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| Venue | Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah on 27th March 1988 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | New Zealand won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | India won by 73 runs |
| Points | India 2; New Zealand 0 |
| Umpires | Khizer Hayat, Mahboob Shah |
| Player of the Match | M Amarnath |
| India innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| K Srikkanth | b Watson | 1 | 7 | - | - | 14.29 | |
| NS Sidhu | c Rutherford b Watson | 88 | 98 | 6 | 3 | 89.80 | |
| WV Raman | c Greatbatch b Hadlee | 1 | 10 | - | - | 10.00 | |
| M Amarnath | not out | 102 | 139 | 6 | - | 73.38 | |
| Kapil Dev | c Kuggeleijn b Hadlee | 5 | 8 | - | - | 62.50 | |
| M Azharuddin | run out | 29 | 22 | 2 | - | 131.82 | |
| *RJ Shastri | c Smith b Hadlee | 29 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 161.11 | |
| +KS More | not out | 3 | 3 | - | - | 100.00 | |
| C Sharma | did not bat | ||||||
| Arshad Ayub | did not bat | ||||||
| ND Hirwani | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 lb, 1 nb, 4 w) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 267 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-1 (Srikkanth), 2-4 (Raman), 3-162 (Sidhu), 4-167 (Kapil Dev), 5-212 (Azharuddin), 6-260 (Shastri) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Hadlee | 10 | 0 | 54 | 3 | - | - | 20.00 | 5.40 |
| Watson | 10 | 2 | 36 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 3.60 |
| Morrison | 10 | 0 | 45 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.50 |
| Chatfield | 10 | 0 | 57 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.70 |
| Rutherford | 5 | 0 | 38 | 0 | - | - | - | 7.60 |
| Kuggeleijn | 5 | 0 | 33 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.60 |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| *JG Wright | c More b Kapil Dev | 19 | 31 | 2 | - | 61.29 | |
| RH Vance | c More b Arshad Ayub | 42 | 95 | 1 | - | 44.21 | |
| AH Jones | c and b Azharuddin | 6 | 20 | - | - | 30.00 | |
| MJ Greatbatch | c More b Hirwani | 45 | 67 | 3 | - | 67.16 | |
| KR Rutherford | c sub (AK Sharma) b Hirwani | 3 | 3 | - | - | 100.00 | |
| +IDS Smith | b Hirwani | 17 | 14 | - | 1 | 121.43 | |
| CM Kuggeleijn | st More b Hirwani | 3 | 7 | - | - | 42.86 | |
| RJ Hadlee | not out | 35 | 45 | 1 | 2 | 77.78 | |
| DK Morrison | st More b Arshad Ayub | 6 | 17 | - | - | 35.29 | |
| W Watson | not out | 4 | 14 | - | - | 28.57 | |
| EJ Chatfield | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 6 lb, 1 nb, 6 w) | 14 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 194 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-32 (Wright), 2-46 (Jones), 3-118 (Vance), 4-120 (Greatbatch), 5-124 (Rutherford), 6-139 (Kuggeleijn), 7-144 (Smith), 8-175 (Morrison) | |||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Kapil Dev | 10 | 2 | 30 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 3.00 |
| Sharma | 7 | 0 | 28 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.00 |
| Azharuddin | 4 | 0 | 15 | 1 | - | - | 24.00 | 3.75 |
| Shastri | 8 | 1 | 29 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.62 |
| Hirwani | 10 | 0 | 43 | 4 | - | - | 15.00 | 4.30 |
| Arshad Ayub | 10 | 1 | 41 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 4.10 |
| Raman | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | - | 1.00 |