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| Venue | Basin Reserve, Wellington on 4th March 1997 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | New Zealand won by 28 runs |
| Umpires | RS Dunne, EA Watkin |
| TV umpire | DM Quested |
| Referee | PJP Burge |
| Scorer | C Styles (New Zealand) |
| Player of the Match | NJ Astle |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| BA Young | c Russell b Caddick | 11 | 23 | 29 | 1 | - | 47.83 |
| NJ Astle | c Atherton b Caddick | 94 | 129 | 184 | 10 | - | 72.87 |
| SP Fleming | lbw b Croft | 17 | 34 | 50 | 3 | - | 50.00 |
| CL Cairns | c Russell b White | 1 | 2 | 4 | - | - | 50.00 |
| AC Parore | lbw b Caddick | 18 | 27 | 29 | 2 | - | 66.67 |
| CZ Harris | c Stewart b Gough | 36 | 51 | 81 | 1 | - | 70.59 |
| *+LK Germon | lbw b Silverwood | 2 | 6 | 5 | - | - | 33.33 |
| DN Patel | not out | 16 | 19 | 24 | 1 | - | 84.21 |
| GR Larsen | run out (Croft) | 0 | 1 | 4 | - | - | 0.00 |
| HT Davis | not out | 7 | 11 | 13 | - | - | 63.64 |
| GI Allott | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (10 lb, 2 nb, 14 w) | 26 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, innings closed, 216 minutes, 50 overs) | 228 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-28 (Young), 2-84 (Fleming), 3-87 (Cairns), 4-122 (Parore), 5-197 (Astle), 6-200 (Germon), 7-206 (Harris), 8-208 (Larsen) | |||||||
| England bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Caddick | 10 | 1 | 35 | 3 | 3 | - | 20.00 | 3.50 |
| Silverwood | 10 | 0 | 53 | 1 | 8 | - | 60.00 | 5.30 |
| Gough | 10 | 1 | 48 | 1 | - | 1 | 60.00 | 4.80 |
| White | 10 | 0 | 44 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 60.00 | 4.40 |
| Croft | 10 | 1 | 38 | 1 | 2 | - | 60.00 | 3.80 |
| England innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| *MA Atherton | run out (Harris) | 43 | 82 | 106 | 5 | - | 52.44 |
| AJ Stewart | c Patel b Allott | 18 | 23 | 37 | 3 | - | 78.26 |
| N Hussain | st Germon b Harris | 20 | 28 | 37 | 3 | - | 71.43 |
| GP Thorpe | st Germon b Larsen | 55 | 82 | 99 | 3 | - | 67.07 |
| CEW Silverwood | b Patel | 4 | 8 | 11 | - | - | 50.00 |
| JP Crawley | lbw b Larsen | 11 | 16 | 16 | 1 | - | 68.75 |
| +RC Russell | c Germon b Astle | 2 | 5 | 6 | - | - | 40.00 |
| C White | c Germon b Astle | 0 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| RDB Croft | run out (Parore->Astle) | 2 | 8 | 14 | - | - | 25.00 |
| D Gough | c Fleming b Davis | 16 | 21 | 31 | 1 | - | 76.19 |
| AR Caddick | not out | 12 | 13 | 17 | 1 | - | 92.31 |
| Extras | (8 lb, 1 nb, 8 w) | 17 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 194 minutes, 47.5 overs) | 200 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-43 (Stewart), 2-77 (Hussain), 3-107 (Atherton), 4-119 (Silverwood), 5-136 (Crawley), 6-139 (Russell), 7-139 (White), 8-158 (Croft), 9-173 (Thorpe), 10-200 (Gough) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Allott | 8 | 0 | 40 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 48.00 | 5.00 |
| Davis | 7.5 | 0 | 44 | 1 | 2 | - | 47.00 | 5.62 |
| Larsen | 10 | 0 | 31 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 3.10 |
| Harris | 10 | 2 | 22 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 2.20 |
| Patel | 7 | 0 | 29 | 1 | 1 | - | 42.00 | 4.14 |
| Astle | 5 | 0 | 26 | 2 | 1 | - | 15.00 | 5.20 |