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| Venue | McLean Park, Napier on 3rd February 1996 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | New Zealand won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Zimbabwe won by 21 runs |
| Umpires | RS Dunne, DM Quested |
| TV umpire | CE King |
| Referee | Nasim-ul-Ghani |
| Player of the Match | A Flower |
| Zimbabwe innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| GW Flower | c Astle b Morrison | 7 | 19 | 23 | 1 | - | 36.84 |
| CN Evans | c Fleming b Morrison | 0 | 4 | 9 | - | - | 0.00 |
| GJ Whittall | c Harris b Morrison | 12 | 21 | 34 | 1 | - | 57.14 |
| *+A Flower | lbw b Patel | 57 | 67 | 101 | 5 | - | 85.07 |
| ADR Campbell | c Germon b Nash | 26 | 33 | 47 | 2 | 1 | 78.79 |
| SG Davies | run out | 45 | 80 | 97 | 3 | 1 | 56.25 |
| SV Carlisle | run out | 25 | 35 | 50 | 1 | - | 71.43 |
| HH Streak | not out | 36 | 28 | 36 | 4 | - | 128.57 |
| PA Strang | not out | 24 | 17 | 22 | 2 | - | 141.18 |
| ACI Lock | did not bat | ||||||
| EA Brandes | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 11 lb, 4 nb, 19 w) | 35 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 267 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-6 (Evans), 2-18 (GW Flower), 3-38 (Whittall), 4-93 (Campbell), 5-133 (A Flower), 6-199 (Carlisle), 7-213 (Davies) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Morrison | 10 | 2 | 39 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 20.00 | 3.90 |
| Kennedy | 9 | 0 | 67 | 0 | 12 | 5 | - | 7.44 |
| Patel | 10 | 0 | 49 | 1 | 1 | - | 60.00 | 4.90 |
| Nash | 10 | 2 | 39 | 1 | 2 | - | 60.00 | 3.90 |
| Astle | 6 | 1 | 36 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 6.00 |
| Harris | 5 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | 5.00 |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| CM Spearman | lbw b Brandes | 28 | 26 | 61 | 2 | 1 | 107.69 |
| NJ Astle | c A Flower b Brandes | 30 | 37 | 56 | 1 | 2 | 81.08 |
| SP Fleming | lbw b Strang | 50 | 64 | 97 | 6 | - | 78.12 |
| RG Twose | lbw b Lock | 60 | 95 | 158 | 2 | - | 63.16 |
| AC Parore | c Streak b GW Flower | 3 | 7 | 5 | - | - | 42.86 |
| CZ Harris | c A Flower b Strang | 22 | 28 | 27 | 3 | - | 78.57 |
| *+LK Germon | b Lock | 7 | 15 | 25 | - | - | 46.67 |
| DN Patel | c and b Lock | 4 | 6 | 11 | - | - | 66.67 |
| DJ Nash | b Lock | 4 | 8 | 19 | - | - | 50.00 |
| DK Morrison | lbw b Lock | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 50.00 |
| RJ Kennedy | not out | 8 | 5 | 8 | 1 | - | 160.00 |
| Extras | (11 lb, 4 nb, 14 w) | 29 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 48.1 overs) | 246 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-65 (Astle), 2-72 (Spearman), 3-164 (Fleming), 4-169 (Parore), 5-201 (Harris), 6-228 (Germon), 7-229 (Twose), 8-233 (Patel), 9-235 (Morrison), 10-246 (Nash) | |||||||
| Zimbabwe bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Streak | 9 | 0 | 45 | 0 | 7 | 2 | - | 5.00 |
| Lock | 8.1 | 0 | 44 | 5 | 2 | - | 9.80 | 5.39 |
| Brandes | 8 | 1 | 37 | 2 | 1 | - | 24.00 | 4.62 |
| Strang | 10 | 0 | 44 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 4.40 |
| Whittall | 9 | 0 | 49 | 0 | 4 | 2 | - | 5.44 |
| GW Flower | 4 | 0 | 16 | 1 | - | - | 24.00 | 4.00 |