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| Venue | Eden Gardens, Calcutta on 23rd October 1987 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | New Zealand won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | New Zealand won by 4 wickets |
| Points | New Zealand 4; Zimbabwe 0 |
| Umpires | Khizer Hayat, PW Vidanagamage |
| Player of the Match | JJ Crowe |
| Zimbabwe innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| GA Paterson | run out | 0 | 8 | - | - | 0.00 | |
| AH Omarshah | c MD Crowe b Watson | 41 | 90 | 2 | - | 45.56 | |
| KJ Arnott | run out | 51 | 83 | 5 | - | 61.45 | |
| +DL Houghton | c MD Crowe b Boock | 50 | 57 | 5 | - | 87.72 | |
| AJ Pycroft | not out | 52 | 46 | 2 | 1 | 113.04 | |
| KM Curran | b Boock | 12 | 11 | 1 | - | 109.09 | |
| AC Waller | not out | 8 | 5 | 1 | - | 160.00 | |
| IP Butchart | did not bat | ||||||
| EA Brandes | did not bat | ||||||
| *AJ Traicos | did not bat | ||||||
| MP Jarvis | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (7 lb, 6 w) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 227 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-1 (Paterson), 2-82 (Arnott), 3-121 (Omarshah), 4-180 (Houghton), 5-216 (Curran) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Snedden | 10 | 2 | 32 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.20 |
| Chatfield | 10 | 2 | 47 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.70 |
| Patel | 10 | 1 | 53 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.30 |
| Watson | 10 | 1 | 45 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 4.50 |
| Boock | 10 | 1 | 43 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 4.30 |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| KR Rutherford | b Brandes | 22 | 32 | 2 | - | 68.75 | |
| JG Wright | b Omarshah | 12 | 32 | 1 | - | 37.50 | |
| MD Crowe | c Butchart b Omarshah | 58 | 58 | 8 | - | 100.00 | |
| DN Patel | c Arnott b Brandes | 1 | 4 | - | - | 25.00 | |
| *JJ Crowe | not out | 88 | 105 | 8 | - | 83.81 | |
| AH Jones | c Jarvis b Traicos | 15 | 35 | 1 | - | 42.86 | |
| MC Snedden | b Jarvis | 4 | 13 | - | - | 30.77 | |
| +IDS Smith | not out | 17 | 10 | 2 | - | 170.00 | |
| SL Boock | did not bat | ||||||
| EJ Chatfield | did not bat | ||||||
| W Watson | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 5 lb, 1 nb, 4 w) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, 47.4 overs) | 228 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-37 (Wright), 2-53 (Rutherford), 3-56 (Patel), 4-125 (MD Crowe), 5-158 (Jones), 6-182 (Snedden) | |||||||
| Zimbabwe bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Curran | 2 | 0 | 12 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.00 |
| Jarvis | 7.4 | 0 | 39 | 1 | - | - | 46.00 | 5.09 |
| Brandes | 10 | 1 | 44 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 4.40 |
| Omarshah | 10 | 0 | 34 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 3.40 |
| Butchart | 8 | 0 | 50 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.25 |
| Traicos | 10 | 0 | 43 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 4.30 |