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| Venue | Lancaster Park, Christchurch on 25th March 1997 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Sri Lanka won by 6 wickets |
| Umpires | CE King, DM Quested |
| Referee | PJP Burge |
| Player of the Match | ST Jayasuriya |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| BA Young | b Zoysa | 21 | 31 | 46 | 2 | - | 67.74 |
| NJ Astle | c Mahanama b Zoysa | 23 | 36 | 34 | 3 | - | 63.89 |
| MJ Horne | b Muralitharan | 13 | 14 | 29 | - | - | 92.86 |
| *SP Fleming | run out | 31 | 42 | 60 | 4 | - | 73.81 |
| CL Cairns | c Dharmasena b Jayasuriya | 27 | 59 | 69 | - | - | 45.76 |
| +AC Parore | c and b Jayasuriya | 19 | 33 | 37 | 1 | - | 57.58 |
| CZ Harris | not out | 38 | 37 | 65 | 3 | 1 | 102.70 |
| GR Larsen | c de Silva b Muralitharan | 13 | 21 | 18 | 2 | - | 61.90 |
| SB Doull | c and b Jayasuriya | 1 | 6 | 9 | - | - | 16.67 |
| DL Vettori | lbw b de Silva | 4 | 12 | 7 | - | - | 33.33 |
| HT Davis | not out | 4 | 9 | 17 | - | - | 44.44 |
| Extras | (1 lb, 4 nb, 2 w) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 201 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-39 (Astle), 2-49 (Young), 3-68 (Horne), 4-104 (Fleming), 5-134 (Cairns), 6-142 (Parore), 7-157 (Larsen), 8-164 (Doull), 9-170 (Vettori) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Vaas | 7 | 0 | 45 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.43 |
| Zoysa | 7 | 1 | 29 | 2 | 2 | - | 21.00 | 4.14 |
| Dharmasena | 10 | 0 | 32 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.20 |
| Muralitharan | 10 | 1 | 42 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 4.20 |
| Jayasuriya | 10 | 0 | 26 | 3 | - | - | 20.00 | 2.60 |
| Chandana | 4 | 0 | 22 | 0 | - | 4 | - | 5.50 |
| de Silva | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | - | - | 12.00 | 2.00 |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| ST Jayasuriya | c Larsen b Harris | 79 | 62 | 96 | 8 | 4 | 127.42 |
| +RS Kaluwitharana | c Cairns b Harris | 15 | 19 | 40 | 3 | - | 78.95 |
| RS Mahanama | c Cairns b Larsen | 4 | 7 | 7 | 1 | - | 57.14 |
| PA de Silva | b Astle | 66 | 69 | 98 | 6 | 3 | 95.65 |
| *A Ranatunga | not out | 19 | 30 | 75 | 1 | - | 63.33 |
| HP Tillakaratne | not out | 13 | 28 | 24 | 2 | - | 46.43 |
| HDPK Dharmasena | did not bat | ||||||
| UDU Chandana | did not bat | ||||||
| WPUJC Vaas | did not bat | ||||||
| DNT Zoysa | did not bat | ||||||
| M Muralitharan | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 2 nb, 3 w) | 6 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, 35.5 overs) | 202 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-68 (Kaluwitharana), 2-73 (Mahanama), 3-137 (Jayasuriya), 4-183 (de Silva) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Doull | 5.5 | 1 | 38 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 6.51 |
| Davis | 8 | 0 | 58 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 7.25 |
| Harris | 10 | 0 | 38 | 2 | - | 2 | 30.00 | 3.80 |
| Larsen | 5 | 0 | 23 | 1 | - | - | 30.00 | 4.60 |
| Vettori | 2 | 0 | 21 | 0 | - | - | - | 10.50 |
| Astle | 5 | 0 | 23 | 1 | - | - | 30.00 | 4.60 |