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| Venue | Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne on 21st January 1998 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Australia won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | New Zealand won by 4 wickets |
| Points | Australia 0; New Zealand 2 |
| Umpires | TA Prue, SG Randell |
| TV umpire | WP Sheahan |
| Referee | RS Madugalle |
| Player of the Match | SP Fleming |
| Australia innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| TM Moody | c O'Connor b Harris | 19 | 55 | 63 | 2 | - | 34.55 |
| ME Waugh | c Nash b Vettori | 31 | 31 | 45 | 4 | - | 100.00 |
| RT Ponting | c O'Connor b Cairns | 100 | 114 | 140 | 6 | - | 87.72 |
| DS Lehmann | run out (Fleming) | 46 | 51 | 63 | - | - | 90.20 |
| *SR Waugh | not out | 45 | 47 | 61 | 2 | - | 95.74 |
| IJ Harvey | not out | 4 | 4 | 2 | - | - | 100.00 |
| MG Bevan | did not bat | ||||||
| +AC Gilchrist | did not bat | ||||||
| PR Reiffel | did not bat | ||||||
| SK Warne | did not bat | ||||||
| P Wilson | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (6 w) | 6 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, innings closed, 189 minutes, 50 overs) | 251 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-51 (ME Waugh, 12.2 ov), 2-65 (Moody, 17.3 ov), 3-153 (Lehmann, 34.1 ov), 4-246 (Ponting, 49.1 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| O'Connor | 4 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 5.75 |
| Cairns | 10 | 2 | 46 | 1 | - | 1 | 60.00 | 4.60 |
| Vettori | 10 | 0 | 41 | 1 | 3 | - | 60.00 | 4.10 |
| Harris | 10 | 0 | 50 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 5.00 |
| Astle | 7 | 0 | 35 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.00 |
| Nash | 3 | 0 | 24 | 0 | - | - | - | 8.00 |
| McMillan | 6 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | 5.33 |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| CM Spearman | c Gilchrist b Wilson | 10 | 27 | 28 | 1 | - | 37.04 |
| NJ Astle | c sub (SG Law) b Wilson | 13 | 21 | 34 | - | - | 61.90 |
| BA Young | c ME Waugh b Moody | 8 | 21 | 28 | 1 | - | 38.10 |
| *SP Fleming | not out | 116 | 122 | 182 | 8 | - | 95.08 |
| +AC Parore | c and b Moody | 46 | 77 | 112 | - | - | 59.74 |
| CD McMillan | lbw b Warne | 26 | 14 | 21 | 2 | 1 | 185.71 |
| CL Cairns | c sub (SG Law) b Wilson | 4 | 5 | 6 | - | - | 80.00 |
| CZ Harris | not out | 13 | 11 | 17 | 2 | - | 118.18 |
| DJ Nash | did not bat | ||||||
| DL Vettori | did not bat | ||||||
| SB O'Connor | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 5 lb, 2 nb, 9 w) | 17 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, 217 minutes, 49.1 overs) | 253 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-25 (Spearman, 6.6 ov), 2-26 (Astle, 8.1 ov), 3-42 (Young, 13.2 ov), 4-178 (Parore, 41.4 ov), 5-219 (McMillan, 45.1 ov), 6-226 (Cairns, 46.2 ov) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Wilson | 10 | 1 | 39 | 3 | - | - | 20.00 | 3.90 |
| Reiffel | 8 | 1 | 31 | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | 3.88 |
| Moody | 10 | 1 | 52 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 5.20 |
| Harvey | 8 | 0 | 42 | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | 5.25 |
| Warne | 8.1 | 0 | 50 | 1 | 2 | - | 49.00 | 6.12 |
| Bevan | 5 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 6.60 |