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| Venue | Eden Park, Auckland on 26th December 2004 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | New Zealand won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | New Zealand won by 7 wickets |
| Umpires | BF Bowden, PD Parker |
| TV umpire | DB Cowie |
| Referee | MJ Procter |
| Player of the Match | SP Fleming |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| WS Jayantha | lbw b Tuffey | 0 | 3 | 3 | - | - | 0.00 |
| ST Jayasuriya | c Marshall b Cairns | 43 | 60 | 99 | 5 | 1 | 71.67 |
| *MS Atapattu | c McCullum b Tuffey | 4 | 11 | 19 | 1 | - | 36.36 |
| +KC Sangakkara | c McCullum b Mills | 1 | 5 | 5 | - | - | 20.00 |
| DPMD Jayawardene | c Sinclair b Oram | 2 | 25 | 25 | - | - | 8.00 |
| TM Dilshan | c Fleming b Cairns | 48 | 79 | 112 | 3 | 1 | 60.76 |
| UDU Chandana | run out (Tuffey) | 20 | 36 | 48 | 1 | - | 55.56 |
| WPUJC Vaas | b Cairns | 0 | 6 | 5 | - | - | 0.00 |
| MF Maharoof | c Fleming b Cairns | 2 | 8 | 6 | - | - | 25.00 |
| KMDN Kulasekara | not out | 4 | 16 | 18 | - | - | 25.00 |
| CRD Fernando | run out | 3 | 4 | 9 | - | - | 75.00 |
| Extras | (4 lb, 1 nb, 9 w) | 14 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 42 overs) | 141 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-1 (Jayantha, 0.3 ov), 2-17 (Atapattu, 4.4 ov), 3-18 (Sangakkara, 5.3 ov), 4-35 (Jayawardene, 12.3 ov), 5-70 (Jayasuriya, 21.5 ov), 6-114 (Chandana, 34.2 ov), 7-116 (Vaas, 35.5 ov), 8-120 (Maharoof, 37.2 ov), 9-134 (Dilshan, 39.5 ov), 10-141 (Fernando, 42 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Tuffey | 8 | 1 | 17 | 2 | 3 | - | 24.00 | 2.12 |
| Mills | 8 | 3 | 24 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 3.00 |
| Oram | 7 | 0 | 23 | 1 | 1 | - | 42.00 | 3.29 |
| Cairns | 8 | 1 | 33 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12.00 | 4.12 |
| Vettori | 6 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 3.67 |
| Styris | 5 | 0 | 18 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.60 |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| *SP Fleming | not out | 77 | 92 | 136 | 8 | 2 | 83.70 |
| NJ Astle | lbw b Vaas | 6 | 5 | 5 | 1 | - | 120.00 |
| MS Sinclair | c and b Chandana | 31 | 53 | 65 | 4 | - | 58.49 |
| SB Styris | run out (Jayantha->Sangakkara) | 12 | 21 | 30 | - | 1 | 57.14 |
| HJH Marshall | not out | 14 | 28 | 33 | 1 | - | 50.00 |
| JDP Oram | did not bat | ||||||
| CL Cairns | did not bat | ||||||
| +BB McCullum | did not bat | ||||||
| DL Vettori | did not bat | ||||||
| KD Mills | did not bat | ||||||
| DR Tuffey | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 1 lb, 1 nb) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (3 wickets, 136 minutes, 33 overs) | 144 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-7 (Astle, 0.6 ov), 2-64 (Sinclair, 16.4 ov), 3-101 (Styris, 23.3 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Vaas | 8 | 1 | 31 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 3.88 |
| Kulasekara | 8 | 3 | 13 | 0 | - | - | - | 1.62 |
| Maharoof | 3 | 0 | 31 | 0 | - | - | - | 10.33 |
| Fernando | 5 | 0 | 22 | 0 | - | 1 | - | 4.40 |
| Chandana | 7 | 1 | 29 | 1 | - | - | 42.00 | 4.14 |
| Jayasuriya | 2 | 0 | 15 | 0 | - | - | - | 7.50 |