[4][5] As a result, Australia slipped from first to third in the ICC Test Championship; Sri Lanka, who had started the series ranked seventh, moved up to sixth.

[6] In August 2016, Sri Lankan batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan announced that he would retire from both ODI and T20I cricket at the end of the series.

With injury concerns, the Sri Lankan selectors picked their Test squads on a match-by-match basis.

[14] Nuwan Pradeep was ruled out of Sri Lanka's ODI squad with a hamstring injury and was replaced with Angelo Perera.

[22] Sri Lanka also released Thisara Perera and Lakshan Sandakan for the final ODI game.