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| Venue | Eden Park, Auckland on 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th January 1997 (5-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | England won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | SA Bucknor, RS Dunne |
| TV umpire | DB Cowie |
| Referee | PJP Burge |
| Close of play day 1 | New Zealand (1) 233/5 (Fleming 58*, Cairns 15*) |
| Close of play day 2 | England (1) 123/1 (Atherton 48*, Stewart 67*) |
| Close of play day 3 | England (1) 366/6 (Thorpe 57*, Cork 16*) |
| Close of play day 4 | New Zealand (2) 56/3 (Parore 16*, Germon 4*) |
| Player of the Match | AJ Stewart, NJ Astle |
| New Zealand first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| BA Young | lbw b Mullally | 44 | 119 | 141 | 5 | - | |
| BA Pocock | lbw b Gough | 70 | 197 | 286 | 8 | - | |
| AC Parore | c Stewart b Cork | 6 | 28 | 48 | 1 | - | |
| SP Fleming | c and b Cork | 129 | 254 | 368 | 18 | 1 | |
| NJ Astle | c Stewart b White | 10 | 25 | 27 | 2 | - | |
| JTC Vaughan | lbw b Cork | 3 | 21 | 25 | - | - | |
| CL Cairns | c Stewart b White | 67 | 113 | 140 | 7 | 2 | |
| *+LK Germon | c Stewart b Gough | 14 | 26 | 40 | 1 | 1 | |
| DN Patel | lbw b Gough | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| SB Doull | c Knight b Gough | 5 | 10 | 16 | 1 | - | |
| DK Morrison | not out | 6 | 15 | 17 | - | - | |
| Extras | (5 b, 12 lb, 17 nb, 2 w) | 36 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 560 minutes, 131.5 overs) | 390 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-85 (Young), 2-114 (Parore), 3-193 (Pocock), 4-210 (Astle), 5-215 (Vaughan), 6-333 (Cairns), 7-362 (Germon), 8-362 (Patel), 9-380 (Doull), 10-390 (Fleming) | |||||||
| England bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Cork | 32.5 | 8 | 96 | 3 | - | 4 | |
| Mullally | 27 | 11 | 55 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
| Gough | 32 | 5 | 91 | 4 | - | 6 | |
| Tufnell | 25 | 5 | 80 | 0 | - | - | |
| White | 15 | 3 | 51 | 2 | - | 4 | |
| England first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| NV Knight | lbw b Doull | 5 | 28 | 31 | 1 | - | |
| *MA Atherton | c and b Patel | 83 | 213 | 273 | 11 | - | |
| +AJ Stewart | c and b Doull | 173 | 277 | 362 | 23 | 1 | |
| N Hussain | c Fleming b Patel | 8 | 22 | 25 | 1 | - | |
| GP Thorpe | hit wkt b Cairns | 119 | 245 | 341 | 17 | - | |
| JP Crawley | run out (Doull) | 14 | 43 | 61 | 1 | - | |
| C White | lbw b Vaughan | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | |
| DG Cork | c Young b Morrison | 59 | 192 | 236 | 6 | 1 | |
| D Gough | c Germon b Morrison | 2 | 19 | 29 | - | - | |
| AD Mullally | c Germon b Morrison | 21 | 40 | 83 | 2 | - | |
| PCR Tufnell | not out | 19 | 49 | 55 | 2 | - | |
| Extras | (2 b, 12 lb, 2 nb, 2 w) | 18 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 753 minutes, 187.4 overs) | 521 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-18 (Knight), 2-200 (Atherton), 3-222 (Hussain), 4-304 (Stewart), 5-339 (Crawley), 6-339 (White), 7-453 (Thorpe), 8-471 (Gough), 9-478 (Cork), 10-521 (Mullally) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Morrison | 24.4 | 4 | 104 | 3 | - | 3 | |
| Doull | 39 | 10 | 118 | 2 | 1 | - | |
| Cairns | 30 | 3 | 103 | 1 | 1 | - | |
| Astle | 14 | 3 | 33 | 0 | - | - | |
| Vaughan | 36 | 10 | 57 | 1 | - | - | |
| Patel | 44 | 10 | 92 | 2 | - | - | |
| New Zealand second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| BA Pocock | lbw b Gough | 20 | 62 | 74 | 2 | - | |
| BA Young | c Hussain b Cork | 3 | 24 | 35 | - | - | |
| AC Parore | st Stewart b Tufnell | 33 | 106 | 138 | 4 | - | |
| SP Fleming | c Crawley b Tufnell | 9 | 31 | 36 | - | - | |
| *+LK Germon | run out (Hussain) | 13 | 36 | 53 | 3 | - | |
| NJ Astle | not out | 102 | 214 | 279 | 13 | - | |
| JTC Vaughan | lbw b Tufnell | 2 | 10 | 16 | - | - | |
| CL Cairns | b Mullally | 7 | 23 | 24 | 1 | - | |
| DN Patel | lbw b Mullally | 0 | 15 | 23 | - | - | |
| SB Doull | b Gough | 26 | 40 | 37 | 4 | - | |
| DK Morrison | not out | 14 | 133 | 166 | - | - | |
| Extras | (11 lb, 8 nb) | 19 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, declared, 445 minutes, 114 overs) | 248 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-17 (Young), 2-28 (Pocock), 3-47 (Fleming), 4-88 (Germon), 5-90 (Parore), 6-92 (Vaughan), 7-101 (Cairns), 8-105 (Patel), 9-142 (Doull) | |||||||
| England bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Cork | 16 | 3 | 45 | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Mullally | 26 | 11 | 47 | 2 | - | 3 | |
| White | 10 | 2 | 26 | 0 | - | 1 | |
| Gough | 22 | 3 | 66 | 2 | - | 4 | |
| Tufnell | 40 | 18 | 53 | 3 | - | 2 | |