| a10950 | |
| Venue | Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne on 12th January 1998 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | New Zealanders won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | New Zealanders won by 21 runs |
| Umpires | RA Emerson, DB Hair |
| TV umpire | RW Stratford |
| Scorers | JA Howard (New Zealand), MK Walsh (Australia A) |
| New Zealanders innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| BA Young | c Robertson b Moody | 33 | 38 | 60 | 5 | - | 86.84 |
| CM Spearman | b Kasprowicz | 13 | 23 | 23 | 2 | - | 56.52 |
| MJ Horne | c Young b Robertson | 26 | 46 | 60 | 2 | - | 56.52 |
| *SP Fleming | c Cook b Martyn | 58 | 66 | 104 | 4 | - | 87.88 |
| CD McMillan | c Langer b Martyn | 37 | 49 | 61 | 3 | 1 | 75.51 |
| NJ Astle | run out (Slater->Healy) | 11 | 23 | 25 | - | - | 47.83 |
| CZ Harris | c Young b Kasprowicz | 32 | 31 | 49 | 4 | - | 103.23 |
| +AC Parore | c Young b Kasprowicz | 21 | 18 | 26 | 1 | - | 116.67 |
| DL Vettori | b Kasprowicz | 1 | 3 | 9 | - | - | 33.33 |
| SB O'Connor | run out (Martyn->Kasprowicz) | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 100.00 |
| CJ Drum | not out | 0 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| Extras | (6 lb, 3 w) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 215 minutes, 49.4 overs) | 242 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-25 (Spearman, 5.3 ov), 2-66 (Young, 15.1 ov), 3-83 (Horne, 20.2 ov), 4-158 (McMillan, 34.5 ov), 5-181 (Fleming, 40.3 ov), 6-183 (Astle, 41.4 ov), 7-226 (Parore, 47.2 ov), 8-240 (Vettori, 49.1 ov), 9-242 (O'Connor), 10-242 (Harris, 49.4 ov) | |||||||
| Australia A bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Cook | 6 | 0 | 48 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 8.00 |
| Kasprowicz | 6.4 | 1 | 21 | 4 | 1 | - | 10.00 | 3.15 |
| Blewett | 4 | 1 | 14 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.50 |
| Moody | 8 | 1 | 28 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 3.50 |
| Robertson | 9 | 0 | 46 | 1 | 1 | - | 54.00 | 5.11 |
| Young | 10 | 0 | 46 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.60 |
| Martyn | 6 | 0 | 33 | 2 | - | - | 18.00 | 5.50 |
| Australia A innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| MJ Slater | c Young b O'Connor | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | - | 66.67 |
| GS Blewett | lbw b O'Connor | 1 | 3 | 12 | - | - | 33.33 |
| MJ Di Venuto | lbw b Drum | 8 | 10 | 14 | 2 | - | 80.00 |
| *JL Langer | b Harris | 76 | 124 | 156 | 5 | - | 61.29 |
| DR Martyn | c and b Harris | 49 | 60 | 76 | 2 | - | 81.67 |
| TM Moody | c Fleming b McMillan | 28 | 43 | 53 | 1 | - | 65.12 |
| +IA Healy | not out | 29 | 28 | 52 | - | - | 103.57 |
| BE Young | run out (Fleming) | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| GR Robertson | c Parore b O'Connor | 10 | 14 | 18 | - | - | 71.43 |
| MS Kasprowicz | run out (Horne->Parore) | 4 | 3 | 6 | - | - | 133.33 |
| SH Cook | b O'Connor | 2 | 4 | 4 | - | - | 50.00 |
| Extras | (3 lb, 1 nb, 6 w) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 203 minutes, 49.1 overs) | 221 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-4 (Slater, 0.6 ov), 2-9 (Blewett, 2.2 ov), 3-13 (Di Venuto, 3.5 ov), 4-91 (Martyn, 23.1 ov), 5-156 (Moody, 38.3 ov), 6-184 (Langer), 7-184 (Young), 8-208 (Robertson, 47.3 ov), 9-218 (Kasprowicz, 48.3 ov), 10-221 (Cook, 49.1 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealanders bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| O'Connor | 8.1 | 1 | 39 | 4 | 4 | - | 12.25 | 4.78 |
| Drum | 8 | 0 | 47 | 1 | - | 1 | 48.00 | 5.88 |
| Harris | 10 | 0 | 33 | 2 | 1 | - | 30.00 | 3.30 |
| Vettori | 10 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 4.00 |
| Astle | 8 | 1 | 39 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.88 |
| McMillan | 5 | 0 | 20 | 1 | - | - | 30.00 | 4.00 |