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| Venue | Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah on 18th April 1994 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | New Zealand won by 2 runs |
| Points | New Zealand 2; Sri Lanka 0 |
| Umpires | SB Lambson, KE Liebenberg |
| TV umpire | K Kanjee |
| Referee | AM Ebrahim |
| Player of the Match | AP Gurusinha |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| BR Hartland | run out | 5 | 9 | 10 | 1 | - | 55.56 |
| BA Young | c Jayasuriya b Gurusinha | 34 | 59 | 88 | 3 | - | 57.63 |
| +AC Parore | c Dassanayake b Jayasuriya | 37 | 72 | 104 | 3 | - | 51.39 |
| MW Douglas | run out | 30 | 54 | 67 | 1 | 1 | 55.56 |
| SP Fleming | c Tillakaratne b Kalpage | 14 | 16 | 22 | - | 1 | 87.50 |
| SA Thomson | c Chandana b Vaas | 50 | 42 | 58 | 3 | 2 | 119.05 |
| CZ Harris | c Chandana b Ramanayake | 22 | 35 | 55 | - | - | 62.86 |
| DJ Nash | run out | 2 | 4 | 5 | - | - | 50.00 |
| *GR Larsen | not out | 14 | 9 | 12 | - | 1 | 155.56 |
| C Pringle | not out | 0 | 0 | 3 | - | - | 0.00 |
| HT Davis | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 5 lb, 3 w) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 217 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-12 (Hartland), 2-68 (Young), 3-94 (Parore), 4-121 (Fleming), 5-135 (Douglas), 6-194 (Thomson), 7-198 (Nash), 8-206 (Harris) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Ramanayake | 10 | 1 | 41 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 4.10 |
| Vaas | 10 | 1 | 31 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 3.10 |
| Weerakkody | 6 | 0 | 41 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 6.83 |
| Gurusinha | 10 | 1 | 30 | 1 | 1 | - | 60.00 | 3.00 |
| Jayasuriya | 7 | 0 | 37 | 1 | - | - | 42.00 | 5.29 |
| Kalpage | 7 | 0 | 31 | 1 | - | - | 42.00 | 4.43 |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| *RS Mahanama | lbw b Pringle | 18 | 23 | 21 | 3 | - | 78.26 |
| MAR Samarasekera | c Fleming b Nash | 4 | 11 | 24 | - | - | 36.36 |
| AP Gurusinha | not out | 117 | 140 | 190 | 9 | 1 | 83.57 |
| ST Jayasuriya | c Davis b Nash | 5 | 7 | 7 | 1 | - | 71.43 |
| HP Tillakaratne | run out | 0 | 11 | 15 | - | - | 0.00 |
| UDU Chandana | c Young b Nash | 26 | 69 | 100 | 1 | - | 37.68 |
| RS Kalpage | c Harris b Thomson | 6 | 11 | 15 | - | - | 54.55 |
| +PB Dassanayake | c Parore b Larsen | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | 166.67 |
| CPH Ramanayake | b Pringle | 21 | 21 | 25 | 1 | - | 100.00 |
| AP Weerakkody | c Nash b Pringle | 2 | 4 | 10 | - | - | 50.00 |
| WPUJC Vaas | not out | 1 | 2 | 6 | - | - | 50.00 |
| Extras | (1 b, 6 lb, 3 w) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 215 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-24 (Samarasekera), 2-24 (Mahanama), 3-30 (Jayasuriya), 4-41 (Tillakaratne), 5-129 (Chandana), 6-147 (Kalpage), 7-152 (Dassanayake), 8-189 (Ramanayake), 9-202 (Weerakkody) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Pringle | 10 | 1 | 46 | 3 | 2 | - | 20.00 | 4.60 |
| Davis | 2 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 7.00 |
| Nash | 10 | 1 | 43 | 3 | - | - | 20.00 | 4.30 |
| Larsen | 10 | 1 | 34 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 3.40 |
| Harris | 9 | 0 | 33 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.67 |
| Thomson | 9 | 0 | 38 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 4.22 |