Pakistan, India
1982-12-30
Imran Khan's 8 for 60 in the second innings at Karachi headlined a 40-wicket series in which he averaged 13.95 — one of the most dominant individual fast-bowling performances in Test history.
Sri Lanka, England
1982-02-17
Sri Lanka played their inaugural Test match at the P. Saravanamuttu Stadium in Colombo, on 17 February 1982 — captain Bandula Warnapura's side fell to England by 7 wickets, but the match marked Sri Lanka's arrival as the eighth Test nation.
Sri Lanka, England
1982-02-17
Eighteen-year-old Arjuna Ranatunga walked out at Colombo to bat in Sri Lanka's first ever Test innings, scored a debut fifty, and started the career that would end with the 1996 World Cup.
England, South Africa
1982-03-01
Twelve England-eligible cricketers led by Graham Gooch flew secretly to South Africa in March 1982 for an unauthorised 'SAB English XI' tour, prompting the TCCB to impose three-year international bans on the entire squad.
England, South Africa
1982-03-15
Geoff Boycott, then 41 and one of England's leading run-scorers, joined the SAB rebel tour to South Africa in March 1982 — the three-year ban that followed effectively ended his Test career.
India, Sri Lanka
1982-09-17
Duleep Mendis became the only batsman in Test history to score identical centuries — 105 and 105 — in both innings of a Test, in Sri Lanka's first ever Test in India at Madras in September 1982.