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| Venue | Eden Park, Auckland on 28th January 1996 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | New Zealand won by 74 runs |
| Umpires | BF Bowden, RS Dunne |
| TV umpire | DB Cowie |
| Referee | Nasim-ul-Ghani |
| Player of the Match | NJ Astle |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| CM Spearman | c Whittall b Streak | 22 | 23 | 31 | 3 | 1 | 95.65 |
| NJ Astle | c Campbell b Peall | 120 | 137 | 182 | 13 | 1 | 87.59 |
| SP Fleming | run out (PA Strang) | 2 | 20 | 29 | - | - | 10.00 |
| RG Twose | c Brandes b PA Strang | 53 | 69 | 99 | 5 | 1 | 76.81 |
| CL Cairns | run out (Campbell) | 23 | 25 | 31 | - | 1 | 92.00 |
| AC Parore | not out | 26 | 18 | 25 | 1 | - | 144.44 |
| SA Thomson | not out | 11 | 11 | 14 | 1 | - | 100.00 |
| *+LK Germon | did not bat | ||||||
| DN Patel | did not bat | ||||||
| GR Larsen | did not bat | ||||||
| DK Morrison | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (6 lb, 1 nb, 14 w) | 21 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 278 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-40 (Spearman), 2-61 (Fleming), 3-196 (Twose), 4-232 (Astle), 5-252 (Cairns) | |||||||
| Zimbabwe bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Streak | 10 | 0 | 32 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 60.00 | 3.20 |
| Brandes | 6 | 0 | 58 | 0 | 3 | - | - | 9.67 |
| BC Strang | 7 | 0 | 34 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.86 |
| Whittall | 10 | 0 | 58 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 5.80 |
| Peall | 7 | 0 | 48 | 1 | 1 | - | 42.00 | 6.86 |
| PA Strang | 10 | 0 | 42 | 1 | 4 | - | 60.00 | 4.20 |
| Zimbabwe innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| GW Flower | c Parore b Larsen | 46 | 48 | 64 | 6 | - | 95.83 |
| CN Evans | lbw b Morrison | 1 | 11 | 8 | - | - | 9.09 |
| GJ Whittall | run out (Twose) | 70 | 73 | 103 | 9 | - | 95.89 |
| *+A Flower | c Larsen b Thomson | 21 | 17 | 19 | 2 | - | 123.53 |
| ADR Campbell | c sub (DJ Nash) b Thomson | 23 | 47 | 46 | 2 | - | 48.94 |
| SG Davies | c Fleming b Thomson | 3 | 12 | 13 | - | - | 25.00 |
| HH Streak | c Spearman b Larsen | 17 | 31 | 35 | 1 | - | 54.84 |
| PA Strang | c Thomson b Larsen | 11 | 16 | 22 | - | - | 68.75 |
| EA Brandes | b Morrison | 1 | 9 | 14 | - | - | 11.11 |
| SG Peall | c Patel b Morrison | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| BC Strang | not out | 0 | 0 | 3 | - | - | 0.00 |
| Extras | (2 lb, 5 nb, 4 w) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 43.5 overs) | 204 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-6 (Evans), 2-91 (GW Flower), 3-117 (A Flower), 4-158 (Whittall), 5-170 (Davies), 6-171 (Campbell), 7-193 (PA Strang), 8-200 (Streak), 9-200 (Peall), 10-204 (Brandes) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Morrison | 6.5 | 0 | 34 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 13.67 | 4.98 |
| Patel | 10 | 0 | 44 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.40 |
| Larsen | 8 | 0 | 42 | 3 | - | - | 16.00 | 5.25 |
| Astle | 5 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 5.60 |
| Thomson | 10 | 1 | 32 | 3 | - | - | 20.00 | 3.20 |
| Twose | 4 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 5.50 |