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| Venue | Trust Bank Park, Hamilton on 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th March 1997 (5-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | New Zealand won by 120 runs |
| Umpires | DB Cowie, Mahboob Shah |
| TV umpire | BF Bowden |
| Referee | PJP Burge |
| Scorers | TW Andersson, PG Rice |
| Close of play day 1 | New Zealand (1) 222 all out |
| Close of play day 2 | New Zealand (2) 53/1 (Young 22*, Horne 14*) |
| Close of play day 3 | Sri Lanka (2) 20/2 (Mahanama 6*, Vaas 0*) |
| Player of the Match | DL Vettori |
| New Zealand first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| BA Pocock | c Tillakaratne b Muralitharan | 85 | 239 | 288 | 5 | - | |
| BA Young | run out (PA de Silva) | 4 | 28 | 44 | - | - | |
| MJ Horne | b Zoysa | 21 | 82 | 102 | 2 | - | |
| *SP Fleming | c Mahanama b Zoysa | 2 | 14 | 15 | - | - | |
| NJ Astle | lbw b Zoysa | 0 | 12 | 10 | - | - | |
| CL Cairns | c Ranatunga b Dharmasena | 10 | 53 | 62 | - | - | |
| +AC Parore | run out (Mahanama) | 25 | 35 | 47 | 4 | - | |
| DN Patel | c Dharmasena b Muralitharan | 13 | 21 | 36 | 2 | - | |
| DL Vettori | b Muralitharan | 4 | 12 | 17 | 1 | - | |
| SB Doull | c PA de Silva b Vaas | 20 | 30 | 47 | 2 | - | |
| HT Davis | not out | 8 | 34 | 31 | 1 | - | |
| Extras | (11 b, 9 lb, 10 nb) | 30 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 354 minutes, 90.4 overs) | 222 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-19 (Young), 2-88 (Horne), 3-96 (Fleming), 4-100 (Astle), 5-126 (Cairns), 6-172 (Parore), 7-172 (Pocock), 8-178 (Vettori), 9-203 (Patel), 10-222 (Doull, 90.4 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Vaas | 12.4 | 1 | 32 | 1 | - | 3 | |
| Zoysa | 18 | 3 | 47 | 3 | - | 7 | |
| KSC de Silva | 15 | 4 | 36 | 0 | - | - | |
| Dharmasena | 22 | 7 | 39 | 1 | - | - | |
| Muralitharan | 22 | 4 | 43 | 3 | - | 2 | |
| Jayasuriya | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | - | - | |
| Sri Lanka first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| ST Jayasuriya | c Astle b Davis | 20 | 36 | 46 | 2 | - | |
| RS Mahanama | lbw b Vettori | 45 | 84 | 136 | 4 | - | |
| HP Tillakaratne | c Young b Doull | 2 | 28 | 41 | - | - | |
| PA de Silva | c Parore b Vettori | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | - | |
| *A Ranatunga | lbw b Davis | 4 | 23 | 30 | - | - | |
| +RS Kaluwitharana | c Parore b Davis | 11 | 24 | 26 | 2 | - | |
| HDPK Dharmasena | c Fleming b Davis | 27 | 86 | 119 | 2 | 1 | |
| WPUJC Vaas | c Pocock b Vettori | 28 | 98 | 120 | 4 | - | |
| DNT Zoysa | c Doull b Vettori | 14 | 16 | 28 | 1 | 1 | |
| KSC de Silva | not out | 0 | 12 | 19 | - | - | |
| M Muralitharan | c Parore b Davis | 5 | 4 | 5 | 1 | - | |
| Extras | (9 lb, 3 nb, 1 w) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 291 minutes, 68.2 overs) | 170 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-39 (Jayasuriya), 2-57 (Tillakaratne), 3-58 (PA de Silva), 4-76 (Ranatunga), 5-87 (Mahanama), 6-93 (Kaluwitharana), 7-144 (Dharmasena), 8-154 (Vaas), 9-165 (Zoysa), 10-170 (Muralitharan, 68.2 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Doull | 13 | 4 | 19 | 1 | - | 2 | |
| Davis | 20.2 | 3 | 63 | 5 | 1 | 1 | |
| Astle | 3 | 1 | 8 | 0 | - | - | |
| Vettori | 24 | 8 | 46 | 4 | - | - | |
| Patel | 8 | 2 | 25 | 0 | - | - | |
| New Zealand second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| BA Young | c Ranatunga b Dharmasena | 62 | 127 | 167 | 8 | 1 | |
| BA Pocock | c Mahanama b Zoysa | 7 | 11 | 22 | 1 | - | |
| MJ Horne | st Kaluwitharana b Muralitharan | 16 | 64 | 83 | 1 | - | |
| *SP Fleming | b Muralitharan | 59 | 117 | 177 | 8 | 1 | |
| NJ Astle | c Mahanama b Vaas | 52 | 151 | 191 | 5 | 2 | |
| CL Cairns | c sub (UDU Chandana) b Muralitharan | 4 | 17 | 21 | 1 | - | |
| +AC Parore | run out (Tillakaratne) | 2 | 6 | 5 | - | - | |
| DN Patel | c PA de Silva b Dharmasena | 4 | 15 | 14 | - | - | |
| DL Vettori | b Zoysa | 6 | 36 | 36 | - | - | |
| SB Doull | c Mahanama b Zoysa | 25 | 30 | 41 | 3 | - | |
| HT Davis | not out | 2 | 19 | 36 | - | - | |
| Extras | (9 b, 11 lb, 7 nb, 7 w) | 34 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 401 minutes, 97.4 overs) | 273 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-14 (Pocock), 2-64 (Horne), 3-108 (Young), 4-183 (Fleming), 5-198 (Cairns), 6-201 (Parore), 7-211 (Patel), 8-239 (Astle), 9-243 (Vettori), 10-273 (Doull, 97.4 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Vaas | 15 | 3 | 34 | 1 | - | - | |
| Zoysa | 22.4 | 7 | 53 | 3 | 7 | 3 | |
| Dharmasena | 24 | 5 | 75 | 2 | - | - | |
| KSC de Silva | 10 | 2 | 29 | 0 | - | - | |
| Muralitharan | 26 | 7 | 62 | 3 | - | 4 | |
| Sri Lanka second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| ST Jayasuriya | run out (Doull) | 3 | 4 | 7 | - | - | |
| RS Mahanama | lbw b Doull | 65 | 188 | 252 | 6 | - | |
| HP Tillakaratne | b Vettori | 10 | 26 | 35 | 1 | - | |
| WPUJC Vaas | c Patel b Vettori | 8 | 36 | 51 | 1 | - | |
| PA de Silva | lbw b Doull | 5 | 16 | 24 | - | - | |
| *A Ranatunga | c Doull b Vettori | 33 | 70 | 99 | 3 | 1 | |
| +RS Kaluwitharana | lbw b Doull | 13 | 12 | 23 | 2 | - | |
| HDPK Dharmasena | not out | 38 | 57 | 69 | 3 | 1 | |
| DNT Zoysa | c Parore b Vettori | 13 | 30 | 31 | 3 | - | |
| KSC de Silva | c Young b Davis | 0 | 8 | 12 | - | - | |
| M Muralitharan | c Cairns b Vettori | 7 | 11 | 16 | 1 | - | |
| Extras | (4 b, 5 lb, 1 w) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 314 minutes, 76.2 overs) | 205 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-5 (Jayasuriya), 2-16 (Tillakaratne), 3-40 (Vaas), 4-50 (PA de Silva), 5-129 (Ranatunga), 6-147 (Kaluwitharana), 7-152 (Mahanama), 8-185 (Zoysa), 9-186 (KSC de Silva), 10-205 (Muralitharan, 76.2 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Doull | 15 | 4 | 34 | 3 | - | - | |
| Davis | 17 | 4 | 35 | 1 | 1 | - | |
| Vettori | 29.2 | 8 | 84 | 5 | - | - | |
| Patel | 12 | 5 | 34 | 0 | - | - | |
| Astle | 3 | 1 | 9 | 0 | - | - | |