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| Venue | Barabati Stadium, Cuttack on 12th December 1988 (45-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | India won by 5 wickets |
| Umpires | DN Dotiwalla, SB Kulkarni |
| Scorer | GGA Saulez (New Zealand) |
| Player of the Match | NS Sidhu |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| *JG Wright | b Maninder Singh | 39 | 59 | 77 | 4 | - | 66.10 |
| AH Jones | c Srikkanth b Maninder Singh | 16 | 45 | 58 | 1 | - | 35.56 |
| KR Rutherford | lbw b Arshad Ayub | 4 | 15 | 24 | - | - | 26.67 |
| MJ Greatbatch | run out | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 50.00 |
| EJ Gray | b Kapil Dev | 38 | 80 | 90 | 3 | - | 47.50 |
| +IDS Smith | lbw b AK Sharma | 9 | 28 | 31 | - | - | 32.14 |
| CM Kuggeleijn | c SK Sharma b Srikkanth | 9 | 17 | 22 | - | - | 52.94 |
| JG Bracewell | not out | 24 | 28 | 37 | 2 | - | 85.71 |
| MC Snedden | not out | 2 | 3 | 8 | - | - | 66.67 |
| W Watson | did not bat | ||||||
| EJ Chatfield | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 b, 9 lb, 1 nb, 4 w) | 18 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, innings closed, 45 overs) | 160 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-52 (Jones), 2-64 (Wright), 3-65 (Greatbatch), 4-67 (Rutherford), 5-90 (Smith), 6-109 (Kuggeleijn), 7-156 (Gray) | |||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Kapil Dev | 7 | 0 | 29 | 1 | - | - | 42.00 | 4.14 |
| SK Sharma | 5 | 0 | 19 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.80 |
| Maninder Singh | 9 | 2 | 23 | 2 | - | - | 27.00 | 2.56 |
| Arshad Ayub | 9 | 0 | 23 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 2.56 |
| AK Sharma | 7 | 0 | 25 | 1 | - | - | 42.00 | 3.57 |
| Srikkanth | 8 | 0 | 28 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 3.50 |
| India innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| K Srikkanth | lbw b Watson | 5 | 9 | 6 | 1 | - | 55.56 |
| VB Chandrasekhar | b Kuggeleijn | 9 | 29 | 43 | 1 | - | 31.03 |
| NS Sidhu | c Smith b Watson | 67 | 108 | 160 | 2 | 1 | 62.04 |
| *DB Vengsarkar | c Smith b Bracewell | 15 | 36 | 47 | - | - | 41.67 |
| M Azharuddin | c Bracewell b Gray | 32 | 28 | 30 | 1 | 2 | 114.29 |
| Kapil Dev | not out | 27 | 41 | 47 | 1 | 1 | 65.85 |
| AK Sharma | not out | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 200.00 |
| +CS Pandit | did not bat | ||||||
| SK Sharma | did not bat | ||||||
| Arshad Ayub | did not bat | ||||||
| Maninder Singh | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 lb) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, 41.3 overs) | 161 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-5 (Srikkanth), 2-30 (Chandrasekhar), 3-69 (Vengsarkar), 4-117 (Azharuddin), 5-159 (Sidhu) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Chatfield | 9 | 2 | 23 | 0 | - | - | - | 2.56 |
| Watson | 7.3 | 0 | 33 | 2 | - | - | 22.50 | 4.40 |
| Kuggeleijn | 9 | 0 | 29 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 3.22 |
| Snedden | 5 | 0 | 11 | 0 | - | - | - | 2.20 |
| Bracewell | 5 | 0 | 37 | 1 | - | - | 30.00 | 7.40 |
| Gray | 6 | 0 | 24 | 1 | - | - | 36.00 | 4.00 |