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| Venue | Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo on 3rd March 1984 (45-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | New Zealand won by 104 runs |
| Umpires | DP Buultjens, HC Felsinger |
| Player of the Match | JF Reid |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| *GP Howarth | c Kuruppu b Ranatunga | 33 | 53 | 70 | 2 | - | 62.26 |
| JG Wright | c and b de Mel | 20 | 43 | 85 | 1 | - | 46.51 |
| JF Reid | c John b Ratnayeke | 80 | 76 | 109 | 2 | 2 | 105.26 |
| MD Crowe | c de Mel b de Silva | 29 | 27 | 36 | 3 | - | 107.41 |
| JJ Crowe | not out | 39 | 50 | 72 | 1 | 1 | 78.00 |
| RJ Hadlee | c Ranatunga b Ratnayeke | 6 | 9 | 5 | - | - | 66.67 |
| BL Cairns | b John | 1 | 3 | 4 | - | - | 33.33 |
| JV Coney | not out | 4 | 4 | 3 | - | - | 100.00 |
| +IDS Smith | did not bat | ||||||
| SL Boock | did not bat | ||||||
| EJ Chatfield | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 8 lb, 10 nb, 3 w) | 22 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, innings closed, 42 overs) | 234 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-58 (Howarth), 2-76 (Wright), 3-123 (MD Crowe), 4-220 (Reid), 5-227 (Hadlee), 6-229 (Cairns) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| de Mel | 7 | 1 | 40 | 1 | - | - | 42.00 | 5.71 |
| John | 9 | 1 | 39 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 4.33 |
| Ratnayeke | 8 | 0 | 37 | 2 | - | - | 24.00 | 4.62 |
| de Silva | 9 | 0 | 42 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 4.67 |
| Ranatunga | 9 | 0 | 54 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 6.00 |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| S Wettimuny | c Coney b Chatfield | 16 | 33 | 48 | 2 | - | 48.48 |
| DSBP Kuruppu | c Hadlee b Coney | 38 | 55 | 65 | 4 | - | 69.09 |
| RL Dias | c and b Boock | 9 | 26 | 36 | - | - | 34.62 |
| *LRD Mendis | b Boock | 15 | 33 | 39 | - | - | 45.45 |
| A Ranatunga | c Coney b Boock | 16 | 14 | 26 | 1 | - | 114.29 |
| JR Ratnayeke | run out | 1 | 4 | 4 | - | - | 25.00 |
| DS de Silva | c JJ Crowe b Hadlee | 8 | 22 | 36 | - | - | 36.36 |
| RS Madugalle | b Cairns | 5 | 13 | 13 | 1 | - | 38.46 |
| +RG de Alwis | c Smith b Hadlee | 8 | 15 | 9 | - | - | 53.33 |
| ALF de Mel | b Hadlee | 2 | 7 | 14 | - | - | 28.57 |
| VB John | not out | 6 | 4 | 7 | 1 | - | 150.00 |
| Extras | (1 b, 4 lb, 1 w) | 6 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 37.3 overs) | 130 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-54 (Wettimuny), 2-60 (Kuruppu), 3-73 (Dias), 4-98 (Mendis), 5-100 (Ratnayeke), 6-102 (Ranatunga), 7-111 (Madugalle), 8-122 (de Alwis), 9-123 (de Silva), 10-130 (de Mel) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Cairns | 9 | 0 | 35 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 3.89 |
| Hadlee | 8.3 | 0 | 22 | 3 | - | - | 17.00 | 2.59 |
| Chatfield | 4 | 0 | 24 | 1 | - | - | 24.00 | 6.00 |
| Boock | 9 | 0 | 28 | 3 | - | - | 18.00 | 3.11 |
| Coney | 7 | 2 | 15 | 1 | - | - | 42.00 | 2.14 |