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| Venue | Lancaster Park, Christchurch on 20th February 1997 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | England won by 4 wickets |
| Umpires | CE King, DM Quested |
| TV umpire | RS Dunne |
| Referee | PJP Burge |
| Player of the Match | PCR Tufnell |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| BA Young | c Thorpe b Mullally | 14 | 20 | 21 | 2 | - | 70.00 |
| NJ Astle | c Thorpe b Tufnell | 50 | 62 | 84 | 6 | - | 80.65 |
| AC Parore | c and b Tufnell | 26 | 51 | 78 | 1 | - | 50.98 |
| SP Fleming | st Stewart b Tufnell | 34 | 55 | 64 | 1 | - | 61.82 |
| CL Cairns | c Mullally b Tufnell | 15 | 31 | 31 | 1 | - | 48.39 |
| CZ Harris | not out | 48 | 51 | 69 | 2 | - | 94.12 |
| *+LK Germon | b Cork | 19 | 29 | 43 | 1 | - | 65.52 |
| DN Patel | not out | 1 | 3 | 7 | - | - | 33.33 |
| GR Larsen | did not bat | ||||||
| SB Doull | did not bat | ||||||
| HT Davis | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 7 lb, 2 nb, 4 w) | 15 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 222 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-24 (Young), 2-87 (Astle), 3-100 (Parore), 4-134 (Cairns), 5-148 (Fleming), 6-203 (Germon) | |||||||
| England bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Cork | 9 | 0 | 52 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 54.00 | 5.78 |
| Mullally | 5 | 2 | 21 | 1 | - | - | 30.00 | 4.20 |
| Croft | 10 | 1 | 41 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.10 |
| Gough | 10 | 0 | 45 | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | 4.50 |
| Tufnell | 10 | 1 | 22 | 4 | - | - | 15.00 | 2.20 |
| Thorpe | 6 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 5.33 |
| England innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| NV Knight | c Germon b Doull | 8 | 15 | 26 | - | - | 53.33 |
| *MA Atherton | b Patel | 19 | 21 | 23 | 3 | - | 90.48 |
| +AJ Stewart | c Astle b Davis | 81 | 110 | 159 | 8 | 1 | 73.64 |
| GP Thorpe | b Davis | 82 | 104 | 147 | 8 | 1 | 78.85 |
| N Hussain | not out | 11 | 28 | 37 | - | - | 39.29 |
| JP Crawley | b Doull | 0 | 4 | 4 | - | - | 0.00 |
| DG Cork | c Young b Davis | 5 | 9 | 20 | - | - | 55.56 |
| RDB Croft | not out | 8 | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | 400.00 |
| D Gough | did not bat | ||||||
| AD Mullally | did not bat | ||||||
| PCR Tufnell | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (6 lb, 6 w) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, 48.5 overs) | 226 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-28 (Atherton), 2-28 (Knight), 3-198 (Thorpe), 4-205 (Stewart), 5-207 (Crawley), 6-218 (Cork) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Doull | 10 | 0 | 33 | 2 | 1 | - | 30.00 | 3.30 |
| Patel | 7 | 0 | 43 | 1 | - | - | 42.00 | 6.14 |
| Astle | 4 | 0 | 26 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.50 |
| Cairns | 4 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 6.25 |
| Davis | 8.5 | 0 | 44 | 3 | 2 | - | 17.67 | 4.98 |
| Larsen | 8 | 0 | 23 | 0 | - | - | - | 2.88 |
| Harris | 7 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 3.71 |