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Test Cricket Tours - Australia to Sri Lanka 1982-83

 

 

Tour of Sri Lanka 1982-83             Captain:  Greg Chappell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

47th Test tour

 
 

First Test-playing tour of Sri Lanka by Australia

 

 

 

 (April - May 1983)

 

 

Sri Lanka showed the progress they had made in international cricket by winning sensational victories in the first two one-day internationals of the tour, the significance of which lay in the forthcoming 1983 World Cup in England.  However, Sri Lankan hopes for the inaugural Test match were soon dashed; by winning the toss and batting for two days when the wicket was at its best, the Australians hammered them in the Test match at Kandy.

Because of a recent drought the ground staff at Kandy worked tea leaves, the residue from local plantations, into the grass-bare pitch and outfield to help preserve moisture.

Out of ten consecutive tours since his debut in New Zealand in 1976-77, this was the first that Kim Hughes had missed, allowing Greg Chappell to regain the captaincy. Hughes first captained Australia against Pakistan in Perth in 1979, and the captaincy swopped between the two men eight times. However, during the tour Greg Chappell said that, while he would be happy to continue as a player for his country a little longer, he no longer relished the pressures of leadership.

Roger Woolley became the first Tasmanian representative to tour this century, and the first Tasmania player to appear in a Test match since their admission to the Sheffield Shield.

 

 

Other Australian Tours

 

 

Previous tour

Pakistan 1982-83

 

Next tour

West Indies 1983-84

 

 

 

Next tour of Sri Lanka

1992-93

 

 

 

Members of the Test tour party  (13)

 

 

Opening batsmen:  Steve Smith, Kepler Wessels, Graeme Wood

Middle-order batsmen:  Allan Border, Greg Chappell, David Hookes, Graham Yallop

Wicket-keeper:  Roger Woolley

Spin bowlers:  Tom Hogan, Bruce Yardley.

Fast bowlers:  Rodney Hogg, Dennis Lillee, John Maguire.

 

 

Comments taken from  ……

 

 

A R Border

Q

27

LHB       SLA

ODI

 

G S Chappell

Q

34

RHB   captain

ODI

 

T G Hogan

W

26

SLA  orthodox

ODI

 

R M Hogg

S

32

RF

ODI

 

D W Hookes

S

28

RHB      vice-captain

ODI

 

D K Lillee

W

33

RF

ODI

 

J N Maguire

Q

26

RFM

ODI

 

S B Smith

N

21

RHB  opener

ODI

 

K C Wessels

Q

25

LHB  opener

ODI

 

G M Wood

W

26

LHB  opener

ODI

 

R D Woolley

T

28

WK

ODI

 

G N Yallop

V

30

LHB

ODI

 

B Yardley

W

35

OB

ODI

 

 

 

 

FLAG_Australia 

 

 

 

State representation

   Sheffield Shield teams

 

N   New South Wales (1)

Q  Queensland (4)

S   South Australia (2)

T   Tasmania (1)

V   Victoria (1)

W  Western Australia (4)

  

  

 

 

Average age of  team at time of first Test match     

(23 April 1983) : 

      29 yrs  2 months

 

 

 

 

 

 

Test Appearances made before the tour

 

 

Greg Chappell 81,  Lillee 64,  Border 50,  Wood 41,  Yallop 32,  Yardley 32,  Hogg 25,  Hookes 13,  Wessels 4,  Hogan 0,  Maguire 0,  Smith 0,  Woolley 0.

 

 

 

 

Tour Officials

 

H W H  ‘Bert’ Rigg

Tour manager

Dr Paul Koenig

Doctor

Fergus Nelson

Physiotherapist

 

 

 

 

 

Selectors

 

Phil Ridings (South Australia, chairman),  Alan Davidson (New South Wales),  Lawrie Sawle (Western Australia) and Ray Lindwall (Queensland) and  Greg Chappell (captain) chose the team.

Under Australian Cricket Board regulations, the serving Australian captain was also a selector.

 

 

 

 

 

Selection

The Australian Cricket Board appointed Bert Rigg of Western Australia as manager

 

Unavailable: Terry Alderman (shoulder injury), Kim Hughes and Jeff Thomson, (both their wives expecting a baby), Geoff Lawson (getting married); Rod Marsh (stated he needed to rest after an arduous season); Len Pascoe (injury).

Out of ten consecutive tours since his debut in New Zealand in 1976-77, it was the first tour that Hughes had missed.

Tour Party Announced :  3 March 1983.

Yallop gained selection for the national side for the first time since November 1981, having scored 1254 runs in the Sheffield Shield with a first-class average of 67.52.

Not selected :   John Dyson,  Robbie Kerr;  Carl Rackemann.

Lillee seemed likely to withdraw with a knee injury at one stage and Peter Clough the Tasmanian fast bowler who took 41 wickets in the first-class season was standing by, but Lillee passed his fitness test.

 

Time between selection and departure from Australia   

 38 days

(3 March - 10 April)

 

 

 

Travel

 

Sydney  Q Singapore   Q  Colombo

 

 

On Sunday 10 April 1983 the team flew from Sydney via Perth to Singapore.

On the second leg of their journey they flew out of  Singapore and arrived in Colombo late on Monday night 11 April 1983. Hundreds of fans behind wire fences witnessed their arrival at the airport as the players boarded a coach for the Lanka Oberoi hotel in Colombo.

 

Time spent in Sri Lanka

   20 days

(11 April -  1 May)

 

 

 

 

On-tour selection panel

 

Greg Chappell (captain),  David Hookes (vice-captain),  Allan Border.

 

 

 

 

Reinforcements

 

None. 

 

 

 

 

 

Fixtures/Results

 

§ Colombo (PSS)

Sri Lanka (1st ODI)

Lost 2 w

§  Colombo (PSS)

Sri Lanka (2nd ODI)

Lost 4 w

Moratuwa

Sri Lanka Board President's XI

Drawn

KANDY

SRI LANKA  Test Match

WON inns 38 r

§ Colombo (SSC)

Sri Lanka (3rd ODI)

No result

§ Colombo (SSC)

Sri Lanka (4th ODI)

No result

ϯ  Colombo (SSC)

Sri Lanka (exhibition match)

Not known

 

(PSS) P Saravannamuttu Stadium, Colombo;   (SSC)  Sinhalese Sports Club

 

† not first-class

 

§  one-day international

 

 

Time spent in Sri Lanka before First Test: 

  11 days

(11 April - 22 April)

 

 

 

 

 

Test appearances on tour

 

1 -   Border,  GS Chappell,  Hogan,  Hogg,  Hookes,  Lillee,  Wessels,  Wood,  Woolley,  Yallop,  Yardley.

0 -   Maguire, Smith.

 

 

 

 

 

Highlights

 

   David Hookes scored his maiden Test century, 143 not out in Kandy.

 

 

 

 

 

Tour Summary

 

 

P

W

L

D/NR

Aban

Test Matches

1

1

0

0

-

Other first-class matches

1

0

0

1

-

Minor matches

1

-

-

-

-

One-day internationals

4

0

2

2

-

All Matches

7

1

2

3

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Return to Australia

 

Colombo    Q  Sydney

 

 

A CANZA (Ceylon, Australia, New Zealand Association dinner dance was held at Hotel Oberoi to bid farewell to the Australians and mark the end of Chappell's career as captain.

The team left for home from Colombo at noon on Sunday 1 May 1983 and arrived home in Sydney on Monday.

 

Time away from Australia    22 days  

(10 April to 2 May 1983)

 

 

 

 

Finances

 

 

 

 

 

Written accounts of the tour

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Postscript

 

 

 

 



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