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| Venue | Adelaide Oval, Adelaide on 9th January 1988 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | New Zealand won by 4 wickets |
| Points | New Zealand 2; Sri Lanka 0 |
| Umpires | LJ King, PJ McConnell |
| Man of the Match | RJ Hadlee |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| RS Mahanama | c Blain b Snedden | 51 | 84 | 112 | 5 | - | 60.71 |
| +DSBP Kuruppu | c Hadlee b Morrison | 23 | 22 | 26 | - | - | 104.55 |
| AP Gurusinha | c and b Gillespie | 7 | 32 | 40 | 1 | - | 21.88 |
| PA de Silva | c Jones b Chatfield | 51 | 56 | 72 | 4 | - | 91.07 |
| A Ranatunga | c Gillespie b Hadlee | 42 | 53 | 75 | 3 | 1 | 79.25 |
| *RS Madugalle | c Crowe b Gillespie | 3 | 8 | 15 | - | - | 37.50 |
| MAR Samarasekera | b Gillespie | 3 | 5 | 7 | - | - | 60.00 |
| JR Ratnayeke | c Rutherford b Hadlee | 23 | 25 | 16 | - | - | 92.00 |
| GF Labrooy | b Hadlee | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| EAR de Silva | c Chatfield b Morrison | 15 | 16 | 20 | - | - | 93.75 |
| CPH Ramanayake | not out | 3 | 3 | 4 | - | - | 100.00 |
| Extras | (12 lb, 6 nb, 2 w) | 20 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 49.5 overs) | 241 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-35 (Kuruppu), 2-66 (Gurusinha), 3-121 (Mahanama), 4-160 (PA de Silva), 5-187 (Madugalle), 6-192 (Samarasekera), 7-206 (Ranatunga), 8-207 (Labrooy), 9-234 (Ratnayeke), 10-241 (EAR de Silva) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Morrison | 5.5 | 1 | 39 | 2 | - | - | 17.50 | 6.69 |
| Hadlee | 10 | 1 | 35 | 3 | - | - | 20.00 | 3.50 |
| Chatfield | 10 | 1 | 43 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 4.30 |
| Gillespie | 10 | 0 | 40 | 3 | - | - | 20.00 | 4.00 |
| Snedden | 10 | 0 | 47 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 4.70 |
| Patel | 4 | 0 | 25 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.25 |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| KR Rutherford | c Kuruppu b Ratnayeke | 1 | 5 | 5 | - | - | 20.00 |
| *JG Wright | run out | 61 | 76 | 94 | 3 | - | 80.26 |
| AH Jones | b Ramanayake | 63 | 116 | 164 | 2 | 1 | 54.31 |
| MD Crowe | c Gurusinha b Ramanayake | 39 | 42 | 37 | 4 | - | 92.86 |
| DN Patel | st Kuruppu b PA de Silva | 9 | 12 | 16 | - | - | 75.00 |
| RJ Hadlee | c Gurusinha b Ratnayeke | 25 | 33 | 49 | - | - | 75.76 |
| +TE Blain | not out | 25 | 22 | 31 | 1 | - | 113.64 |
| MC Snedden | not out | 0 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| SR Gillespie | did not bat | ||||||
| DK Morrison | did not bat | ||||||
| EJ Chatfield | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 3 lb, 6 nb, 8 w) | 19 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, 49.5 overs) | 242 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-1 (Rutherford), 2-103 (Wright), 3-164 (Crowe), 4-180 (Patel), 5-204 (Jones), 6-236 (Hadlee) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Labrooy | 10 | 2 | 39 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.90 |
| Ratnayeke | 9.5 | 0 | 44 | 2 | - | - | 29.50 | 4.47 |
| Ramanayake | 7 | 0 | 47 | 2 | - | - | 21.00 | 6.71 |
| EAR de Silva | 10 | 2 | 40 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.00 |
| PA de Silva | 9 | 0 | 41 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 4.56 |
| Samarasekera | 4 | 0 | 26 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.50 |