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| Venue | McDonald Park, Mount Gambier on 6th January 1998 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | New Zealanders won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | New Zealanders won by 164 runs |
| Umpires | AJ Hunter, DR Smith |
| Scorers | RM Artis, ME Skau |
| New Zealanders innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| CM Spearman | c Locastro b Mann | 111 | 130 | 173 | 9 | 1 | 85.38 |
| BA Young | c McInnes b Johnson | 44 | 56 | 69 | 3 | - | 78.57 |
| MJ Horne | c and b Reeves | 36 | 54 | 57 | 3 | - | 66.67 |
| *SP Fleming | c Reeves b McInnes | 24 | 14 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 171.43 |
| CD McMillan | b Mann | 39 | 22 | 23 | 3 | 1 | 177.27 |
| CZ Harris | not out | 33 | 16 | 22 | 3 | 1 | 206.25 |
| CL Cairns | not out | 13 | 10 | 19 | 2 | - | 130.00 |
| +AC Parore | did not bat | ||||||
| DJ Nash | did not bat | ||||||
| SB O'Connor | did not bat | ||||||
| CJ Drum | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (6 lb, 4 nb, 6 w) | 16 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, innings closed, 193 minutes, 50 overs) | 316 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-83 (Young), 2-172 (Horne), 3-209 (Fleming), 4-269 (McMillan), 5-270 (Spearman) | |||||||
| Australian Country XI bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Roe | 7 | 1 | 40 | 0 | 4 | - | - | 5.71 |
| Warden | 10 | 0 | 55 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.50 |
| Mann | 10 | 1 | 68 | 2 | - | 4 | 30.00 | 6.80 |
| Johnson | 8 | 0 | 34 | 1 | 2 | - | 48.00 | 4.25 |
| Reeves | 8 | 0 | 61 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 7.62 |
| McInnes | 7 | 0 | 52 | 1 | - | - | 42.00 | 7.43 |
| Australian Country XI innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| AR Jones | c Parore b McMillan | 70 | 128 | 156 | 6 | - | 54.69 |
| LG Burns | lbw b Nash | 30 | 40 | 54 | 4 | - | 75.00 |
| MR Johnson | c Drum b Harris | 11 | 20 | 28 | - | - | 55.00 |
| GK John | c Parore b Nash | 1 | 4 | 9 | - | - | 25.00 |
| *GJ Dehring | st Parore b McMillan | 8 | 16 | 19 | - | - | 50.00 |
| MW McInnes | run out (Spearman->Harris) | 7 | 8 | 14 | 1 | - | 87.50 |
| +GS Locastro | lbw b McMillan | 2 | 13 | 14 | - | - | 15.38 |
| SG Mann | c Nash b Drum | 0 | 2 | 5 | - | - | 0.00 |
| SA Reeves | c Harris b McMillan | 3 | 16 | 12 | - | - | 18.75 |
| PD Roe | c Nash b Fleming | 5 | 4 | 7 | - | - | 125.00 |
| MJ Warden | not out | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| Extras | (2 b, 7 lb, 6 w) | 15 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 164 minutes, 42.1 overs) | 152 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-57 (Burns), 2-78 (Johnson), 3-87 (John), 4-105 (Dehring), 5-128 (McInnes), 6-138 (Locastro), 7-139 (Mann), 8-143 (Jones), 9-152 (Reeves), 10-152 (Roe) | |||||||
| New Zealanders bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Cairns | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | - | 1.00 |
| Drum | 8 | 0 | 36 | 1 | 1 | - | 48.00 | 4.50 |
| Nash | 8 | 1 | 30 | 2 | 2 | - | 24.00 | 3.75 |
| O'Connor | 6 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 3.17 |
| Harris | 10 | 1 | 30 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 3.00 |
| McMillan | 8 | 1 | 22 | 4 | 1 | - | 12.00 | 2.75 |
| Fleming | 1.1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | - | - | 7.00 | 4.29 |