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| Venue | R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo on 20th July 2001 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | New Zealand won by 84 runs |
| Points | India 0; New Zealand 2 |
| Umpires | DN Pathirana, MG Silva |
| TV umpire | EAR de Silva |
| Referee | CW Smith |
| Reserve Umpire | TH Wijewardene |
| Player of the Match | NJ Astle |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| MS Sinclair | lbw b Khan | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| NJ Astle | run out (Harbhajan Singh->Dighe) | 117 | 150 | 205 | 9 | 1 | 78.00 |
| *SP Fleming | c Sehwag b Harbhajan Singh | 25 | 46 | 77 | 4 | - | 54.35 |
| CD McMillan | st Dighe b Yuvraj Singh | 17 | 31 | 29 | 1 | - | 54.84 |
| L Vincent | c Yuvraj Singh b Harbhajan Singh | 16 | 33 | 36 | - | - | 48.48 |
| CZ Harris | run out (Dighe->Harbhajan Singh) | 1 | 4 | 8 | - | - | 25.00 |
| +AC Parore | st Dighe b Badani | 9 | 22 | 29 | - | - | 40.91 |
| DJ Nash | b Khan | 5 | 6 | 7 | - | - | 83.33 |
| DL Vettori | not out | 5 | 8 | 13 | - | - | 62.50 |
| KD Mills | not out | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 100.00 |
| DR Tuffey | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 lb, 2 nb, 9 w) | 15 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, innings closed, 207 minutes, 50 overs) | 211 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Sinclair, 0.1 ov), 2-70 (Fleming, 16.2 ov), 3-106 (McMillan, 25.3 ov), 4-158 (Vincent, 36.3 ov), 5-163 (Harris, 38.3 ov), 6-190 (Parore, 46.2 ov), 7-198 (Nash, 47.4 ov), 8-208 (Astle, 49.4 ov) | |||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Khan | 9 | 1 | 41 | 2 | 4 | - | 27.00 | 4.56 |
| Nehra | 7 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | 5.00 |
| Sodhi | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | - | - | - | 7.00 |
| Harbhajan Singh | 10 | 1 | 25 | 2 | 3 | - | 30.00 | 2.50 |
| Sehwag | 8 | 1 | 31 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.88 |
| Yuvraj Singh | 10 | 0 | 43 | 1 | 1 | - | 60.00 | 4.30 |
| Badani | 5 | 0 | 25 | 1 | - | - | 30.00 | 5.00 |
| India innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| Yuvraj Singh | lbw b Mills | 6 | 15 | 16 | 1 | - | 40.00 |
| *SC Ganguly | c Harris b Tuffey | 5 | 17 | 27 | 1 | - | 29.41 |
| VVS Laxman | c Harris b Vettori | 60 | 103 | 148 | 5 | - | 58.25 |
| RS Dravid | c Sinclair b Nash | 15 | 36 | 48 | 1 | - | 41.67 |
| HK Badani | c Parore b Nash | 2 | 7 | 17 | - | - | 28.57 |
| V Sehwag | c Harris b Nash | 0 | 3 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| RS Sodhi | b Harris | 18 | 25 | 36 | - | 1 | 72.00 |
| +SS Dighe | c Nash b Harris | 9 | 32 | 26 | - | - | 28.12 |
| Harbhajan Singh | c and b Harris | 0 | 2 | 9 | - | - | 0.00 |
| Z Khan | c McMillan b Vettori | 2 | 6 | 8 | - | - | 33.33 |
| A Nehra | not out | 2 | 2 | 3 | - | - | 100.00 |
| Extras | (2 b, 3 lb, 1 nb, 2 w) | 8 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 175 minutes, 41.1 overs) | 127 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-13 (Yuvraj Singh, 3.6 ov), 2-13 (Ganguly, 6.2 ov), 3-41 (Dravid, 16.3 ov), 4-50 (Badani, 20.2 ov), 5-50 (Sehwag, 20.5 ov), 6-88 (Sodhi, 30.3 ov), 7-118 (Dighe, 38.4 ov), 8-123 (Laxman, 39.3 ov), 9-125 (Harbhajan Singh, 40.4 ov), 10-127 (Khan, 41.1 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Tuffey | 7 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 2 | - | 42.00 | 1.00 |
| Mills | 7 | 1 | 24 | 1 | - | - | 42.00 | 3.43 |
| Nash | 6 | 0 | 13 | 3 | - | - | 12.00 | 2.17 |
| Vettori | 8.1 | 0 | 39 | 2 | - | 1 | 24.50 | 4.78 |
| Harris | 8 | 1 | 23 | 3 | - | - | 16.00 | 2.88 |
| Astle | 5 | 0 | 16 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.20 |