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| Venue | Buffalo Park, East London on 18th December 1994 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Sri Lanka won by 5 wickets |
| Points | New Zealand 0; Sri Lanka 2 |
| Umpires | CJ Mitchley, DL Orchard |
| TV umpire | RE Koertzen |
| Referee | PJP Burge |
| Man of the Match | KR Rutherford |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| BA Young | c Tillakaratne b Wickramasinghe | 24 | 56 | 67 | - | - | 42.86 |
| BR Hartland | b Kalpage | 32 | 49 | 73 | 4 | - | 65.31 |
| +AC Parore | c Tillakaratne b Pushpakumara | 67 | 83 | 100 | 3 | 1 | 80.72 |
| *KR Rutherford | not out | 102 | 98 | 130 | 7 | 2 | 104.08 |
| SP Fleming | c Wickramasinghe b Vaas | 5 | 10 | 15 | - | - | 50.00 |
| SA Thomson | not out | 11 | 10 | 17 | - | - | 110.00 |
| CZ Harris | did not bat | ||||||
| DJ Nash | did not bat | ||||||
| ML Su'a | did not bat | ||||||
| MW Priest | did not bat | ||||||
| C Pringle | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (11 lb, 3 w) | 14 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 255 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-63 (Young), 2-63 (Hartland), 3-199 (Parore), 4-220 (Fleming) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Pushpakumara | 10 | 1 | 50 | 1 | 2 | - | 60.00 | 5.00 |
| Vaas | 10 | 1 | 33 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 3.30 |
| Wickramasinghe | 9 | 1 | 42 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 4.67 |
| Kalpage | 7 | 1 | 42 | 1 | - | - | 42.00 | 6.00 |
| Muralitharan | 9 | 1 | 50 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 5.56 |
| Jayasuriya | 5 | 0 | 27 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.40 |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| ST Jayasuriya | c Parore b Pringle | 52 | 31 | 59 | 5 | 3 | 167.74 |
| RS Mahanama | c Fleming b Nash | 1 | 2 | 5 | - | - | 50.00 |
| AP Gurusinha | c and b Thomson | 47 | 59 | 69 | 4 | - | 79.66 |
| PA de Silva | c Hartland b Harris | 4 | 10 | 18 | 1 | - | 40.00 |
| *A Ranatunga | c Parore b Nash | 32 | 45 | 51 | 4 | - | 71.11 |
| +HP Tillakaratne | not out | 68 | 86 | 114 | 6 | - | 79.07 |
| RS Kalpage | not out | 43 | 53 | 64 | 2 | - | 81.13 |
| KR Pushpakumara | did not bat | ||||||
| WPUJC Vaas | did not bat | ||||||
| GP Wickramasinghe | did not bat | ||||||
| M Muralitharan | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 5 lb, 3 w) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, 47.1 overs) | 257 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-15 (Mahanama), 2-102 (Jayasuriya), 3-110 (Gurusinha), 4-110 (de Silva), 5-166 (Ranatunga) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Pringle | 8 | 1 | 73 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 9.12 |
| Nash | 10 | 0 | 52 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 5.20 |
| Su'a | 3.1 | 0 | 23 | 0 | - | - | - | 7.26 |
| Thomson | 10 | 1 | 37 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 3.70 |
| Harris | 10 | 0 | 40 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 4.00 |
| Priest | 6 | 0 | 25 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.17 |