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| Venue | R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo on 25th July 2001 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Sri Lanka won by 5 wickets |
| Points | Sri Lanka 2; New Zealand 0 |
| Umpires | EAR de Silva, LV Jayasundara |
| TV umpire | PT Manuel |
| Referee | CW Smith |
| Reserve Umpire | MG Silva |
| Player of the Match | RP Arnold |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| MS Sinclair | c Jayasuriya b Fernando | 21 | 50 | 61 | 3 | - | 42.00 |
| NJ Astle | b Arnold | 54 | 67 | 105 | 6 | 1 | 80.60 |
| JDP Oram | c Jayawardene b Dharmasena | 11 | 19 | 25 | 1 | - | 57.89 |
| *CD McMillan | b Muralitharan | 38 | 53 | 56 | 3 | - | 71.70 |
| L Vincent | c Gunawardene b Arnold | 30 | 57 | 60 | 1 | - | 52.63 |
| CZ Harris | c Gunawardene b Dharmasena | 13 | 25 | 35 | 1 | - | 52.00 |
| +AC Parore | not out | 37 | 25 | 29 | 2 | 2 | 148.00 |
| DL Vettori | c Atapattu b Jayasuriya | 3 | 4 | 5 | - | - | 75.00 |
| KD Mills | c and b Dharmasena | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| GE Bradburn | not out | 2 | 2 | 7 | - | - | 100.00 |
| DR Tuffey | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (15 lb, 4 nb, 8 w) | 27 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, innings closed, 196 minutes, 50 overs) | 236 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-70 (Sinclair, 13.1 ov), 2-98 (Oram, 19.1 ov), 3-120 (Astle, 24.1 ov), 4-164 (McMillan, 36.6 ov), 5-184 (Vincent, 43.1 ov), 6-210 (Harris, 46.4 ov), 7-217 (Vettori, 47.6 ov), 8-217 (Mills, 48.2 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Vaas | 6 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | 4.00 |
| Perera | 5 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 3 | 2 | - | 4.60 |
| Fernando | 3 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 2 | - | 18.00 | 6.00 |
| Dharmasena | 10 | 0 | 52 | 3 | 1 | - | 20.00 | 5.20 |
| Muralitharan | 10 | 0 | 31 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 3.10 |
| Jayasuriya | 10 | 0 | 51 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 5.10 |
| Arnold | 6 | 1 | 22 | 2 | 1 | - | 18.00 | 3.67 |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| *ST Jayasuriya | lbw b Mills | 5 | 5 | 7 | 1 | - | 100.00 |
| DA Gunawardene | c Harris b Tuffey | 5 | 26 | 42 | 1 | - | 19.23 |
| +RS Kaluwitharana | c Parore b Mills | 0 | 3 | 4 | - | - | 0.00 |
| MS Atapattu | run out (Sinclair->Parore) | 66 | 91 | 129 | 7 | - | 72.53 |
| DPMD Jayawardene | run out (Sinclair) | 0 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| RP Arnold | not out | 91 | 116 | 157 | 7 | - | 78.45 |
| ASA Perera | not out | 56 | 51 | 60 | 6 | - | 109.80 |
| WPUJC Vaas | did not bat | ||||||
| HDPK Dharmasena | did not bat | ||||||
| M Muralitharan | did not bat | ||||||
| CRD Fernando | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 4 lb, 2 nb, 10 w) | 17 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, 203 minutes, 48.3 overs) | 240 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-5 (Jayasuriya, 1.3 ov), 2-5 (Kaluwitharana, 1.6 ov), 3-27 (Gunawardene, 8.4 ov), 4-27 (Jayawardene, 8.6 ov), 5-137 (Atapattu, 33.5 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Tuffey | 6 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 1 | - | 36.00 | 3.17 |
| Mills | 8 | 0 | 32 | 2 | 2 | - | 24.00 | 4.00 |
| Oram | 7 | 0 | 38 | 0 | - | 1 | - | 5.43 |
| Vettori | 10 | 1 | 38 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 3.80 |
| Harris | 10 | 0 | 49 | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | 4.90 |
| Bradburn | 2 | 0 | 12 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.00 |
| McMillan | 3.3 | 0 | 35 | 0 | - | - | - | 10.00 |
| Astle | 2 | 0 | 12 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.00 |