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| Venue | Eden Park, Auckland on 23rd February 1997 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | England won by 6 wickets (Run rate) |
| Umpires | BF Bowden, DB Cowie |
| TV umpire | CE King |
| Referee | PJP Burge |
| Player of the Match | NV Knight |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| BA Young | c Stewart b Irani | 46 | 59 | 91 | 6 | - | 77.97 |
| NJ Astle | c Stewart b Mullally | 4 | 14 | 18 | - | - | 28.57 |
| AC Parore | run out (Irani) | 2 | 7 | 16 | - | - | 28.57 |
| SP Fleming | c Caddick b Gough | 42 | 74 | 89 | 4 | - | 56.76 |
| CL Cairns | run out (Cork) | 79 | 74 | 104 | 5 | 3 | 106.76 |
| CZ Harris | c sub (C White) b Caddick | 14 | 40 | 50 | 1 | - | 35.00 |
| *+LK Germon | b Caddick | 1 | 6 | 5 | - | - | 16.67 |
| DN Patel | run out (Caddick) | 24 | 21 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 114.29 |
| GR Larsen | not out | 12 | 9 | 12 | 1 | - | 133.33 |
| SB Doull | did not bat | ||||||
| HT Davis | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (9 lb, 4 nb, 16 w) | 29 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 253 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-24 (Astle), 2-44 (Parore), 3-96 (Young), 4-138 (Fleming), 5-189 (Harris), 6-202 (Germon), 7-219 (Cairns), 8-253 (Patel) | |||||||
| England bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Cork | 10 | 0 | 51 | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | 5.10 |
| Mullally | 7 | 0 | 36 | 1 | 6 | - | 42.00 | 5.14 |
| Caddick | 6 | 0 | 33 | 2 | 5 | - | 18.00 | 5.50 |
| Gough | 10 | 0 | 65 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 60.00 | 6.50 |
| Irani | 7 | 0 | 26 | 1 | - | - | 42.00 | 3.71 |
| Croft | 10 | 1 | 33 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 3.30 |
| England innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| NV Knight | not out | 84 | 70 | 93 | 12 | - | 120.00 |
| +AJ Stewart | lbw b Davis | 30 | 27 | 47 | 4 | - | 111.11 |
| DG Cork | c Young b Larsen | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | - | 100.00 |
| RC Irani | c Astle b Doull | 0 | 2 | 4 | - | - | 0.00 |
| GP Thorpe | c and b Doull | 4 | 3 | 6 | 1 | - | 133.33 |
| *N Hussain | not out | 9 | 11 | 22 | - | - | 81.82 |
| JP Crawley | did not bat | ||||||
| RDB Croft | did not bat | ||||||
| D Gough | did not bat | ||||||
| AR Caddick | did not bat | ||||||
| AD Mullally | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (3 w) | 3 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, 19.3 overs) | 134 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-86 (Stewart), 2-91 (Cork), 3-92 (Irani), 4-100 (Thorpe) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Davis | 6 | 1 | 39 | 1 | 2 | - | 36.00 | 6.50 |
| Doull | 5 | 0 | 39 | 2 | 1 | - | 15.00 | 7.80 |
| Larsen | 5 | 0 | 31 | 1 | - | - | 30.00 | 6.20 |
| Harris | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.00 |
| Astle | 1.3 | 0 | 17 | 0 | - | - | - | 11.33 |