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| Venue | Trent Bridge, Nottingham on 9th June 1979 (60-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | New Zealand won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | New Zealand won by 9 wickets |
| Points | New Zealand 4; Sri Lanka 0 |
| Umpires | WL Budd, KE Palmer |
| Scorers | HJ Butler, WR Thornley |
| Player of the Match | GP Howarth |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| B Warnapura | c and b McKechnie | 20 | 58 | 2 | - | 34.48 | |
| SRD Wettimuny | b Cairns | 16 | 20 | 1 | - | 80.00 | |
| *APB Tennekoon | b Stott | 59 | 96 | 6 | - | 61.46 | |
| RL Dias | c and b Stott | 25 | 46 | 2 | - | 54.35 | |
| LRD Mendis | c Turner b Troup | 14 | 27 | 2 | - | 51.85 | |
| DS de Silva | c Burgess b Stott | 6 | 24 | - | - | 25.00 | |
| +SA Jayasinghe | run out | 1 | 3 | - | - | 33.33 | |
| SP Pasqual | b Hadlee | 1 | 2 | - | - | 50.00 | |
| ARM Opatha | b McKechnie | 18 | 27 | 2 | - | 66.67 | |
| DLS de Silva | c Wright b McKechnie | 10 | 35 | - | - | 28.57 | |
| GRA de Silva | not out | 2 | 11 | - | - | 18.18 | |
| Extras | (13 lb, 2 nb, 2 w) | 17 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 56.5 overs) | 189 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-26 (Wettimuny), 2-57 (Warnapura), 3-107 (Dias), 4-137 (Mendis), 5-149 (DS de Silva), 6-150 (Jayasinghe), 7-150 (Tennekoon), 8-154 (Pasqual), 9-178 (DLS de Silva), 10-189 (Opatha, 56.5 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Hadlee | 12 | 3 | 24 | 1 | - | - | 72.00 | 2.00 |
| Troup | 10 | 0 | 30 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 3.00 |
| Cairns | 12 | 1 | 45 | 1 | - | - | 72.00 | 3.75 |
| McKechnie | 10.5 | 2 | 25 | 3 | - | - | 21.67 | 2.31 |
| Stott | 12 | 1 | 48 | 3 | - | - | 24.00 | 4.00 |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| GM Turner | not out | 83 | 143 | 4 | - | 58.04 | |
| JG Wright | c Tennekoon b GRA de Silva | 34 | 69 | 6 | - | 49.28 | |
| GP Howarth | not out | 63 | 75 | 8 | 1 | 84.00 | |
| JV Coney | did not bat | ||||||
| *MG Burgess | did not bat | ||||||
| +WK Lees | did not bat | ||||||
| BJ McKechnie | did not bat | ||||||
| BL Cairns | did not bat | ||||||
| RJ Hadlee | did not bat | ||||||
| LW Stott | did not bat | ||||||
| GB Troup | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (7 lb, 1 nb, 2 w) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (1 wicket, 47.4 overs) | 190 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-64 (Wright) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Opatha | 7 | 1 | 31 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.43 |
| DLS de Silva | 8 | 2 | 18 | 0 | - | - | - | 2.25 |
| Warnapura | 7 | 0 | 30 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.29 |
| DS de Silva | 9 | 0 | 42 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.67 |
| GRA de Silva | 12 | 1 | 39 | 1 | - | - | 72.00 | 3.25 |
| Pasqual | 4.4 | 0 | 20 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.29 |