65/4 (LRD Mendis 34*, A Ranatunga 6*) 24 Apr day 3 - Sri Lanka 2nd innings 71/2 (S Wettimuny 45*, RJ Ratnayake 4*) 25 Apr rest day 26 Apr day 4 - Sri Lanka 2nd innings 205 (65.2 ov) - end of match |
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