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| Venue | Queenstown Events Centre, Queenstown on 31st December 2005 (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 | DB Hair, AL Hill |
| TV umpire | EA Watkin |
| Referee | AG Hurst |
| Reserve Umpire | GAV Baxter |
| Player of the Match | PG Fulton |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| WU Tharanga | c McCullum b Oram | 17 | 42 | 62 | 1 | - | 40.48 |
| ST Jayasuriya | c Vincent b Mills | 12 | 21 | 31 | 1 | - | 57.14 |
| +KC Sangakkara | c Fulton b Bond | 0 | 6 | 6 | - | - | 0.00 |
| DPMD Jayawardene | c McCullum b Oram | 1 | 10 | 13 | - | - | 10.00 |
| *MS Atapattu | c How b Mills | 35 | 56 | 62 | 4 | - | 62.50 |
| TM Dilshan | c Vincent b Bond | 42 | 54 | 84 | 4 | 1 | 77.78 |
| RP Arnold | b Mills | 26 | 41 | 64 | 2 | - | 63.41 |
| WPUJC Vaas | c Vettori b Oram | 1 | 22 | 17 | - | - | 4.55 |
| MF Maharoof | b Cairns | 18 | 24 | 25 | 2 | - | 75.00 |
| SL Malinga | not out | 1 | 6 | 14 | - | - | 16.67 |
| M Muralitharan | c Vettori b Bond | 0 | 3 | 4 | - | - | 0.00 |
| Extras | (6 lb, 1 nb, 4 w) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 198 minutes, 47.2 overs) | 164 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-23 (Jayasuriya, 8.2 ov), 2-25 (Sangakkara, 9.3 ov), 3-34 (Jayawardene, 12.3 ov), 4-41 (Tharanga, 14.5 ov), 5-105 (Atapattu, 28.4 ov), 6-133 (Dilshan, 35.4 ov), 7-140 (Vaas, 40.4 ov), 8-151 (Arnold, 44.3 ov), 9-163 (Maharoof, 46.4 ov), 10-164 (Muralitharan, 47.2 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Mills | 10 | 2 | 31 | 3 | 2 | - | 20.00 | 3.10 |
| Bond | 8.2 | 1 | 29 | 3 | 1 | - | 16.67 | 3.48 |
| Oram | 10 | 0 | 31 | 3 | - | - | 20.00 | 3.10 |
| Cairns | 8 | 0 | 42 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 48.00 | 5.25 |
| Vettori | 10 | 1 | 22 | 0 | - | - | - | 2.20 |
| Styris | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.00 |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| L Vincent | c Sangakkara b Vaas | 15 | 19 | 24 | 3 | - | 78.95 |
| JM How | b Jayasuriya | 58 | 95 | 126 | 8 | 1 | 61.05 |
| NJ Astle | lbw b Muralitharan | 2 | 15 | 19 | - | - | 13.33 |
| PG Fulton | not out | 70 | 79 | 103 | 7 | 1 | 88.61 |
| HJH Marshall | not out | 16 | 16 | 21 | 2 | - | 100.00 |
| SB Styris | did not bat | ||||||
| JDP Oram | did not bat | ||||||
| CL Cairns | did not bat | ||||||
| +BB McCullum | did not bat | ||||||
| KD Mills | did not bat | ||||||
| *DL Vettori | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 lb, 4 w) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (3 wickets, 148 minutes, 37.2 overs) | 166 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-32 (Vincent, 6.3 ov), 2-41 (Astle, 11.2 ov), 3-136 (How, 31.4 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Vaas | 9 | 2 | 38 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 4.22 |
| Malinga | 6 | 0 | 44 | 0 | 3 | - | - | 7.33 |
| Muralitharan | 10 | 1 | 29 | 1 | 1 | - | 60.00 | 2.90 |
| Jayasuriya | 8.2 | 2 | 36 | 1 | - | - | 50.00 | 4.32 |
| Maharoof | 4 | 0 | 18 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.50 |