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| Venue | Tyronne Fernando Stadium, Moratuwa on 31st March 1984 (45-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | New Zealand won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Sri Lanka won by 41 runs |
| Umpires | KT Francis, PW Vidanagamage |
| Player of the Match | SHU Karnain |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| S Wettimuny | b Chatfield | 6 | 33 | 45 | - | - | 18.18 |
| DSBP Kuruppu | c Wright b Stirling | 4 | 19 | 25 | 1 | - | 21.05 |
| RS Madugalle | c Coney b Chatfield | 10 | 27 | 39 | - | 1 | 37.04 |
| A Ranatunga | not out | 50 | 60 | 144 | 4 | - | 83.33 |
| *LRD Mendis | c Smith b Cairns | 4 | 13 | 15 | - | - | 30.77 |
| PA de Silva | b Hadlee | 8 | 23 | 29 | - | - | 34.78 |
| JR Ratnayeke | run out | 12 | 27 | 48 | - | - | 44.44 |
| SHU Karnain | c Cairns b MD Crowe | 28 | 24 | 39 | 3 | 1 | 116.67 |
| +RG de Alwis | run out | 1 | 3 | 4 | - | - | 33.33 |
| DS de Silva | not out | 18 | 16 | 33 | 2 | - | 112.50 |
| VB John | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 10 lb, 4 nb, 1 w) | 16 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, innings closed, 40 overs) | 157 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-11 (Kuruppu), 2-22 (Wettimuny), 3-37 (Madugalle), 4-48 (Mendis), 5-69 (PA de Silva), 6-110 (Ratnayeke), 7-110 (Karnain), 8-112 (de Alwis) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Cairns | 8 | 1 | 11 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 1.38 |
| Hadlee | 8 | 2 | 27 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 3.38 |
| Stirling | 5 | 1 | 34 | 1 | - | - | 30.00 | 6.80 |
| Chatfield | 8 | 0 | 29 | 2 | - | - | 24.00 | 3.62 |
| Coney | 6 | 0 | 21 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.50 |
| MD Crowe | 5 | 0 | 19 | 1 | - | - | 30.00 | 3.80 |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| JG Wright | c Wettimuny b John | 3 | 16 | 13 | - | - | 18.75 |
| BA Edgar | c de Alwis b Karnain | 12 | 37 | 56 | 1 | - | 32.43 |
| *GP Howarth | b Karnain | 12 | 20 | 35 | 1 | - | 60.00 |
| BL Cairns | b Karnain | 5 | 12 | 16 | - | - | 41.67 |
| MD Crowe | c de Alwis b Karnain | 9 | 13 | 48 | 1 | - | 69.23 |
| JJ Crowe | lbw b Karnain | 9 | 8 | 12 | - | 1 | 112.50 |
| JV Coney | b Ranatunga | 11 | 15 | 24 | 1 | - | 73.33 |
| RJ Hadlee | c PA de Silva b Ranatunga | 13 | 20 | 26 | 1 | - | 65.00 |
| +IDS Smith | c PA de Silva b DS de Silva | 11 | 18 | 26 | - | - | 61.11 |
| DA Stirling | not out | 13 | 21 | 22 | 1 | - | 61.90 |
| EJ Chatfield | lbw b Ranatunga | 5 | 18 | 19 | - | - | 27.78 |
| Extras | (1 b, 11 lb, 1 nb) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 34 overs) | 116 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-4 (Wright), 2-31 (Howarth), 3-34 (Edgar), 4-39 (Cairns), 5-49 (JJ Crowe), 6-66 (Coney), 7-76 (MD Crowe), 8-88 (Hadlee), 9-96 (Smith), 10-116 (Chatfield) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| John | 7 | 0 | 12 | 1 | - | - | 42.00 | 1.71 |
| Ratnayeke | 6 | 0 | 14 | 0 | - | - | - | 2.33 |
| Karnain | 8 | 1 | 26 | 5 | - | - | 9.60 | 3.25 |
| DS de Silva | 5 | 0 | 28 | 1 | - | - | 30.00 | 5.60 |
| Ranatunga | 8 | 1 | 23 | 3 | - | - | 16.00 | 2.88 |