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| Venue | Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad on 20th May 1997 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Sri Lanka won by 52 runs |
| Points | New Zealand 0; Sri Lanka 2 |
| Umpires | SK Bansal, Javed Akhtar |
| TV umpire | S Venkataraghavan |
| Referee | Hanumant Singh |
| Player of the Match | RS Kaluwitharana |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| ST Jayasuriya | c Cairns b O'Connor | 4 | 12 | 10 | - | - | 33.33 |
| MS Atapattu | run out (Astle) | 41 | 57 | 87 | 6 | - | 71.93 |
| PA de Silva | b O'Connor | 9 | 14 | 13 | 1 | - | 64.29 |
| *A Ranatunga | c Parore b Larsen | 15 | 30 | 38 | 2 | - | 50.00 |
| HP Tillakaratne | b Astle | 29 | 58 | 59 | 3 | - | 50.00 |
| RS Mahanama | c McMillan b O'Connor | 41 | 69 | 76 | 2 | - | 59.42 |
| +RS Kaluwitharana | c Cairns b Astle | 44 | 36 | 59 | 5 | - | 122.22 |
| HDPK Dharmasena | run out (Horne) | 6 | 5 | 6 | - | - | 120.00 |
| WPUJC Vaas | b Larsen | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| M Muralitharan | not out | 9 | 11 | 12 | - | - | 81.82 |
| KSC de Silva | lbw b Larsen | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| Extras | (5 b, 6 lb, 2 nb, 3 w) | 16 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 48.3 overs) | 214 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-6 (Jayasuriya), 2-23 (PA de Silva), 3-68 (Ranatunga), 4-85 (Atapattu), 5-126 (Tillakaratne), 6-173 (Mahanama), 7-188 (Dharmasena), 8-194 (Vaas), 9-210 (Kaluwitharana), 10-214 (KSC de Silva) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| O'Connor | 9 | 0 | 44 | 3 | - | 1 | 18.00 | 4.89 |
| Patel | 10 | 0 | 37 | 0 | - | 2 | - | 3.70 |
| Larsen | 9.3 | 1 | 43 | 3 | 2 | - | 19.00 | 4.53 |
| Harris | 10 | 0 | 30 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.00 |
| Astle | 8 | 1 | 37 | 2 | 1 | - | 24.00 | 4.62 |
| Cairns | 2 | 0 | 12 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.00 |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| BA Young | c Kaluwitharana b KSC de Silva | 22 | 27 | 38 | 3 | - | 81.48 |
| NJ Astle | c Kaluwitharana b Vaas | 9 | 18 | 31 | 1 | - | 50.00 |
| MJ Horne | st Kaluwitharana b Jayasuriya | 41 | 73 | 97 | 2 | 2 | 56.16 |
| *SP Fleming | lbw b PA de Silva | 24 | 53 | 80 | 2 | - | 45.28 |
| CL Cairns | c PA de Silva b Jayasuriya | 6 | 19 | 31 | - | - | 31.58 |
| CD McMillan | st Kaluwitharana b PA de Silva | 10 | 24 | 45 | 1 | - | 41.67 |
| CZ Harris | not out | 26 | 26 | 47 | 2 | - | 100.00 |
| +AC Parore | c Tillakaratne b Dharmasena | 9 | 13 | 18 | 1 | - | 69.23 |
| DN Patel | c Muralitharan b Dharmasena | 5 | 8 | 6 | 1 | - | 62.50 |
| GR Larsen | b Muralitharan | 1 | 3 | 7 | - | - | 33.33 |
| SB O'Connor | c Tillakaratne b Muralitharan | 0 | 7 | 6 | - | - | 0.00 |
| Extras | (1 b, 5 lb, 1 nb, 2 w) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 44.5 overs) | 162 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-29 (Astle), 2-31 (Young), 3-97 (Fleming), 4-103 (Horne), 5-120 (Cairns), 6-120 (McMillan), 7-140 (Parore), 8-147 (Patel), 9-152 (Larsen), 10-162 (O'Connor) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Vaas | 6 | 2 | 23 | 1 | - | - | 36.00 | 3.83 |
| KSC de Silva | 6 | 2 | 13 | 1 | - | - | 36.00 | 2.17 |
| Muralitharan | 9.5 | 1 | 49 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 29.50 | 4.98 |
| Dharmasena | 6 | 0 | 28 | 2 | - | 1 | 18.00 | 4.67 |
| PA de Silva | 10 | 1 | 22 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 2.20 |
| Jayasuriya | 7 | 1 | 21 | 2 | - | - | 21.00 | 3.00 |