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| Venue | Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo on 5th July 1998 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | New Zealand won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Sri Lanka won by 87 runs |
| Points | Sri Lanka 2; New Zealand 0 |
| Umpires | PT Manuel, TM Samarasinghe |
| TV umpire | KT Francis |
| Referee | CW Smith |
| Player of the Match | A Ranatunga |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| ST Jayasuriya | c Cairns b Vettori | 24 | 30 | 53 | 3 | - | 80.00 |
| +RS Kaluwitharana | c Astle b Harris | 54 | 64 | 75 | 8 | - | 84.38 |
| PA de Silva | c Fleming b Harris | 62 | 83 | 107 | 2 | 1 | 74.70 |
| *A Ranatunga | c Fleming b McMillan | 102 | 98 | 116 | 6 | 2 | 104.08 |
| UDU Chandana | not out | 27 | 25 | 35 | 2 | - | 108.00 |
| MS Atapattu | not out | 6 | 3 | 4 | 1 | - | 200.00 |
| RS Mahanama | did not bat | ||||||
| HDPK Dharmasena | did not bat | ||||||
| MRCN Bandaratilleke | did not bat | ||||||
| M Muralitharan | did not bat | ||||||
| ASA Perera | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (6 lb, 12 w) | 18 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 293 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-69 (Jayasuriya, 12.2 ov), 2-92 (Kaluwitharana, 17.3 ov), 3-224 (de Silva, 40.4 ov), 4-282 (Ranatunga, 48.5 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Cairns | 7 | 0 | 52 | 0 | 4 | - | - | 7.43 |
| Nash | 5 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | 6.00 |
| Vettori | 10 | 0 | 53 | 1 | 1 | - | 60.00 | 5.30 |
| Harris | 10 | 1 | 44 | 2 | 1 | - | 30.00 | 4.40 |
| Wiseman | 6 | 0 | 32 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.33 |
| McMillan | 7 | 0 | 38 | 1 | - | - | 42.00 | 5.43 |
| Astle | 5 | 0 | 38 | 0 | - | - | - | 7.60 |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| BA Young | c Mahanama b Perera | 3 | 9 | 13 | - | - | 33.33 |
| NJ Astle | c de Silva b Chandana | 74 | 76 | 113 | 7 | 3 | 97.37 |
| *SP Fleming | c Dharmasena b Bandaratilleke | 20 | 25 | 42 | 3 | - | 80.00 |
| CD McMillan | c Muralitharan b Bandaratilleke | 5 | 4 | 6 | 1 | - | 125.00 |
| MJ Horne | c Kaluwitharana b Muralitharan | 4 | 5 | 9 | 1 | - | 80.00 |
| CL Cairns | c Kaluwitharana b Jayasuriya | 28 | 33 | 40 | - | 2 | 84.85 |
| +AC Parore | not out | 28 | 43 | 59 | - | - | 65.12 |
| CZ Harris | b Jayasuriya | 2 | 5 | 4 | - | - | 40.00 |
| DJ Nash | c Chandana b Muralitharan | 3 | 12 | 10 | - | - | 25.00 |
| DL Vettori | b Jayasuriya | 0 | 3 | 4 | - | - | 0.00 |
| PJ Wiseman | c Dharmasena b Chandana | 16 | 22 | 26 | 1 | 1 | 72.73 |
| Extras | (10 lb, 1 nb, 12 w) | 23 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 39.1 overs) | 206 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-11 (Young, 2.5 ov), 2-78 (Fleming, 11.4 ov), 3-86 (McMillan, 13.1 ov), 4-106 (Horne, 16.3 ov), 5-152 (Astle, 24.6 ov), 6-154 (Cairns, 25.4 ov), 7-163 (Harris, 27.4 ov), 8-172 (Nash, 30.4 ov), 9-176 (Vettori, 31.4 ov), 10-206 (Wiseman, 39.1 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Perera | 4 | 0 | 34 | 1 | 2 | - | 24.00 | 8.50 |
| Bandaratilleke | 9 | 0 | 34 | 2 | 3 | - | 27.00 | 3.78 |
| Dharmasena | 2 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 12.00 |
| Muralitharan | 10 | 0 | 50 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 30.00 | 5.00 |
| Jayasuriya | 8 | 0 | 28 | 3 | 3 | - | 16.00 | 3.50 |
| Chandana | 6.1 | 0 | 26 | 2 | - | 1 | 18.50 | 4.22 |