Tour of Pakistan 1981-82            Captain: Bandula Warnapura
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	Sri Lanka’s first Test-playing tour   (February - April 1982)       (no previous Test tours)	This was the first tour on which Sri Lanka played Test matches. The national team (then Ceylon) had previously visited Pakistan in 1949-50, 1966-67 and in 1973-74 when Anura Tennekoon, the current manager, was captain. His assistant manager, Ranjit Fernando, was Sri Lanka's wicket-keeper in the first World Cup in 1975. This tour took place at the end of the 1981-82 season.  Earlier, Sri Lanka had played its inaugural Test match against England at Colombo. Sri Lanka lost two Tests heavily but achieved a draw in the Faisalabad match. Duleep Mendis took over the captaincy for the Faisalabad Test when skipper Warnapura injured a finger on his right hand. The outstanding contribution came from Sidath Wettimuny whose 157 was Sri Lanka's first Test century. Roy Dias, having made 98 in the same innings, then scored his own debut century (109) at Lahore. Somachandra (known as 'DS') de Silva, the leading wicket-taker on either side, captured 17 wickets in the 3-match series with his leg-spin. In doing so, he also took the first five-wicket haul in by a Sri Lankan in Test cricket, with 5 for 59 at Faisalabad.	Other Sri Lankan Tours     Next tour To India 1982-83     Next Pakistan tour 1985-86
	Members of the Test tour party (16)     Opening batsmen:   Sidath Wettimuny, Bandula Warnapura. Middle-order batsmen : Roy Dias, Duleep Mendis, Ranjith Madugalle, Arjuna Ranatunga, Bernard Perera Wicket-keepers  Mahes Goonetilleke, Rohan Jayasekera Spin bowlers : Ajit de Silva, Somachandra de Silva, Lalith Kaluperuma, Roger Wijesuriya Fast bowlers: Ashantha de Mel, Ravi Ratnayeke, Anura Ranasinghe	A L F de Mel SSC 22 type:  RFM         D S de Silva Mwa 39 LBG         G R A de Silva B'fd 29 SLA         R L Dias CCC 29 RHB         H M Goonetillake Ku 29 RHB opener        WK         R S A Jayasekera T U 24 second WK        RHB         L W Kaluperuma B'fd 32 OB         R S Madugalle NCC 22 RHB         L. R D Mendia SSC 29 RHB         vice-captain         J B N Perera Ku 25 RHB         A N Ranasinghe B'fd 25 RHB          LM         A Ranatunga SSC 18 LHB         J Ravi Ratnayeke NCC 21 RFM         B Warnapura B'fd 29 RHB opener       captain         S Wettimuny SSC 25 RHB opener         R G C E Wijesuriya SSC 22 SLA	Average age of  team at time of first Test match (5 March 1982) :   26 yrs 10 months.       Club Representation B'fd: Bloomfield (4)  CCC: Colombo  (1) Ku: Kurunegala (2) Mwa : Moratuwa (1) NCC: Nondescripts (2) SSC: Sinhalese Sports Club (5) TU: Tamil Union (1)         Key to types :  LHB left-hand bat, LBG leg break and googly bowler,  OB off break, SLA  slow left-arm bowler, RFM right arm fast medium bowler
	Test Appearances made before the tour	1 -  ALF de Mel,  DS de Silva,  GRA de Silva,  Dias,  Goonetilleke,  Kaluperuma,  Madugalle, Mendis,  Ranatunga,  Warnapura,   Wettimuny. 0 -  Jayesekera,  Perera,  Ranasinghe,  Ravi Ratnayeke,  Wijesuriya.
	Tour Officials	A P B  Anura Tennekoon Manager E R Ranjit Fernando Assistant manager
	Selectors	Brigadier Dr H I K Fernando (chair).   K M T Perera,  S E G Perera,  A Polonowita,  with Abu Fuard, coach.   Herbert Fernando of Nondescripts, a medical officer in the Sri Lanka Army for 30 years, was the Ceylonese wicket-keeper in all its unofficial Tests and representative matches from 1952 to 1971.  Melville Perera was the manager of Sri Lanka's 1975 World Cup side.   Sydney Perera was  …..  Anuruddha Polonowita, a left-arm spinner in representative matches for Ceylon, then coach at Ananda College, later became Sri Lanka's national curator.
	Selection	Unavailable:  none. Tour Party Announced : 18 February 1982. Arjuna Ranatunga was still a school student.	Time between selection and departure from Sri Lanka   7 days (18 February - 25 February)
	Travel Colombo  Q   Rawalpindi	The team flew out of Colombo on 25 February 1982 and landed in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, next morning.	Time spent in Pakistan    35 days (26 February - 2 April)
	Reinforcements	None.  When Bandula Warnapura injured a finger on his right hand, Duleep Mendis took the captaincy for the Faisalabad Test.
	Fixtures/Results	a Rawalpindi BCCP President's XI Abandoned b KARACHI PAKISTAN  First Test LOST  204 r c §  Karachi Pakistan (1st ODI) Lost  8 w d FAISALABAD PAKISTAN  Second Test. DRAWN e LAHORE PAKISTAN  Third Test LOST inns 102 r f §  Lahore Pakistan (2nd ODI) Won run rate g §  Karachi Pakistan (3rd ODI) Lost  5 w	† not first-class §  one-day international     Time spent in Pakistan before First Test:  7 days (26 February - 5 March)
	Test appearances on tour	3 -   de Mel,  D.S.de Silva,  Dias,  Goonetillake,  Madugalle,  Mendis,  Wettimuny. 2 -   Ajit de Silva,  Ranatunga,  Ratnayeke,  Warnapura. 1 -   Kaluperuma,   Jayasekera,   Ranasinghe,  Wijesuriya. 0 -   Perera.
	Match appearances       T  Test match o  one-day international  x other match  ⊕ T/20 international -   teams not announced     W won  L lost  D drawn  T  tie N no result   A abandoned   u unknown result  C cancelled	a b c d e f g A L F de Mel - T o T T o o D S de Silva - T o T T o o G R A de Silva - T   T     o R L Dias - T o T T o o H M Goonetillake - T   T T o o R S A Jayasekera -   o   T     L W Kaluperuma -     T       R S Madugalle - T o T T o o L. R D Mendis - T o T T o o J B N Perera -             A N Ranasinghe -     T   o o A Ranatunga - T o T   o o Ravi Ratnayeke - T o   T o o B Warnapura - T o   T o   S Wettimuny - T o T T o o R Wijesuriya -   o   T       R E S U L T S A L L D L W L
	Highlights	•   Sidath Wettimuny (157 at Faisalabad) scored Sri Lanka's first Test century. •   Roy Dias, having made 98 in the same innings, scored his own debut century (109) at Lahore. •   DS  de Silva, with 17 wickets in the 3-match series, was the leading wicket-taker on either side. •   de Silva also took the first five-wicket haul by a Sri Lankan with 5 for 59 at Faisalabad
	Tour Summary	F W L D Aban Test Matches 3 0 2 1 - Other first-class matches 1 0 0 0 1 ϯ Minor matches 0 - - - - § One-day internationals 3 1 2 0 - All Matches 7 1 4 1 1	F  Fixtures   W  Won   L  Lost   D Drawn   T  Tied  Canc  Cancelled  Aban  abandoned
	Return to Sri Lanka Karachi  Q  Colombo	The team rested on 1 April 1982, and the following day flew home from Karachi to Colombo.	Time away from Sri Lanka    36 days   (25 February to 2 April)
	Finances	The Pakistan Board bore all expenses, and gave the players a weekly tour allowance.
	Postscript
	Other Test tours in 1981-82	Australians to  New Zealand 1981-82  - captain Greg Chappell England  to  India 1981-82  -  captain Keith Fletcher	©  2015
	Acknowledgements To general reading of The Times newspaper digital archive (Gale Group);  Jamaica Gleanor archive;  National Library of Australia Trove; Papers Past NZ. From former British Newspaper Library, Colindale and online:  The Age, Melbourne Argus, Bangladesh Daily Star, Barbados Advocate, Canberra Times, Daily Telegraph, Dawn, Eastern Daily Press, The Hindu, The Independent (Dhaka), Indian Express, The Island (Lanka), Lahore Times, New Nation, New Zealand Auckland Herald, Sri Lanka Daily News, Stabroek News, Straits Times, Sydney Morning Herald, The Telegraph (Calcutta), Times of India , The Tribune Chandigarh, Trinidad Guardian, The West Australian. cricketweb.net;  ESPN cricinfo;  cricket archive; www.cricketcountry; www.coverpoint Magazines/periodicals including Australian Cricket, B & H West Indies Annual, The Cricketer International, Cricketer Quarterly, Indian Cricket, Indian Cricket Field Annual, Playfair Cricket Monthly, Shell Cricket Almanack of New Zealand, Wisden Cricket Monthly, Wisden Book of Test Cricket, Wisden’s Cricketers’ Almanack. Men In White, A History of Australian Cricket (Harte), A History of Indian Cricket (Bose), A History of West Indies Cricket (Manley) Biography and tour books (own collection and at the M.C.C. Library at Lord’s Ground)                                    © ALL CONTENTS OF THE TEST-CRICKET-TOURS.CO.UK WEBSITE ARE COPYRIGHT

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