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| Venue | Nehru Stadium, Indore on 18th, 19th October 1987 (50-over match) | 
| Balls per over | 6 | 
| Toss | New Zealand won the toss and decided to field | 
| Result | Australia won by 3 runs | 
| Points | Australia 4; New Zealand 0 | 
| Umpires | DM Archer, Khizer Hayat | 
| Close of play day 1 | No play | 
| Player of the Match | DC Boon | 
| Australia innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| DC Boon | c Wright b Snedden | 87 | 96 | 110 | 5 | 2 | 90.62 | 
| GR Marsh | c JJ Crowe b Snedden | 5 | 9 | 16 | - | - | 55.56 | 
| DM Jones | c Rutherford b Patel | 52 | 48 | 69 | 1 | 3 | 108.33 | 
| *AR Border | c MD Crowe b Chatfield | 34 | 28 | 34 | 3 | - | 121.43 | 
| SR Waugh | not out | 13 | 8 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 162.50 | 
| TM Moody | not out | 0 | 3 | 3 | - | - | 0.00 | 
| SP O'Donnell | did not bat | ||||||
| +GC Dyer | did not bat | ||||||
| TBA May | did not bat | ||||||
| CJ McDermott | did not bat | ||||||
| BA Reid | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 5 lb, 2 w) | 8 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, innings closed, 30 overs) | 199 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-17 (Marsh), 2-134 (Jones), 3-171 (Boon), 4-196 (Border) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ | 
| Snedden | 6 | 0 | 36 | 2 | - | - | 18.00 | 6.00 | 
| Chatfield | 6 | 0 | 27 | 1 | - | - | 36.00 | 4.50 | 
| Watson | 6 | 0 | 34 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.67 | 
| Patel | 6 | 0 | 45 | 1 | - | - | 36.00 | 7.50 | 
| Bracewell | 6 | 0 | 51 | 0 | - | - | - | 8.50 | 
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| KR Rutherford | b O'Donnell | 37 | 38 | 60 | 2 | 2 | 97.37 | 
| JG Wright | c Dyer b O'Donnell | 47 | 44 | 52 | 1 | 2 | 106.82 | 
| MD Crowe | c Marsh b Waugh | 58 | 48 | 71 | 5 | - | 120.83 | 
| AH Jones | c Marsh b McDermott | 15 | 23 | 28 | - | - | 65.22 | 
| *JJ Crowe | c and b Reid | 3 | 10 | 8 | - | - | 30.00 | 
| DN Patel | run out | 13 | 9 | 11 | 1 | - | 144.44 | 
| JG Bracewell | c and b Reid | 6 | 4 | 5 | 1 | - | 150.00 | 
| +IDS Smith | b Waugh | 1 | 2 | 8 | - | - | 50.00 | 
| MC Snedden | run out | 1 | 1 | 5 | - | - | 100.00 | 
| EJ Chatfield | not out | 0 | 0 | 6 | - | - | 0.00 | 
| W Watson | not out | 2 | 3 | 1 | - | - | 66.67 | 
| Extras | (4 b, 5 lb, 4 w) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, innings closed, 30 overs) | 196 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-83 (Wright), 2-94 (Rutherford), 3-133 (Jones), 4-140 (JJ Crowe), 5-165 (Patel), 6-183 (Bracewell), 7-193 (MD Crowe), 8-193 (Smith), 9-194 (Snedden) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ | 
| McDermott | 6 | 0 | 30 | 1 | - | - | 36.00 | 5.00 | 
| Reid | 6 | 0 | 38 | 2 | - | - | 18.00 | 6.33 | 
| May | 6 | 0 | 39 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.50 | 
| O'Donnell | 6 | 0 | 44 | 2 | - | - | 18.00 | 7.33 | 
| Waugh | 6 | 0 | 36 | 2 | - | - | 18.00 | 6.00 |