| a10232 | |
| Venue | Eden Park Outer Oval, Auckland on 15th December 1996 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Otago won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Auckland won by 109 runs |
| Points | Auckland 2; Otago 0 |
| Umpires | DB Cowie, MB Glenny |
| Scorer | PJ Neazor |
| Player of the Match | CM Brown |
| Auckland innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| RA Jones | c Kennedy b Horne | 26 | 53 | 59 | 4 | - | 49.06 |
| DN Patel | lbw b Kennedy | 6 | 12 | 21 | - | - | 50.00 |
| AC Parore | lbw b O'Connor | 3 | 15 | 23 | - | - | 20.00 |
| PA de Silva | c Maynard b Morland | 15 | 24 | 31 | 1 | 1 | 62.50 |
| AC Barnes | b Horne | 2 | 20 | 27 | - | - | 10.00 |
| SM Lynch | lbw b O'Connor | 50 | 75 | 103 | 4 | - | 66.67 |
| *JTC Vaughan | not out | 67 | 90 | 111 | 6 | - | 74.44 |
| SJ Peterson | not out | 15 | 13 | 17 | - | - | 115.38 |
| +JM Mills | did not bat | ||||||
| KP Walmsley | did not bat | ||||||
| CM Brown | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (5 lb, 4 nb, 7 w) | 16 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 200 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-17, 2-31, 3-43, 4-58, 5-60, 6-169 | |||||||
| Otago bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Kennedy | 10 | 1 | 50 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 5.00 |
| Sewell | 10 | 1 | 53 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.30 |
| O'Connor | 10 | 1 | 26 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 2.60 |
| Horne | 10 | 1 | 33 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 3.30 |
| Morland | 10 | 1 | 33 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 3.30 |
| Otago innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| *RA Lawson | c Peterson b Brown | 3 | 6 | 5 | - | - | 50.00 |
| CB Gaffaney | c Mills b Walmsley | 16 | 17 | 24 | 4 | - | 94.12 |
| MJ Horne | c Mills b Brown | 1 | 12 | 14 | - | - | 8.33 |
| MP Maynard | b Brown | 9 | 15 | 27 | 1 | - | 60.00 |
| MH Richardson | c Vaughan b Walmsley | 5 | 15 | 17 | - | - | 33.33 |
| MJ Lamont | not out | 31 | 60 | 72 | 3 | - | 51.67 |
| +PA Campbell | c Patel b Brown | 2 | 4 | 2 | - | - | 50.00 |
| SB O'Connor | c Patel b Brown | 0 | 1 | 5 | - | - | 0.00 |
| RJ Kennedy | lbw b Vaughan | 2 | 4 | 6 | - | - | 50.00 |
| ND Morland | run out | 8 | 32 | 45 | 1 | - | 25.00 |
| DG Sewell | b Barnes | 2 | 3 | 4 | - | - | 66.67 |
| Extras | (8 nb, 4 w) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 27.3 overs) | 91 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-11, 2-20, 3-20, 4-36, 5-37, 6-39, 7-41, 8-44, 9-84, 10-91 (27.3 ov) | |||||||
| Auckland bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Walmsley | 9 | 2 | 33 | 2 | - | - | 27.00 | 3.67 |
| Brown | 10 | 4 | 16 | 5 | - | - | 12.00 | 1.60 |
| Vaughan | 5 | 0 | 16 | 1 | - | - | 30.00 | 3.20 |
| Barnes | 3.3 | 0 | 26 | 1 | - | - | 21.00 | 7.43 |