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| Venue | Basin Reserve, Wellington on 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th March 1988 (5-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | BL Aldridge, SJ Woodward |
| Close of play day 1 | New Zealand (1) 192/3 (Crowe 57*, Greatbatch 34*) |
| Close of play day 2 | New Zealand (1) 451/5 (Rutherford 91*, Bracewell 43*) |
| Close of play day 3 | England (1) 183/2 (Moxon 81*, Gatting 33*) |
| Close of play day 4 | No play |
| Man of the Match | KR Rutherford |
| New Zealand first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *JG Wright | c Fairbrother b Capel | 36 | 118 | 189 | 2 | - | |
| TJ Franklin | lbw b DeFreitas | 14 | 58 | 83 | 1 | - | |
| RH Vance | run out | 47 | 149 | 183 | 2 | - | |
| MD Crowe | lbw b Gatting | 143 | 333 | 402 | 14 | - | |
| MJ Greatbatch | c DeFreitas b Emburey | 68 | 213 | 252 | 8 | - | |
| KR Rutherford | not out | 107 | 181 | 263 | 12 | - | |
| JG Bracewell | c Fairbrother b Capel | 54 | 111 | 153 | 4 | - | |
| +IDS Smith | not out | 33 | 19 | 37 | 5 | - | |
| DK Morrison | did not bat | ||||||
| SL Boock | did not bat | ||||||
| EJ Chatfield | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (10 lb) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, declared, 784 minutes, 197 overs) | 512 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-33 (Franklin), 2-70 (Wright), 3-132 (Vance), 4-287 (Greatbatch), 5-336 (Crowe), 6-470 (Bracewell) | |||||||
| England bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Dilley | 11 | 1 | 36 | 0 | - | - | |
| DeFreitas | 50.1 | 21 | 110 | 1 | - | - | |
| Capel | 39 | 7 | 129 | 2 | - | - | |
| Emburey | 45.5 | 10 | 99 | 1 | - | - | |
| Hemmings | 45 | 15 | 107 | 0 | - | - | |
| Gatting | 6 | 1 | 21 | 1 | - | - | |
| England first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| BC Broad | b Boock | 61 | 161 | 181 | 7 | - | |
| MD Moxon | not out | 81 | 232 | 285 | 10 | - | |
| RT Robinson | c Smith b Chatfield | 0 | 7 | 9 | - | - | |
| *MW Gatting | not out | 33 | 77 | 93 | 4 | - | |
| NH Fairbrother | did not bat | ||||||
| DJ Capel | did not bat | ||||||
| JE Emburey | did not bat | ||||||
| +BN French | did not bat | ||||||
| PAJ DeFreitas | did not bat | ||||||
| EE Hemmings | did not bat | ||||||
| GR Dilley | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (6 lb, 2 nb) | 8 | |||||
| Total | (2 wickets, 285 minutes, 79 overs) | 183 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-129 (Broad), 2-132 (Robinson) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Morrison | 6 | 0 | 41 | 0 | - | - | |
| Chatfield | 23 | 10 | 38 | 1 | - | - | |
| Bracewell | 23 | 9 | 44 | 0 | - | - | |
| Boock | 26 | 9 | 53 | 1 | - | - | |
| Rutherford | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | |