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| Venue | Basin Reserve, Wellington on 27th March 1997 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | New Zealand won by 69 runs |
| Umpires | RS Dunne, EA Watkin |
| Referee | PJP Burge |
| Scorer | C Styles (New Zealand) |
| Player of the Match | CL Cairns |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| BA Young | lbw b Vaas | 2 | 9 | 20 | - | - | 22.22 |
| NJ Astle | c Muralitharan b Zoysa | 12 | 17 | 17 | 1 | - | 70.59 |
| MJ Horne | c Kaluwitharana b Muralitharan | 14 | 24 | 53 | - | - | 58.33 |
| *SP Fleming | c Tillakaratne b Zoysa | 9 | 13 | 14 | - | - | 69.23 |
| CL Cairns | b Vaas | 56 | 78 | 85 | 7 | - | 71.79 |
| CZ Harris | b Muralitharan | 5 | 18 | 20 | - | - | 27.78 |
| +AC Parore | run out (Chandana) | 39 | 43 | 61 | 1 | - | 90.70 |
| GR Larsen | run out (Ranatunga) | 26 | 53 | 66 | 1 | - | 49.06 |
| SB Doull | c Chandana b Vaas | 18 | 21 | 30 | 3 | - | 85.71 |
| AJ Penn | c de Silva b Vaas | 1 | 5 | 7 | - | - | 20.00 |
| HT Davis | not out | 1 | 3 | 4 | - | - | 33.33 |
| Extras | (8 lb, 2 nb, 8 w) | 18 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 49.2 overs) | 201 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-17 (Astle), 2-17 (Young), 3-28 (Fleming), 4-71 (Horne), 5-91 (Harris), 6-125 (Cairns), 7-156 (Parore), 8-199 (Doull), 9-199 (Larsen), 10-201 (Penn) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Vaas | 9.2 | 1 | 26 | 4 | - | - | 14.00 | 2.79 |
| Zoysa | 10 | 1 | 47 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 30.00 | 4.70 |
| Dharmasena | 10 | 0 | 41 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 4.10 |
| Muralitharan | 10 | 1 | 32 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 30.00 | 3.20 |
| Jayasuriya | 5 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 6.00 |
| Ranatunga | 5 | 0 | 17 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.40 |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| ST Jayasuriya | b Davis | 0 | 3 | 7 | - | - | 0.00 |
| +RS Kaluwitharana | b Davis | 23 | 26 | 49 | 2 | - | 88.46 |
| RS Mahanama | c Young b Doull | 10 | 20 | 30 | - | - | 50.00 |
| PA de Silva | c Fleming b Davis | 36 | 74 | 117 | 5 | 1 | 48.65 |
| *A Ranatunga | b Harris | 16 | 39 | 44 | 2 | - | 41.03 |
| HP Tillakaratne | b Astle | 8 | 27 | 29 | 1 | - | 29.63 |
| HDPK Dharmasena | st Parore b Harris | 2 | 4 | 4 | - | - | 50.00 |
| UDU Chandana | b Astle | 3 | 13 | 12 | - | - | 23.08 |
| WPUJC Vaas | c Doull b Astle | 0 | 7 | 8 | - | - | 0.00 |
| DNT Zoysa | not out | 3 | 6 | 12 | - | - | 50.00 |
| M Muralitharan | b Davis | 2 | 5 | 8 | - | - | 40.00 |
| Extras | (13 lb, 16 w) | 29 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 37.2 overs) | 132 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-10 (Jayasuriya), 2-49 (Mahanama), 3-57 (Kaluwitharana), 4-87 (Ranatunga), 5-113 (Tillakaratne), 6-116 (Dharmasena), 7-121 (Chandana), 8-125 (Vaas), 9-126 (de Silva), 10-132 (Muralitharan) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Penn | 2 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 5 | - | - | 7.00 |
| Davis | 8.2 | 0 | 35 | 4 | 5 | - | 12.50 | 4.20 |
| Doull | 4 | 0 | 21 | 1 | 2 | - | 24.00 | 5.25 |
| Larsen | 7 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 1.29 |
| Harris | 10 | 2 | 31 | 2 | 1 | - | 30.00 | 3.10 |
| Astle | 6 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 1 | - | 12.00 | 1.50 |