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| Venue | Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah on 17th April 1998 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | India won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | India won by 15 runs |
| Points | India 2; New Zealand 0 |
| Umpires | SA Bucknor, Javed Akhtar |
| TV umpire | ID Robinson |
| Referee | Talat Ali |
| Player of the Match | AB Agarkar |
| India innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| SR Tendulkar | c Doull b Harris | 40 | 41 | 62 | 5 | 1 | 97.56 |
| SC Ganguly | b Nash | 105 | 140 | 200 | 8 | 1 | 75.00 |
| *M Azharuddin | run out (Harris) | 31 | 54 | 69 | 2 | - | 57.41 |
| NS Sidhu | lbw b McMillan | 4 | 12 | 11 | - | - | 33.33 |
| AD Jadeja | c Horne b Nash | 17 | 29 | 31 | - | - | 58.62 |
| HH Kanitkar | c Doull b Nash | 1 | 6 | 7 | - | - | 16.67 |
| AB Agarkar | b Cairns | 9 | 8 | 5 | 1 | - | 112.50 |
| +NR Mongia | c Howell b Nash | 0 | 3 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| A Kumble | not out | 3 | 4 | 8 | - | - | 75.00 |
| BKV Prasad | run out (Parore->Cairns) | 5 | 4 | 10 | - | - | 125.00 |
| Harbhajan Singh | not out | 0 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| Extras | (2 lb, 1 nb, 2 w) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 220 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-76 (Tendulkar, 14.2 ov), 2-148 (Azharuddin, 31.1 ov), 3-157 (Sidhu, 34.3 ov), 4-190 (Jadeja, 42.4 ov), 5-195 (Kanitkar, 44.3 ov), 6-211 (Agarkar, 47.5 ov), 7-212 (Mongia, 48.3 ov), 8-212 (Ganguly, 48.4 ov), 9-219 (Prasad, 49.5 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Doull | 6 | 1 | 25 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.17 |
| Cairns | 10 | 0 | 47 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 4.70 |
| Nash | 10 | 1 | 38 | 4 | - | - | 15.00 | 3.80 |
| Harris | 10 | 0 | 45 | 1 | - | 1 | 60.00 | 4.50 |
| Priest | 5 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 5.80 |
| McMillan | 9 | 0 | 34 | 1 | 1 | - | 54.00 | 3.78 |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| LG Howell | c Mongia b Agarkar | 0 | 5 | 3 | - | - | 0.00 |
| NJ Astle | c Mongia b Prasad | 24 | 26 | 33 | 4 | - | 92.31 |
| CL Cairns | b Prasad | 4 | 12 | 23 | 1 | - | 33.33 |
| *SP Fleming | c Kumble b Agarkar | 75 | 97 | 140 | 7 | - | 77.32 |
| MJ Horne | st Mongia b Harbhajan Singh | 16 | 40 | 59 | 1 | - | 40.00 |
| CD McMillan | lbw b Agarkar | 49 | 66 | 88 | 4 | 1 | 74.24 |
| CZ Harris | c Mongia b Kumble | 4 | 13 | 23 | - | - | 30.77 |
| +AC Parore | not out | 9 | 10 | 30 | - | - | 90.00 |
| DJ Nash | b Agarkar | 2 | 8 | 6 | - | - | 25.00 |
| MW Priest | c Jadeja b Kumble | 0 | 2 | 5 | - | - | 0.00 |
| SB Doull | b Kumble | 10 | 9 | 11 | 1 | - | 111.11 |
| Extras | (5 lb, 1 nb, 6 w) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 47.5 overs) | 205 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Howell, 0.5 ov), 2-24 (Cairns, 5.4 ov), 3-33 (Astle, 7.5 ov), 4-85 (Horne, 21.3 ov), 5-170 (Fleming, 38.6 ov), 6-184 (McMillan, 42.3 ov), 7-186 (Harris, 43.3 ov), 8-189 (Nash, 44.6 ov), 9-190 (Priest, 45.3 ov), 10-205 (Doull, 47.5 ov) | |||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Agarkar | 10 | 2 | 35 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15.00 | 3.50 |
| Prasad | 8 | 0 | 48 | 2 | 2 | - | 24.00 | 6.00 |
| Kumble | 9.5 | 0 | 39 | 3 | 1 | - | 19.67 | 3.97 |
| Harbhajan Singh | 10 | 0 | 32 | 1 | 2 | - | 60.00 | 3.20 |
| Ganguly | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.00 |
| Kanitkar | 7 | 0 | 29 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.14 |
| Tendulkar | 2 | 0 | 13 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.50 |