# Indian cricket team in Pakistan in 1982–83

The India national cricket team toured the Pakistan during the 1982–83 cricket season. They played six Test matches against the Pakistan cricket team, with Pakistan winning the series 3–0.

## Test matches
### 1st Test

* 10–15 December 1982 Scorecard
* Match drawn Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore Umpires: Amanullah Khan (Pak) and Mahboob Shah (Pak) Player of the match: Zaheer Abbas (Pak)
* India won the toss and decided to field
* 13 December was a rest day.
* Sunil Gavaskar (Ind) became the fifth batsman to pass 7,000 Test runs.

### 2nd Test

* 23–27 December 1982 Scorecard
* Pakistan won by an innings and 86 runs National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Khizer Hayat (Pak) and Shakoor Rana (Pak) Player of the match: Imran Khan (Pak)
* Pakistan won the toss and decided to field
* 26 December was a rest day.

### 3rd Test

* 3–8 January 1983 Scorecard
* Pakistan won by 10 wickets Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad Umpires: Mahboob Shah (Pak) and Shakeel Khan (Pak) Player of the match: Imran Khan (Pak)
* Pakistan won the toss and decided to field
* Maninder Singh (Ind) made his Test debut, the youngest for India at the time.
* 6 January was a rest day.
* Zaheer Abbas became the first Pakistan batsman to score centuries in three successive innings.
* Imran Khan became the first Pakistan bowler to pick 200 wickets.

### 4th Test

* 14–19 January 1983 Scorecard
* Pakistan won by an innings and 119 runs Niaz Stadium, Hyderabad Umpires: Javed Akhtar (Pak) and Khizer Hayat (Pak) Player of the match: Javed Miandad (Pak)
* Pakistan won the toss and decided to bat
* 17 January was a rest day.
* Zaheer Abbas became the first Pakistan batsman to pass 4,000 runs in Tests.
* The partnership of Javed Miandad and Mudassar Nazar of 451 in the first innings equalled the record for highest partnership for any wicket.
* It was the first instance for Pakistan and fifth overall of two batsmen scoring double centuries in the same innings.

### 5th Test

* 23–28 January 1983 Scorecard
* Match drawn Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore Umpires: Javed Akhtar (Pak) and Khizer Hayat (Pak) Player of the match: Kapil Dev (Ind)
* India won the toss and decided to field
* Rain prevented play on dayes four and five.
* T. A. Sekhar (Ind) made his Test debut.
* 26 January was a rest day.
* Gundappa Viswanath (Ind) beat the record held by Garfield Sobers for most consecutive tests played (86).

### 6th Test

* 30 January–4 February 1983 Scorecard
* Match drawn National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Javed Akhtar (Pak) and Khizer Hayat (Pak) Player of the match: Mudassar Nazar (Pak)
* India won the toss and decided to bat
* 2 February was a rest day.
* Play on the afternoon of day four was abandoned due to politically motivated rioting, which included an attempt to damage the pitch.
* Wasim Bari became the fourth wicket-keeper to effect 200 dismissals.
* Mudassar Nazar's 761 runs in the series was the most by a Pakistan batsman, beating Hanif Mohammad's 628.
* Imran Khan's 40 wickets in the series was the most by any Pakistan bowler in a single Test series.

## One Day Internationals (ODIs)

Pakistan won the Wills Series 3–1.

### 1st ODI

* 3 December 1982 Scorecard
| Pakistan 224/4 (40 overs) | v | India 210/6 (40 overs) |
| Javed Miandad 106* (106) Madan Lal 2/39 (8 overs) | | Yashpal Sharma 56* (52) Jalal-ud-Din 2/36 (8 overs) |
* Pakistan won by 14 runs Municipal Stadium, Gujranwala Umpires: Amanullah Khan and Shakeel Khan Player of the match: Javed Miandad (PAK)
* India won the toss and elected to field.
* BS Sandhu (IND) made his ODI debut.

### 2nd ODI

* 17 December 1982 Scorecard
| Pakistan 263/2 (40 overs) | v | India 226/7 (40 overs) |
| Zaheer Abbas 118 (86) Kapil Dev 1/42 (8 overs) | | SM Patil 84 (60) Jalal-ud-Din 2/21 (4 overs) |
* Pakistan won by 37 runs Ibn-e-Qasim Bagh Stadium, Multan Umpires: Khizer Hayat and Shakoor Rana Player of the match: Zaheer Abbas (PAK)
* Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.

### 3rd ODI

* 31 December 1982 Scorecard
| Pakistan 252/3 (33 overs) | v | India 193/4 (27 overs) |
| Javed Miandad 119* (77) RJ Shastri 1/39 (7 overs) | | SM Gavaskar 69 (76) Mudassar Nazar 2/13 (2 overs) |
* India won by 18 runs Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore Umpires: Khizer Hayat and Shakoor Rana Player of the match: Javed Miandad (PAK)
* Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat.
* The match was reduced before play started to 33 overs per side.
* When play was halted India needed to have scored 176 runs to win. Pakistan were 175/2 after 27 overs.
* Shahid Mahboob (PAK) made his ODI debut.

### 4th ODI

* 21 January 1983 Scorecard
| India 197/6 (40 overs) | v | Pakistan 198/2 (35 overs) |
| K Srikkanth 48 (76) Sarfraz Nawaz 3/31 (8 overs) | | Zaheer Abbas 113 (99) BS Sandhu 2/38 (7 overs) |
* Pakistan won by 8 wickets National Stadium, Karachi Umpires: Khizer Hayat and Mahboob Shah Player of the match: Zaheer Abbas (PAK)
* India won the toss and elected to bat.
* TA Sekhar and Maninder Singh (both IND) made their ODI debuts.