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| Venue | Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad on 20th February 1996 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | South Africa won by 5 wickets |
| Points | New Zealand 0; South Africa 2 |
| Umpires | SG Randell, S Venkataraghavan |
| TV umpire | SK Bansal |
| Referee | RS Madugalle |
| Player of the Match | WJ Cronje |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| CM Spearman | c Palframan b Matthews | 14 | 14 | 16 | 3 | - | 100.00 |
| NJ Astle | run out | 1 | 4 | 7 | - | - | 25.00 |
| SP Fleming | b McMillan | 33 | 79 | 99 | 2 | - | 41.77 |
| RG Twose | c McMillan b Pollock | 13 | 17 | 20 | 2 | - | 76.47 |
| CL Cairns | b Donald | 9 | 20 | 30 | 2 | - | 45.00 |
| AC Parore | run out | 27 | 48 | 78 | - | - | 56.25 |
| CZ Harris | run out | 8 | 21 | 22 | - | - | 38.10 |
| SA Thomson | c Cronje b Donald | 29 | 54 | 56 | 4 | - | 53.70 |
| *+LK Germon | not out | 31 | 33 | 52 | 2 | - | 93.94 |
| GR Larsen | c Cullinan b Donald | 1 | 7 | 9 | - | - | 14.29 |
| DK Morrison | not out | 5 | 6 | 7 | - | - | 83.33 |
| Extras | (4 lb, 2 nb) | 6 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 177 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-7 (Astle), 2-17 (Spearman), 3-36 (Twose), 4-54 (Cairns), 5-85 (Fleming), 6-103 (Harris), 7-116 (Parore), 8-158 (Thomson), 9-165 (Larsen) | |||||||
| South Africa bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Pollock | 10 | 1 | 45 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 4.50 |
| Matthews | 10 | 2 | 30 | 1 | - | 1 | 60.00 | 3.00 |
| Donald | 10 | 0 | 34 | 3 | - | - | 20.00 | 3.40 |
| Cronje | 3 | 0 | 13 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.33 |
| Symcox | 10 | 1 | 25 | 0 | - | - | - | 2.50 |
| McMillan | 7 | 1 | 26 | 1 | - | 1 | 42.00 | 3.71 |
| South Africa innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| G Kirsten | lbw b Harris | 35 | 46 | 61 | 5 | - | 76.09 |
| +SJ Palframan | b Morrison | 16 | 26 | 33 | 3 | - | 61.54 |
| *WJ Cronje | c Fleming b Astle | 78 | 64 | 73 | 11 | 3 | 121.88 |
| DJ Cullinan | c Thomson b Astle | 27 | 42 | 58 | 2 | - | 64.29 |
| JH Kallis | not out | 11 | 25 | 35 | 1 | - | 44.00 |
| JN Rhodes | c and b Larsen | 9 | 13 | 10 | 1 | - | 69.23 |
| BM McMillan | not out | 2 | 10 | 11 | - | - | 20.00 |
| SM Pollock | did not bat | ||||||
| PL Symcox | did not bat | ||||||
| CR Matthews | did not bat | ||||||
| AA Donald | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | 0 | ||||||
| Total | (5 wickets, 37.3 overs) | 178 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-41 (Palframan), 2-87 (Kirsten), 3-146 (Cronje), 4-159 (Cullinan), 5-170 (Rhodes) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Morrison | 8 | 0 | 44 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 5.50 |
| Cairns | 6 | 0 | 24 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.00 |
| Larsen | 8 | 1 | 41 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 5.12 |
| Harris | 4 | 0 | 25 | 1 | - | - | 24.00 | 6.25 |
| Thomson | 8.3 | 0 | 34 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.00 |
| Astle | 3 | 1 | 10 | 2 | - | - | 9.00 | 3.33 |