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| Venue | Eden Park, Auckland on 14th February 1981 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | India won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | New Zealand won by 78 runs |
| Umpires | BA Bricknell, FR Goodall |
| Player of the Match | BA Edgar |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| JG Wright | c Binny b Ghavri | 10 | 15 | 66.67 | |||
| BA Edgar | not out | 99 | 136 | 6 | 1 | 72.79 | |
| GN Edwards | c Chauhan b Ghavri | 36 | 51 | 3 | - | 70.59 | |
| *GP Howarth | c Yograj Singh b Patil | 11 | 10 | 110.00 | |||
| JV Coney | c and b Kapil Dev | 2 | 4 | - | - | 50.00 | |
| +IDS Smith | lbw b Patil | 10 | 21 | 47.62 | |||
| RJ Hadlee | c Vengsarkar b Ghavri | 22 | 23 | 95.65 | |||
| BL Cairns | not out | 12 | 14 | 85.71 | |||
| MC Snedden | did not bat | ||||||
| GB Troup | did not bat | ||||||
| EJ Chatfield | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (11 lb, 4 nb, 1 w) | 16 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, innings closed, 45 overs) | 218 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-24 (Wright), 2-112 (Edwards), 3-127 (Howarth), 4-132 (Coney), 5-156 (Smith), 6-196 (Hadlee) | |||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Kapil Dev | 10 | 1 | 40 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 4.00 |
| Ghavri | 10 | 1 | 40 | 3 | - | - | 20.00 | 4.00 |
| Binny | 6 | 2 | 26 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.33 |
| Yograj Singh | 9 | 0 | 57 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.33 |
| Patil | 10 | 1 | 39 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 3.90 |
| India innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| CPS Chauhan | b Hadlee | 6 | 12 | 50.00 | |||
| *SM Gavaskar | c Smith b Snedden | 14 | 40 | 35.00 | |||
| DB Vengsarkar | run out | 0 | 3 | - | - | 0.00 | |
| GR Viswanath | b Chatfield | 14 | 40 | 35.00 | |||
| SM Patil | b Chatfield | 4 | 12 | - | 33.33 | ||
| Yashpal Sharma | c Edwards b Cairns | 17 | 38 | 44.74 | |||
| Kapil Dev | run out | 50 | 68 | 4 | 1 | 73.53 | |
| RMH Binny | c Edwards b Cairns | 12 | 30 | 40.00 | |||
| KD Ghavri | not out | 6 | 15 | 40.00 | |||
| Yograj Singh | c Hadlee b Troup | 1 | 3 | - | - | 33.33 | |
| +SMH Kirmani | not out | 10 | 13 | 76.92 | |||
| Extras | (5 lb, 1 nb) | 6 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, innings closed, 45 overs) | 140 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-9 (Chauhan), 2-10 (Vengsarkar), 3-31 (Gavaskar), 4-40 (Patil), 5-41 (Viswanath), 6-86 (Yashpal Sharma), 7-122 (Kapil Dev), 8-122 (Binny), 9-124 (Yograj Singh) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Hadlee | 6 | 3 | 6 | 1 | - | - | 36.00 | 1.00 |
| Troup | 10 | 3 | 21 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 2.10 |
| Chatfield | 10 | 2 | 36 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 3.60 |
| Snedden | 8 | 2 | 26 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 3.25 |
| Coney | 3 | 0 | 7 | 0 | - | - | - | 2.33 |
| Cairns | 7 | 2 | 33 | 2 | - | - | 21.00 | 4.71 |
| Howarth | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.00 |