| a2234 o53 |
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| Venue | Old Trafford, Manchester on 17th July 1978 (55-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | England won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | England won by 126 runs |
| Umpires | HD Bird, BJ Meyer |
| Player of the Match | CT Radley |
| England innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| *JM Brearley | c Edwards b Bracewell | 27 | 58 | 3 | - | 46.55 | |
| GA Gooch | run out | 0 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 | |
| CT Radley | not out | 117 | 140 | 11 | - | 83.57 | |
| DI Gower | run out | 50 | 80 | 7 | - | 62.50 | |
| DW Randall | run out | 41 | 40 | 4 | 1 | 102.50 | |
| IT Botham | c Edgar b Hadlee | 34 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 261.54 | |
| G Miller | did not bat | ||||||
| +RW Taylor | did not bat | ||||||
| PH Edmonds | did not bat | ||||||
| JK Lever | did not bat | ||||||
| RGD Willis | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (6 lb, 2 nb, 1 w) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, innings closed, 55 overs) | 278 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Gooch), 2-44 (Brearley), 3-149 (Gower), 4-238 (Randall), 5-278 (Botham) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Hadlee | 11 | 1 | 70 | 1 | - | - | 66.00 | 6.36 |
| Collinge | 11 | 0 | 48 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.36 |
| Bracewell | 11 | 0 | 41 | 1 | - | - | 66.00 | 3.73 |
| Congdon | 11 | 2 | 26 | 0 | - | - | - | 2.36 |
| Cairns | 11 | 0 | 84 | 0 | - | - | - | 7.64 |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| JG Wright | b Botham | 30 | 58 | 3 | - | 51.72 | |
| BA Edgar | run out | 31 | 75 | 3 | - | 41.33 | |
| GP Howarth | st Taylor b Edmonds | 12 | 29 | 2 | - | 41.38 | |
| +GN Edwards | c Randall b Miller | 0 | 3 | - | - | 0.00 | |
| *MG Burgess | c Taylor b Willis | 0 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 | |
| BE Congdon | c Randall b Edmonds | 2 | 21 | - | - | 9.52 | |
| RJ Hadlee | c Gower b Miller | 1 | 6 | - | - | 16.67 | |
| BL Cairns | c Botham b Edmonds | 60 | 43 | 4 | 4 | 139.53 | |
| RO Collinge | c Gooch b Lever | 3 | 7 | - | - | 42.86 | |
| BP Bracewell | not out | 0 | 4 | - | - | 0.00 | |
| JM Parker | absent hurt | ||||||
| Extras | (7 b, 6 lb) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 41.2 overs) | 152 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-44 (Wright), 2-80 (Edgar), 3-80 (Edwards), 4-84 (Burgess), 5-84 (Howarth), 6-85 (Hadlee), 7-88 (Congdon), 8-133 (Collinge), 9-152 (Cairns) | |||||||
| England bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Willis | 9 | 5 | 21 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 2.33 |
| Lever | 7 | 0 | 28 | 1 | - | - | 42.00 | 4.00 |
| Miller | 11 | 4 | 27 | 2 | - | - | 33.00 | 2.45 |
| Botham | 7 | 0 | 24 | 1 | - | - | 42.00 | 3.43 |
| Edmonds | 7.2 | 1 | 39 | 3 | - | - | 14.67 | 5.32 |