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| Venue | Eden Park, Auckland on 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th March 1991 (5-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | New Zealand won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | BL Aldridge, RL McHarg |
| Close of play day 1 | Sri Lanka (1) 325/8 (Labrooy 41*) |
| Close of play day 2 | New Zealand (1) 194/5 (Greatbatch 18*, Patel 9*) |
| Close of play day 3 | Sri Lanka (2) 64/2 (Hathurusingha 16*, PA de Silva 5*) |
| Close of play day 4 | New Zealand (2) 18/0 (Franklin 5*, Wright 12*) |
| Player of the Match | PA de Silva |
| Sri Lanka first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| CP Senanayake | c Smith b Cairns | 20 | 20 | 31 | 3 | - | |
| UC Hathurusingha | b Watson | 13 | 58 | 75 | 1 | - | |
| AP Gurusinha | lbw b Cairns | 50 | 105 | 137 | 7 | - | |
| PA de Silva | c Smith b Cairns | 96 | 141 | 192 | 14 | 2 | |
| *A Ranatunga | c Smith b Cairns | 34 | 66 | 89 | 5 | - | |
| +HP Tillakaratne | lbw b Morrison | 31 | 76 | 108 | 5 | - | |
| ST Jayasuriya | c Smith b Watson | 18 | 22 | 26 | 3 | - | |
| EAR de Silva | c Jones b Patel | 2 | 31 | 39 | - | - | |
| GF Labrooy | not out | 70 | 80 | 89 | 12 | 2 | |
| RJ Ratnayake | c Greatbatch b Watson | 18 | 11 | 19 | 2 | 1 | |
| CPH Ramanayake | c Smith b Morrison | 1 | 32 | 37 | - | - | |
| Extras | (2 b, 15 lb, 9 nb, 1 w) | 27 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 425 minutes, 105 overs) | 380 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-34 (Senanayake), 2-61 (Hathurusingha), 3-132 (Gurusinha), 4-223 (Ranatunga), 5-234 (PA de Silva), 6-255 (Jayasuriya), 7-273 (EAR de Silva), 8-325 (Tillakaratne), 9-356 (Ratnayake), 10-380 (Ramanayake, 105 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Morrison | 21 | 5 | 87 | 2 | - | - | |
| Cairns | 32 | 5 | 136 | 4 | - | - | |
| Watson | 31.5 | 11 | 81 | 3 | - | - | |
| Thomson | 12.1 | 6 | 22 | 0 | - | - | |
| Patel | 8 | 2 | 37 | 1 | - | - | |
| New Zealand first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| TJ Franklin | lbw b Ratnayake | 13 | 70 | 105 | 1 | - | |
| JG Wright | c Ranatunga b Ramanayake | 84 | 168 | 213 | 10 | 1 | |
| AH Jones | c Ratnayake b EAR de Silva | 27 | 69 | 96 | 3 | - | |
| MJ Greatbatch | lbw b Labrooy | 65 | 175 | 266 | 6 | - | |
| KR Rutherford | c Gurusinha b EAR de Silva | 15 | 28 | 38 | 3 | - | |
| SA Thomson | lbw b Ratnayake | 1 | 5 | 4 | - | - | |
| DN Patel | c Labrooy b Ramanayake | 41 | 98 | 128 | 5 | - | |
| *+IDS Smith | b Ratnayake | 3 | 10 | 11 | - | - | |
| CL Cairns | c PA de Silva b Labrooy | 17 | 49 | 60 | 1 | - | |
| DK Morrison | lbw b Labrooy | 7 | 34 | 43 | - | - | |
| W Watson | not out | 5 | 25 | 33 | - | - | |
| Extras | (1 b, 7 lb, 31 nb) | 39 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 504 minutes, 115.3 overs) | 317 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-63 (Franklin), 2-139 (Jones), 3-140 (Wright), 4-170 (Rutherford), 5-172 (Thomson), 6-247 (Patel), 7-257 (Smith), 8-299 (Cairns), 9-304 (Greatbatch), 10-317 (Morrison, 115.3 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Labrooy | 21.3 | 6 | 48 | 3 | - | - | |
| Ramanayake | 26 | 7 | 96 | 2 | - | - | |
| Ratnayake | 33 | 3 | 83 | 3 | - | - | |
| EAR de Silva | 29 | 8 | 67 | 2 | - | - | |
| Gurusinha | 6 | 2 | 15 | 0 | - | - | |
| Sri Lanka second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| CP Senanayake | c Greatbatch b Cairns | 8 | 11 | 16 | - | - | |
| UC Hathurusingha | c Smith b Cairns | 74 | 214 | 249 | 12 | - | |
| AP Gurusinha | c and b Cairns | 29 | 41 | 54 | 2 | 1 | |
| PA de Silva | c Morrison b Thomson | 123 | 193 | 261 | 6 | 5 | |
| *A Ranatunga | c Thomson b Cairns | 30 | 66 | 92 | 1 | 1 | |
| +HP Tillakaratne | c Cairns b Thomson | 3 | 9 | 13 | - | - | |
| ST Jayasuriya | not out | 12 | 28 | 54 | 1 | - | |
| GF Labrooy | c Morrison b Cairns | 1 | 10 | 7 | - | - | |
| EAR de Silva | c Greatbatch b Thomson | 0 | 2 | 3 | - | - | |
| RJ Ratnayake | c Greatbatch b Morrison | 20 | 26 | 32 | - | 2 | |
| CPH Ramanayake | b Morrison | 0 | 3 | 5 | - | - | |
| Extras | (1 b, 5 lb, 13 nb) | 19 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 397 minutes, 98 overs) | 319 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-9 (Senanayake), 2-56 (Gurusinha), 3-201 (Hathurusingha), 4-276 (PA de Silva), 5-282 (Tillakaratne), 6-282 (Ranatunga), 7-285 (Labrooy), 8-288 (EAR de Silva), 9-319 (Ratnayake), 10-319 (Ramanayake, 98 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Morrison | 20 | 2 | 74 | 2 | - | - | |
| Cairns | 27 | 6 | 75 | 5 | - | - | |
| Watson | 9 | 1 | 23 | 0 | - | - | |
| Thomson | 19 | 5 | 63 | 3 | - | - | |
| Patel | 23 | 6 | 78 | 0 | - | - | |
| New Zealand second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| TJ Franklin | c Tillakaratne b Labrooy | 31 | 89 | 135 | 4 | - | |
| JG Wright | c Tillakaratne b Ramanayake | 20 | 53 | 66 | 3 | - | |
| AH Jones | lbw b Labrooy | 73 | 219 | 249 | 4 | - | |
| MJ Greatbatch | b Labrooy | 7 | 35 | 40 | - | - | |
| KR Rutherford | lbw b Labrooy | 6 | 21 | 30 | - | - | |
| SA Thomson | not out | 80 | 144 | 169 | 8 | 1 | |
| DN Patel | not out | 16 | 56 | 60 | 3 | - | |
| *+IDS Smith | did not bat | ||||||
| CL Cairns | did not bat | ||||||
| DK Morrison | did not bat | ||||||
| W Watson | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 9 lb, 18 nb) | 28 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, 377 minutes, 99 overs) | 261 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-39 (Wright), 2-80 (Franklin), 3-95 (Greatbatch), 4-117 (Rutherford), 5-217 (Jones) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Ratnayake | 21 | 3 | 44 | 0 | - | - | |
| Ramanayake | 19 | 4 | 62 | 1 | - | - | |
| EAR de Silva | 25 | 4 | 61 | 0 | - | - | |
| Labrooy | 19 | 6 | 42 | 4 | - | - | |
| Ranatunga | 7 | 1 | 23 | 0 | - | - | |
| Jayasuriya | 6 | 1 | 18 | 0 | - | - | |
| Gurusinha | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | - | - | |