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| Venue | Brisbane Cricket Ground, Woolloongabba, Brisbane on 18th January 1981 (50-over match) | 
| Balls per over | 6 | 
| Toss | India won the toss and decided to field | 
| Result | New Zealand won by 22 runs | 
| Points | India 0; New Zealand 2 | 
| Umpires | PM Cronin, MW Johnson | 
| Player of the Match | JV Coney | 
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| JG Wright | b Ghavri | 14 | 29 | 35 | 1 | - | 48.28 | 
| BA Edgar | b Doshi | 34 | 52 | 88 | 1 | - | 65.38 | 
| *GP Howarth | c Patil b Doshi | 45 | 55 | 63 | 5 | - | 81.82 | 
| JM Parker | c Reddy b Kapil Dev | 6 | 12 | 15 | 1 | - | 50.00 | 
| MG Burgess | c Viswanath b Azad | 26 | 49 | 55 | 1 | - | 53.06 | 
| JV Coney | run out | 49 | 58 | 80 | 1 | 3 | 84.48 | 
| +IDS Smith | c sub (NS Yadav) b Kapil Dev | 12 | 10 | 18 | 2 | - | 120.00 | 
| RJ Hadlee | b Ghavri | 32 | 24 | 29 | 2 | 2 | 133.33 | 
| BL Cairns | b Kapil Dev | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 | 
| MC Snedden | not out | 6 | 15 | 21 | - | - | 40.00 | 
| EJ Chatfield | not out | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 | 
| Extras | (1 b, 13 lb, 3 nb, 1 w) | 18 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 242 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-28 (Wright), 2-95 (Edgar), 3-108 (Howarth), 4-108 (Parker), 5-166 (Burgess), 6-199 (Smith), 7-207 (Coney), 8-207 (Cairns), 9-241 (Hadlee) | |||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ | 
| Kapil Dev | 10 | 3 | 37 | 3 | - | - | 20.00 | 3.70 | 
| Ghavri | 10 | 0 | 61 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 6.10 | 
| Binny | 4 | 0 | 25 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.25 | 
| Patil | 10 | 0 | 38 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.80 | 
| Doshi | 10 | 0 | 25 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 2.50 | 
| Azad | 3 | 1 | 26 | 1 | - | - | 18.00 | 8.67 | 
| Yashpal Sharma | 3 | 0 | 12 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.00 | 
| India innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| RMH Binny | c Cairns b Coney | 35 | 52 | 62 | 5 | - | 67.31 | 
| *SM Gavaskar | run out | 9 | 26 | 33 | - | - | 34.62 | 
| DB Vengsarkar | run out | 66 | 77 | 114 | 6 | - | 85.71 | 
| GR Viswanath | b Coney | 9 | 22 | 20 | - | - | 40.91 | 
| Kapil Dev | b Coney | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 | 
| SM Patil | run out | 48 | 53 | 57 | 3 | 2 | 90.57 | 
| Yashpal Sharma | c Smith b Snedden | 13 | 20 | 21 | 1 | - | 65.00 | 
| KBJ Azad | c Parker b Snedden | 19 | 21 | 40 | 3 | - | 90.48 | 
| KD Ghavri | b Snedden | 2 | 7 | 8 | - | - | 28.57 | 
| +B Reddy | not out | 3 | 9 | 12 | - | - | 33.33 | 
| DR Doshi | lbw b Hadlee | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 | 
| Extras | (4 b, 11 lb, 1 nb) | 16 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 48.1 overs) | 220 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-32 (Gavaskar), 2-73 (Binny), 3-86 (Viswanath), 4-86 (Kapil Dev), 5-178 (Patil), 6-179 (Vengsarkar), 7-197 (Yashpal Sharma), 8-213 (Ghavri), 9-220 (Azad), 10-220 (Doshi) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ | 
| Hadlee | 9.1 | 2 | 15 | 1 | - | - | 55.00 | 1.64 | 
| Chatfield | 10 | 1 | 42 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.20 | 
| Coney | 10 | 1 | 28 | 3 | - | - | 20.00 | 2.80 | 
| Cairns | 10 | 0 | 54 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.40 | 
| Snedden | 8 | 0 | 57 | 3 | - | - | 16.00 | 7.12 | 
| Burgess | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | - | - | - | 8.00 |