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.

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

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.

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