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| Venue | Eden Park, Auckland on 28th January 1991 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | New Zealand won by 41 runs |
| Umpires | BL Aldridge, RS Dunne |
| Scorers | ADK Boswell, PJ Neazor |
| Player of the Match | C Pringle |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| RB Reid | run out | 44 | 79 | 99 | 4 | - | 55.70 |
| JG Wright | c EAR de Silva b Labrooy | 4 | 8 | 25 | 1 | - | 50.00 |
| *MD Crowe | c Gurusinha b EAR de Silva | 64 | 93 | 100 | 6 | - | 68.82 |
| AH Jones | not out | 64 | 76 | 109 | 4 | - | 84.21 |
| +IDS Smith | c EAR de Silva b Ratnayake | 21 | 14 | 23 | 4 | - | 150.00 |
| MJ Greatbatch | c PA de Silva b Ramanayake | 14 | 18 | 28 | 1 | - | 77.78 |
| CZ Harris | not out | 18 | 21 | 29 | 1 | - | 85.71 |
| GR Larsen | did not bat | ||||||
| RG Petrie | did not bat | ||||||
| C Pringle | did not bat | ||||||
| W Watson | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 4 lb, 3 nb, 4 w) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 242 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-16 (Wright), 2-99 (Reid), 3-134 (Crowe), 4-164 (Smith), 5-200 (Greatbatch) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Labrooy | 10 | 0 | 57 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 5.70 |
| Ramanayake | 10 | 0 | 49 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 4.90 |
| Ratnayake | 10 | 1 | 45 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 4.50 |
| EAR de Silva | 10 | 0 | 41 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 4.10 |
| Ranatunga | 10 | 0 | 44 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.40 |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| CP Senanayake | c Wright b Watson | 12 | 31 | 33 | 1 | - | 38.71 |
| +HP Tillakaratne | run out | 25 | 58 | 82 | 2 | - | 43.10 |
| AP Gurusinha | c Larsen b Harris | 81 | 90 | 146 | 6 | 2 | 90.00 |
| PA de Silva | c Smith b Larsen | 0 | 1 | 3 | - | - | 0.00 |
| *A Ranatunga | b Harris | 24 | 34 | 32 | 2 | - | 70.59 |
| RS Mahanama | c Reid b Jones | 10 | 11 | 11 | - | - | 90.91 |
| RJ Ratnayake | c Petrie b Pringle | 22 | 19 | 26 | 1 | 1 | 115.79 |
| ST Jayasuriya | b Pringle | 4 | 9 | 12 | - | - | 44.44 |
| EAR de Silva | not out | 10 | 15 | 19 | - | - | 66.67 |
| GF Labrooy | b Watson | 3 | 4 | 8 | - | - | 75.00 |
| CPH Ramanayake | run out | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| Extras | (6 lb, 4 w) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 44.4 overs) | 201 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-25 (Senanayake), 2-63 (Tillakaratne), 3-64 (PA de Silva), 4-110 (Ranatunga), 5-123 (Mahanama), 6-169 (Ratnayake), 7-185 (Jayasuriya), 8-191 (Gurusinha), 9-201 (Labrooy), 10-201 (Ramanayake, 44.4 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Watson | 7.4 | 0 | 25 | 2 | - | - | 23.00 | 3.26 |
| Petrie | 8 | 0 | 41 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.12 |
| Pringle | 9 | 1 | 27 | 2 | - | - | 27.00 | 3.00 |
| Larsen | 10 | 1 | 37 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 3.70 |
| Harris | 6 | 0 | 38 | 2 | - | - | 18.00 | 6.33 |
| Jones | 4 | 0 | 27 | 1 | - | - | 24.00 | 6.75 |