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| Venue | Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney on 5th January 1988 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | New Zealand won by 6 wickets |
| Points | New Zealand 2; Sri Lanka 0 |
| Umpires | AR Crafter, RA French |
| Player of the Match | EJ Chatfield |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| RS Mahanama | b Morrison | 0 | 4 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| AP Gurusinha | run out | 23 | 50 | 70 | 1 | - | 46.00 |
| PA de Silva | c Blain b Chatfield | 5 | 35 | 37 | - | - | 14.29 |
| A Ranatunga | c Blain b Snedden | 35 | 51 | 67 | 5 | - | 68.63 |
| *RS Madugalle | c MD Crowe b Morrison | 13 | 39 | 50 | 1 | - | 33.33 |
| HP Tillakaratne | lbw b Snedden | 0 | 3 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| +RG de Alwis | c Patel b Bracewell | 32 | 37 | 52 | 4 | - | 86.49 |
| JR Ratnayeke | c Wright b Chatfield | 41 | 41 | 61 | 2 | 1 | 100.00 |
| GF Labrooy | c Patel b Chatfield | 3 | 5 | 10 | - | - | 60.00 |
| EAR de Silva | b Chatfield | 6 | 13 | 23 | - | - | 46.15 |
| CPH Ramanayake | not out | 11 | 14 | 13 | - | - | 78.57 |
| Extras | (3 lb, 2 w) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 48.2 overs) | 174 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Mahanama), 2-14 (PA de Silva), 3-40 (Gurusinha), 4-76 (Ranatunga), 5-76 (Tillakaratne), 6-82 (Madugalle), 7-134 (de Alwis), 8-147 (Labrooy), 9-159 (Ratnayeke), 10-174 (EAR de Silva) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Morrison | 10 | 2 | 43 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 4.30 |
| Hadlee | 9 | 4 | 12 | 0 | - | - | - | 1.33 |
| Chatfield | 9.2 | 1 | 32 | 4 | - | - | 14.00 | 3.43 |
| Bracewell | 10 | 0 | 41 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 4.10 |
| Snedden | 10 | 1 | 43 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 4.30 |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| JG Wright | c Mahanama b Ramanayake | 41 | 75 | 99 | 3 | 1 | 54.67 |
| AH Jones | c and b Ramanayake | 34 | 82 | 82 | 2 | - | 41.46 |
| MD Crowe | c PA de Silva b Labrooy | 52 | 68 | 74 | 5 | - | 76.47 |
| DN Patel | c de Alwis b Ratnayeke | 29 | 55 | 71 | 1 | - | 52.73 |
| +TE Blain | not out | 5 | 10 | 14 | 1 | - | 50.00 |
| *JJ Crowe | not out | 6 | 7 | 11 | - | - | 85.71 |
| RJ Hadlee | did not bat | ||||||
| JG Bracewell | did not bat | ||||||
| MC Snedden | did not bat | ||||||
| DK Morrison | did not bat | ||||||
| EJ Chatfield | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 6 lb, 4 w) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, 48.4 overs) | 178 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-80 (Jones), 2-82 (Wright), 3-167 (MD Crowe), 4-167 (Patel) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Ratnayeke | 9.4 | 0 | 40 | 1 | - | - | 58.00 | 4.14 |
| Labrooy | 10 | 1 | 37 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 3.70 |
| Ramanayake | 10 | 2 | 28 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 2.80 |
| EAR de Silva | 10 | 1 | 17 | 0 | - | - | - | 1.70 |
| Ranatunga | 5 | 0 | 27 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.40 |
| PA de Silva | 4 | 0 | 22 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.50 |