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| Venue | Bay Oval, Mount Maunganui on 5th January 2016 (50-over match) | 
| Balls per over | 6 | 
| Toss | Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to field | 
| Result | New Zealand won by 36 runs | 
| Umpires | BF Bowden, MA Gough (England) | 
| TV umpire | RK Illingworth (England) | 
| Referee | AJ Pycroft (Zimbabwe) | 
| Reserve Umpire | PD Jones | 
| Player of the Match | MJ Henry | 
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | Dots | S-Rate | |
| MJ Guptill | c Perera b Kulasekara | 102 | 109 | 157 | 9 | 3 | 52 | 93.58 | 
| TWM Latham | c Chandimal b Fernando | 0 | 3 | 4 | - | - | 3 | 0.00 | 
| *KS Williamson | c Chandimal b Dilshan | 61 | 72 | 91 | 7 | - | 35 | 84.72 | 
| LRPL Taylor | c Siriwardene b Kulasekara | 61 | 67 | 103 | 4 | 1 | 26 | 91.04 | 
| HM Nicholls | c Dilshan b Kulasekara | 2 | 7 | 13 | - | - | 5 | 28.57 | 
| +L Ronchi | not out | 37 | 31 | 44 | 3 | - | 6 | 119.35 | 
| MJ Santner | not out | 21 | 11 | 15 | - | 2 | 2 | 190.91 | 
| IS Sodhi | did not bat | |||||||
| AF Milne | did not bat | |||||||
| MJ Henry | did not bat | |||||||
| TA Boult | did not bat | |||||||
| Extras | (5 lb, 5 w) | 10 | ||||||
| Total | (5 wickets, innings closed, 216 minutes, 50 overs) | 294 | ||||||
| Fall of wickets: | ||||||||
| 1-3 (Latham, 0.6 ov), 2-125 (Williamson, 23.2 ov), 3-206 (Guptill, 38.1 ov), 4-215 (Nicholls, 40.4 ov), 5-262 (Taylor, 46.3 ov) | ||||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | Dots | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | Econ | 
| Fernando | 10 | 1 | 69 | 1 | 2 | - | 32 | 7 | 3 | 60.00 | 6.90 | 
| Chameera | 9 | 0 | 41 | 0 | 1 | - | 23 | 2 | - | - | 4.56 | 
| Perera | 6 | 0 | 45 | 0 | - | - | 16 | 6 | 1 | - | 7.50 | 
| Kulasekara | 10 | 0 | 53 | 3 | 2 | - | 23 | 2 | 1 | 20.00 | 5.30 | 
| Dilshan | 10 | 0 | 49 | 1 | - | - | 22 | 3 | - | 60.00 | 4.90 | 
| Siriwardene | 5 | 0 | 32 | 0 | - | - | 13 | 3 | 1 | - | 6.40 | 
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | Dots | S-Rate | |
| MD Gunathilleke | c Sodhi b Henry | 15 | 36 | 38 | 2 | - | 28 | 41.67 | 
| TM Dilshan | c Ronchi b Boult | 5 | 4 | 9 | 1 | - | 2 | 125.00 | 
| HDRL Thirimanne | b Henry | 2 | 3 | 4 | - | - | 1 | 66.67 | 
| +LD Chandimal | c Williamson b Boult | 50 | 65 | 101 | 4 | 1 | 36 | 76.92 | 
| *AD Mathews | c Nicholls b Henry | 95 | 116 | 156 | 6 | - | 51 | 81.90 | 
| NLTC Perera | c Taylor b Milne | 15 | 13 | 22 | - | 1 | 4 | 115.38 | 
| TAM Siriwardene | c Nicholls b Santner | 39 | 22 | 33 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 177.27 | 
| CK Kapugedera | c Milne b Henry | 10 | 8 | 10 | - | 1 | 3 | 125.00 | 
| KMDN Kulasekara | c Santner b Boult | 15 | 14 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 107.14 | 
| PVD Chameera | b Henry | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 0.00 | 
| ANPR Fernando | not out | 0 | 1 | 6 | - | - | 1 | 0.00 | 
| Extras | (1 lb, 11 w) | 12 | ||||||
| Total | (all out, 205 minutes, 47.1 overs) | 258 | ||||||
| Fall of wickets: | ||||||||
| 1-12 (Dilshan, 2.2 ov), 2-15 (Thirimanne, 3.1 ov), 3-33 (Gunathilleke, 9.1 ov), 4-126 (Chandimal, 29.1 ov), 5-161 (Perera, 34.2 ov), 6-223 (Siriwardene, 40.6 ov), 7-237 (Kapugedera, 43.3 ov), 8-252 (Mathews, 45.3 ov), 9-253 (Chameera, 45.6 ov), 10-258 (Kulasekara, 47.1 ov) | ||||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | Dots | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | Econ | 
| Boult | 8.1 | 0 | 43 | 3 | 2 | - | 24 | 4 | - | 16.33 | 5.27 | 
| Henry | 10 | 1 | 40 | 5 | 4 | - | 38 | 4 | - | 12.00 | 4.00 | 
| Milne | 9 | 0 | 54 | 1 | 5 | - | 29 | 1 | 3 | 54.00 | 6.00 | 
| Santner | 9 | 1 | 54 | 1 | - | - | 24 | 4 | 2 | 54.00 | 6.00 | 
| Sodhi | 9 | 0 | 55 | 0 | - | - | 22 | 4 | 1 | - | 6.11 | 
| Williamson | 2 | 0 | 11 | 0 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 5.50 |