| a10410 | |
| Venue | McLean Park, Napier on 20th March 1997 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Central Districts won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Sri Lankans won by 6 wickets |
| Umpires | DB Cowie, EA Watkin |
| Man of the Match | A Ranatunga |
| Central Districts innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| CM Spearman | b Chandana | 56 | 60 | 72 | 11 | - | 93.33 |
| GP Sulzberger | c and b Dharmasena | 16 | 41 | 64 | 1 | - | 39.02 |
| +MS Sinclair | c Chandana b Jayasuriya | 67 | 101 | 101 | 3 | - | 66.34 |
| LG Howell | c Kaluwitharana b Chandana | 9 | 8 | 12 | 2 | - | 112.50 |
| *MJ Greatbatch | c Pushpakumara b Kalpage | 0 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| MDJ Walker | lbw b Jayasuriya | 18 | 32 | 30 | 2 | - | 56.25 |
| CJM Furlong | st Kaluwitharana b Jayasuriya | 10 | 12 | 12 | - | - | 83.33 |
| AJ Penn | c KSC de Silva b Chandana | 21 | 24 | 28 | 2 | - | 87.50 |
| CO Findlay | not out | 13 | 14 | 18 | 1 | - | 92.86 |
| BR Williams | c Pushpakumara b Jayasuriya | 4 | 5 | 7 | - | - | 80.00 |
| CE Bulfin | b Jayasuriya | 5 | 3 | 2 | - | - | 166.67 |
| Extras | (4 b, 1 lb, 2 nb, 1 w) | 8 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 50 overs) | 227 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-74 (Sulzberger), 2-83 (Spearman), 3-97 (Howell), 4-98 (Greatbatch), 5-136 (Walker), 6-156 (Furlong), 7-201 (Penn), 8-213 (Sinclair), 9-220 (Williams), 10-227 (Bulfin) | |||||||
| Sri Lankans bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Pushpakumara | 3 | 0 | 28 | 0 | - | 2 | - | 9.33 |
| KSC de Silva | 7 | 2 | 25 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.57 |
| Dharmasena | 8 | 1 | 32 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 4.00 |
| Kalpage | 10 | 0 | 44 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 4.40 |
| Chandana | 10 | 0 | 37 | 3 | - | - | 20.00 | 3.70 |
| Jayasuriya | 9 | 0 | 37 | 5 | - | - | 10.80 | 4.11 |
| PA de Silva | 3 | 0 | 19 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.33 |
| Sri Lankans innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| ST Jayasuriya | lbw b Penn | 0 | 5 | 5 | - | - | 0.00 |
| +RS Kaluwitharana | c Sinclair b Findlay | 21 | 12 | 18 | 4 | - | 175.00 |
| MS Atapattu | b Williams | 14 | 28 | 46 | 2 | - | 50.00 |
| PA de Silva | c Penn b Williams | 34 | 25 | 36 | 6 | 1 | 136.00 |
| *A Ranatunga | not out | 96 | 116 | 122 | 13 | 1 | 82.76 |
| HP Tillakaratne | not out | 47 | 86 | 118 | 3 | - | 54.65 |
| RS Kalpage | did not bat | ||||||
| HDPK Dharmasena | did not bat | ||||||
| UDU Chandana | did not bat | ||||||
| KSC de Silva | did not bat | ||||||
| KR Pushpakumara | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (6 lb, 5 nb, 5 w) | 16 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, 43.3 overs) | 228 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-6 (Jayasuriya), 2-29 (Kaluwitharana), 3-73 (Atapattu), 4-78 (PA de Silva) | |||||||
| Central Districts bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Penn | 9 | 1 | 47 | 1 | 3 | - | 54.00 | 5.22 |
| Findlay | 7 | 0 | 43 | 1 | - | 2 | 42.00 | 6.14 |
| Williams | 5 | 0 | 27 | 2 | - | - | 15.00 | 5.40 |
| Bulfin | 5 | 0 | 18 | 0 | - | 3 | - | 3.60 |
| Furlong | 7 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 5.00 |
| Sulzberger | 4 | 0 | 19 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.75 |
| Walker | 5 | 0 | 16 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.20 |
| Spearman | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | - | - | - | 11.00 |
| Greatbatch | 0.3 | 0 | 6 | 0 | - | - | - | 12.00 |