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| Venue | Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah on 17th April 2001 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | New Zealand won by 79 runs |
| Points | New Zealand 2; Sri Lanka 0 |
| Umpires | DB Cowie, JH Hampshire |
| TV umpire | DL Orchard |
| Referee | AM Ebrahim |
| Player of the Match | MS Sinclair, KD Mills |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| +CJ Nevin | c Kaluwitharana b Vaas | 0 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 | |
| MS Sinclair | not out | 118 | 137 | 5 | 2 | 86.13 | |
| MD Bell | st Kaluwitharana b Arnold | 66 | 97 | 6 | - | 68.04 | |
| *CD McMillan | c Samaraweera b Jayasuriya | 17 | 18 | - | 1 | 94.44 | |
| JDP Oram | c Samaraweera b Muralitharan | 2 | 12 | - | - | 16.67 | |
| CZ Harris | c and b Jayasuriya | 16 | 20 | 1 | - | 80.00 | |
| L Vincent | c Jayawardene b Zoysa | 8 | 12 | - | - | 66.67 | |
| AR Adams | not out | 13 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 216.67 | |
| GE Bradburn | did not bat | ||||||
| KD Mills | did not bat | ||||||
| DR Tuffey | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 lb, 3 nb, 3 w) | 8 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 248 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Nevin, 0.1 ov), 2-141 (Bell, 29.5 ov), 3-167 (McMillan, 35.1 ov), 4-176 (Oram, 38.2 ov), 5-200 (Harris, 43.6 ov), 6-227 (Vincent, 48.1 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Vaas | 9 | 1 | 57 | 1 | - | 1 | 54.00 | 6.33 |
| Zoysa | 8 | 0 | 42 | 1 | - | 2 | 48.00 | 5.25 |
| Muralitharan | 10 | 0 | 38 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 3.80 |
| Samaraweera | 8 | 0 | 37 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 4.62 |
| Jayasuriya | 10 | 0 | 47 | 2 | 1 | - | 30.00 | 4.70 |
| Arnold | 5 | 0 | 25 | 1 | - | - | 30.00 | 5.00 |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| *ST Jayasuriya | c sub (BGK Walker) b Mills | 25 | 44 | 4 | - | 56.82 | |
| +RS Kaluwitharana | b Mills | 0 | 10 | - | - | 0.00 | |
| MS Atapattu | c Nevin b Mills | 5 | 16 | 1 | - | 31.25 | |
| DPMD Jayawardene | c and b Bradburn | 41 | 55 | 4 | - | 74.55 | |
| SI de Saram | c Mills b Bradburn | 11 | 20 | 1 | - | 55.00 | |
| KC Sangakkara | lbw b Harris | 6 | 12 | 1 | - | 50.00 | |
| RP Arnold | run out (Bell) | 1 | 9 | - | - | 11.11 | |
| WPUJC Vaas | not out | 24 | 53 | 1 | - | 45.28 | |
| TT Samaraweera | run out (Nevin->McMillan) | 27 | 70 | 3 | - | 38.57 | |
| DNT Zoysa | not out | 19 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 135.71 | |
| M Muralitharan | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (3 lb, 3 nb, 4 w) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 169 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-14 (Kaluwitharana, 5.3 ov), 2-23 (Atapattu, 9.1 ov), 3-37 (Jayasuriya, 13.5 ov), 4-78 (de Saram, 21.5 ov), 5-87 (Sangakkara, 24.3 ov), 6-91 (Arnold, 26.4 ov), 7-97 (Jayawardene, 29.3 ov), 8-138 (Samaraweera, 46.3 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Tuffey | 8 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 3.12 |
| Mills | 10 | 2 | 30 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 20.00 | 3.00 |
| Oram | 5 | 0 | 20 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.00 |
| Bradburn | 10 | 1 | 22 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 2.20 |
| Harris | 10 | 0 | 27 | 1 | 1 | - | 60.00 | 2.70 |
| Adams | 3 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | 4.00 |
| McMillan | 4 | 0 | 30 | 0 | - | 1 | - | 7.50 |