| Series Name: | Pakistani cricket team in the Sri Lanka in 2022 |
| Team1 Image: | Flag of Sri Lanka.svg |
| Team1 Name: | Sri Lanka |
| Team2 Image: | Flag of Pakistan.svg |
| Team2 Name: | Pakistan |
| From Date: | 16 |
| To Date: | 28 July 2022 |
| Team1 Captain: | Dimuth Karunaratne |
| Team2 Captain: | Babar Azam |
| No Of Tests: | 2 |
| Team1 Tests Won: | 1 |
| Team2 Tests Won: | 1 |
| Team1 Tests Most Runs: | Dinesh Chandimal (271) |
| Team2 Tests Most Runs: | Babar Azam (271) |
| Team1 Tests Most Wickets: | Prabath Jayasuriya (17) |
| Team2 Tests Most Wickets: | Mohammad Nawaz (10) |
| Player Of Test Series: | Prabath Jayasuriya (SL) |
The Pakistan cricket team toured Sri Lanka in July 2022 to play two Test matches against the Sri Lankan cricket team.[1] The Test series formed part of the 2021–2023 ICC World Test Championship.[2] [3] In April 2022, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) confirmed that the series would be taking place.[4] [5] Originally, the tour was also going to include three One Day International (ODI) matches,[6] but these were cancelled in May 2022,[7] as they were not part of the 2020–2023 ICC Cricket World Cup Super League.[8] The fixtures for the tour were confirmed in June 2022.[9] Pakistan last toured Sri Lanka for a Test series in June and July 2015.[10] On 17 July 2022, Sri Lanka Cricket moved the second Test from the R. Premadasa Stadium in Colombo to the Galle International Stadium due to the economic crisis in the country.[11]
Pakistan won the first Test by four wickets after they were set a target of 342 runs to win the match.[12] It was Pakistan's second-highest successful run chase in Test cricket, and the highest successful run chase for any team playing a Test in Galle.[13] Sri Lanka won the second Test by 246 runs to draw the series 1–1, with Dhananjaya de Silva scoring a century.[14] Player of the series Prabath Jayasuriya took his fourth five-wicket haul in six innings.[15]
Lakshitha Manasinghe was added to Sri Lanka's squad for the second Test, replacing Maheesh Theekshana who suffered a finger injury in the first Test.[18] Pakistan's Shaheen Afridi was ruled out of the second Test after he picked up a knee injury in the first Test.[19]
| scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | Rank | scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | Runs | scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | Player | scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | Teams | scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | Innings | scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | Average | scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | High Score | scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | 100 | scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | 50 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 271 |  | 4 | 90.33 | 94* | - | 3 | ||||||||||
 | 67.75 | 119 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| align=center | 3 | scope=row style=text-align:center; | 189 | align=center | | align=center rowspan=3 | 4 | align=center | 63.00 | align=center | 160* | align=center rowspan=2 | 1 | align=center rowspan=2 | - | ||
| align=center | 4 | scope=row style=text-align:center; | 176 | align=center | | align=center | 44.00 | align=center | 109 | ||||||||
| align=center | 5 | scope=row style=text-align:center; | 168 | align=center | | align=center | 42.00 | align=center | 64 | align=center | - | align=center | 2 | ||||
| Last Updated: 1 August 2022 | |||||||||||||||||
| scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | Rank | scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | Wickets | scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | Player | scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | Teams | scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | Innings | scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | Best | scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | Average | scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | Economy | scope=col style="background:#9cf;" | 5w |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17 | | 4 | 5/82 | 24.35 | 2.52 | 2 | ||||||||||
| align=center | 2 | scope=row style=text-align:center; | 12 | align=center | | align=center rowspan=4 | 4 | align=center | 5/47 | align=center | 22.33 | align=center | 2.76 | align=center rowspan=2 | 1 | ||
| align=center | 3 | scope=row style=text-align:center; | 10 | align=center | | align=center | 5/88 | align=center | 26.10 | align=center | 3.53 | ||||||
| align=center | 4 | scope=row style=text-align:center; | 9 | align=center | | align=center | 3/83 | align=center | 39.00 | align=center | 3.77 | align=center rowspan=2 | - | ||||
| align=center | 5 | scope=row style=text-align:center; | 7 | align=center | | align=center | 3/58 | align=center | 25.57 | align=center | 3.52 | ||||||
| Last Updated: 1 August 2022 | |||||||||||||||||