[2] The first ODI, at Gandhi Sports Complex Ground, Amritsar, was won by India by a margin of 78 runs.

[2] The man of the match was Dilip Doshi, who four wickets for 44 runs of ten overs.

[4] The third and final ODI, held at the Karnataka State Cricket Association Stadium, Bangalore was won by India by a margin of six wickets.

[7] That one ODI was in the 1979 Cricket World Cup, held in England, so the 1982–83 tour was the first series between the two countries.

[16] Comparably, in the same time period, Sri Lanka played four tests, of which they lost three and drew one.

[18] The following players represented India in at least one Test or One-day International during the 1982–83 tour: 1 SM Gavaskar *Test  · 2 J Arun Lal  · 3 DB Vengsarkar  · 4 GR Viswanath  · 5 SM Patil  · 6 Y Sharma  · 7 N Kapil Dev *ODI  · 8 S Madan Lal  · 9 SMH Kirmani † 10 RC Shukla  · 11 DR Doshi  · 12 RMH Binny  · 13 K Srikkanth  · 14 AO Malhotra  · 15 M Amarnath The following players represented Sri Lanka on the 1982–83 tour of India: 1 B Warnapura *  · 2 HM Goonatilleke †  · 3 RL Dias  · 4 LRD Mendis  · 5 A Ranatunga  · 6 RS Madugalle  · 7 AN Ranasinghe  · 8 DS de Silva  · 9 JR Ratnayeke 10 ALF de Mel  · 11 GRA de Silva  · 12 S Wettimuny  · 13 VB John The first and only test in the series started when the Sri Lankan captain, Bandula Warnapura, won the toss and elected to bat on 17 September 1982.

The match, played at MA Chidambaram Stadium, started badly for Sri Lanka when they lost their first two wickets for only 11 runs with Warnapura scoring four and, fellow opener, Mahes Goonatilleke making seven.

Arjuna Ranatunga and Anura Ranasinghe were both dismissed when Sri Lanka was on 205.

The Sri Lankan number six and eight batsmen both made scores in the forties.

Sri Lankas innings ended 44 runs later when Ajit de Silva was dismissed for a duck.

Ashantha de Mel was left not out as Sri Lanka was bowled out for 346 runs of 92.5 overs.

The second-wicket partnership between Sunil Gavaskar and Dilip Vengsarkar was even bigger than the first-wicket one.

Mendis and Ranasinghe put on a spirited fightback for the sixth-wicket partnership.

The seventh-wicket partnership between Ranasinghe and Somachandra de Silva was worth 49 runs.

The last four batsmen batted around de Silva, who made 46 not out, and got Sri Lanka to 394 of 96.3 overs.

They were Kapil Dev, Madan Lal, Dilip Doshi and Rakesh Shukla.

Sandeep Patil and Kapil Dev put on 62 runs in 52 balls for the third-wicket.

The bowler that caused the most match in India's second inning was Ashantha de Mel who took five wickets for 68 runs.

Armarnath's dismissal brought the end of the match as rain had meant that four overs were not played for each team.

Requiring 269 runs off 46 overs to win, Sri Lanka made a bad start to their innings when Bandula Warnapura was bowled for a duck when Sri Lanka was only on eight runs.

Mendis and Somachandra de Silva made seventh-wicket partnership of eight.

At the end of 46 overs, Sri Lanka was 78 runs behind India's score and therefore lost the match.

[2] Despite losing the first ODI, Sri Lanka, once again, chose to bat after winning the toss.

This was the Sri Lankan captain Warnapura's fourth score under ten on the tour in as many matches.

Ajit de Silva and Mahes Goonatilleke batted out the innings.