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| Venue | Basin Reserve, Wellington on 10th February 1998 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Australia won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Australia won by 66 runs |
| Umpires | DM Quested, EA Watkin |
| TV umpire | DB Cowie |
| Referee | Hanumant Singh |
| Scorer | C Styles (New Zealand) |
| Player of the Match | ME Waugh |
| Australia innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| ME Waugh | c Howell b Astle | 85 | 112 | 153 | 7 | - | 75.89 |
| +AC Gilchrist | c McMillan b O'Connor | 0 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| RT Ponting | c Fleming b Nash | 26 | 30 | 35 | 2 | - | 86.67 |
| DS Lehmann | c Vettori b O'Connor | 62 | 66 | 94 | 4 | - | 93.94 |
| MG Bevan | run out (Astle) | 39 | 39 | 59 | 3 | - | 100.00 |
| *SR Waugh | c Fleming b O'Connor | 47 | 40 | 50 | 3 | 1 | 117.50 |
| SG Law | not out | 13 | 12 | 18 | - | - | 108.33 |
| TM Moody | not out | 12 | 6 | 7 | 2 | - | 200.00 |
| GR Robertson | did not bat | ||||||
| AC Dale | did not bat | ||||||
| AJ Bichel | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (5 lb, 5 nb, 3 w) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 297 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-1 (Gilchrist, 0.5 ov), 2-46 (Ponting, 9.2 ov), 3-168 (Lehmann, 32.2 ov), 4-191 (ME Waugh, 35.6 ov), 5-265 (Bevan, 45.4 ov), 6-277 (SR Waugh, 47.6 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| O'Connor | 9 | 0 | 55 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 18.00 | 6.11 |
| Cairns | 9 | 0 | 55 | 0 | 1 | 3 | - | 6.11 |
| Nash | 10 | 0 | 52 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 60.00 | 5.20 |
| Doull | 4 | 1 | 16 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.00 |
| Harris | 6 | 0 | 31 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.17 |
| Vettori | 7 | 0 | 49 | 0 | - | - | - | 7.00 |
| Astle | 5 | 0 | 34 | 1 | - | - | 30.00 | 6.80 |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| LG Howell | c Lehmann b Dale | 1 | 6 | 5 | - | - | 16.67 |
| NJ Astle | st Gilchrist b Robertson | 37 | 55 | 65 | 4 | 1 | 67.27 |
| CL Cairns | lbw b SR Waugh | 67 | 76 | 103 | 6 | 1 | 88.16 |
| *SP Fleming | run out (Lehmann) | 3 | 10 | 7 | - | - | 30.00 |
| +AC Parore | run out (Ponting) | 0 | 2 | 3 | - | - | 0.00 |
| CD McMillan | c Robertson b Bevan | 25 | 41 | 42 | 3 | - | 60.98 |
| CZ Harris | b Bevan | 45 | 47 | 68 | 2 | 1 | 95.74 |
| DJ Nash | c Gilchrist b Bevan | 23 | 36 | 37 | 1 | - | 63.89 |
| DL Vettori | c ME Waugh b SR Waugh | 4 | 8 | 13 | - | - | 50.00 |
| SB Doull | not out | 9 | 4 | 9 | - | 1 | 225.00 |
| SB O'Connor | run out (Moody) | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | - | 200.00 |
| Extras | (4 b, 2 lb, 7 w) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 47.3 overs) | 231 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-1 (Howell, 1.2 ov), 2-82 (Astle, 17.1 ov), 3-86 (Fleming, 18.6 ov), 4-89 (Parore, 19.6 ov), 5-132 (Cairns, 29.3 ov), 6-142 (McMillan, 32.1 ov), 7-193 (Nash, 42.3 ov), 8-209 (Vettori, 45.4 ov), 9-219 (Harris, 46.5 ov), 10-231 (O'Connor, 47.3 ov) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Bichel | 6 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 4.67 |
| Dale | 5 | 1 | 23 | 1 | - | 1 | 30.00 | 4.60 |
| Robertson | 9 | 0 | 40 | 1 | 1 | - | 54.00 | 4.44 |
| Moody | 8 | 1 | 34 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 4.25 |
| Bevan | 10 | 1 | 54 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 20.00 | 5.40 |
| SR Waugh | 9.3 | 0 | 46 | 2 | 1 | - | 28.50 | 4.84 |