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| Venue | Brisbane Cricket Ground, Woolloongabba, Brisbane on 16th January 1988 (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 2; Sri Lanka 0 |
| Umpires | RC Bailhache, CD Timmins |
| Player of the Match | MD Crowe |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| RS Mahanama | c Blain b Chatfield | 12 | 55 | 63 | - | - | 21.82 |
| DSBP Kuruppu | c Patel b Morrison | 47 | 71 | 116 | 5 | - | 66.20 |
| AP Gurusinha | run out | 0 | 10 | 10 | - | - | 0.00 |
| PA de Silva | run out | 25 | 25 | 29 | 4 | - | 100.00 |
| A Ranatunga | run out | 25 | 27 | 49 | 2 | - | 92.59 |
| *RS Madugalle | c Blain b Morrison | 5 | 10 | 9 | - | - | 50.00 |
| MAR Samarasekera | c Snedden b Chatfield | 8 | 18 | 23 | - | - | 44.44 |
| JR Ratnayeke | not out | 15 | 18 | 25 | 2 | - | 83.33 |
| +RG de Alwis | c Rutherford b Chatfield | 2 | 4 | 6 | - | - | 50.00 |
| GF Labrooy | not out | 2 | 11 | 14 | - | - | 18.18 |
| CPH Ramanayake | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (9 lb, 2 nb, 12 w) | 23 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, innings closed, 39 overs) | 164 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-52 (Mahanama), 2-54 (Gurusinha), 3-97 (de Silva), 4-103 (Kuruppu), 5-111 (Madugalle), 6-139 (Samarasekera), 7-142 (Ranatunga), 8-145 (de Alwis) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Hadlee | 9 | 1 | 25 | 0 | - | - | - | 2.78 |
| Morrison | 6 | 0 | 39 | 2 | - | - | 18.00 | 6.50 |
| Chatfield | 9 | 2 | 27 | 3 | - | - | 18.00 | 3.00 |
| Gillespie | 8 | 0 | 39 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.88 |
| Snedden | 7 | 0 | 25 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.57 |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| KR Rutherford | b Labrooy | 1 | 7 | 7 | - | - | 14.29 |
| *JG Wright | c Ranatunga b Ramanayake | 22 | 30 | 50 | 3 | - | 73.33 |
| AH Jones | c de Alwis b Ranatunga | 29 | 61 | 76 | 2 | - | 47.54 |
| MD Crowe | run out | 43 | 60 | 94 | 4 | - | 71.67 |
| DN Patel | c Ranatunga b Ramanayake | 1 | 9 | 12 | - | - | 11.11 |
| +TE Blain | b Ranatunga | 17 | 20 | 31 | 2 | - | 85.00 |
| RJ Hadlee | not out | 21 | 30 | 36 | 2 | - | 70.00 |
| MC Snedden | not out | 15 | 19 | 20 | 2 | - | 78.95 |
| SR Gillespie | did not bat | ||||||
| EJ Chatfield | did not bat | ||||||
| DK Morrison | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 5 lb, 1 nb, 10 w) | 18 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, 37.1 overs) | 167 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-1 (Rutherford), 2-43 (Wright), 3-78 (Jones), 4-90 (Patel), 5-122 (Blain), 6-139 (Crowe) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Ratnayeke | 7.1 | 0 | 40 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.58 |
| Labrooy | 8 | 1 | 32 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 4.00 |
| Ramanayake | 8 | 2 | 28 | 2 | - | - | 24.00 | 3.50 |
| Samarasekera | 3 | 0 | 18 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.00 |
| Ranatunga | 8 | 0 | 35 | 2 | - | - | 24.00 | 4.38 |
| de Silva | 3 | 1 | 7 | 0 | - | - | - | 2.33 |