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| Venue | Harare Sports Club, Harare on 4th October 1997 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Zimbabwe won by 3 wickets |
| Umpires | GR Evans, ID Robinson |
| TV umpire | RB Tiffin |
| Referee | S Wettimuny |
| Player of the Match | PA Strang |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| CM Spearman | c Campbell b JA Rennie | 1 | 4 | 6 | - | - | 25.00 |
| NJ Astle | b Strang | 36 | 50 | 75 | 6 | 1 | 72.00 |
| MJ Horne | run out (GW Flower) | 22 | 31 | 48 | 3 | - | 70.97 |
| *SP Fleming | c GJ Rennie b Evans | 5 | 16 | 22 | 1 | - | 31.25 |
| CL Cairns | c JA Rennie b Evans | 16 | 50 | 57 | - | - | 32.00 |
| CD McMillan | st A Flower b AR Whittall | 38 | 84 | 86 | 1 | - | 45.24 |
| +AC Parore | c A Flower b JA Rennie | 15 | 34 | 49 | - | - | 44.12 |
| CZ Harris | not out | 29 | 25 | 31 | 4 | - | 116.00 |
| DL Vettori | not out | 3 | 6 | 13 | - | - | 50.00 |
| GR Larsen | did not bat | ||||||
| SB O'Connor | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (6 lb, 14 w) | 20 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 185 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-6 (Spearman), 2-61 (Horne), 3-74 (Astle), 4-74 (Fleming), 5-116 (Cairns), 6-143 (McMillan), 7-160 (Parore) | |||||||
| Zimbabwe bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Brandes | 6 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 4.67 |
| JA Rennie | 9 | 1 | 48 | 2 | 3 | - | 27.00 | 5.33 |
| GJ Whittall | 5 | 0 | 37 | 0 | 3 | 1 | - | 7.40 |
| Strang | 10 | 1 | 13 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 1.30 |
| Evans | 10 | 1 | 27 | 2 | 2 | - | 30.00 | 2.70 |
| AR Whittall | 10 | 1 | 26 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 2.60 |
| Zimbabwe innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| GJ Rennie | lbw b Astle | 72 | 125 | 164 | 5 | - | 57.60 |
| GW Flower | c Cairns b Larsen | 4 | 3 | 8 | 1 | - | 133.33 |
| +A Flower | c McMillan b O'Connor | 5 | 18 | 21 | 1 | - | 27.78 |
| GJ Whittall | c O'Connor b Harris | 7 | 13 | 21 | 1 | - | 53.85 |
| *ADR Campbell | not out | 77 | 114 | 137 | 4 | 3 | 67.54 |
| DL Houghton | c Vettori b McMillan | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 | - | 80.00 |
| CN Evans | c O'Connor b Astle | 1 | 9 | 7 | - | - | 11.11 |
| PA Strang | c and b McMillan | 2 | 4 | 7 | - | - | 50.00 |
| EA Brandes | not out | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | 400.00 |
| JA Rennie | did not bat | ||||||
| AR Whittall | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 3 lb, 2 nb, 6 w) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, 48.2 overs) | 188 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-12 (GW Flower), 2-28 (A Flower), 3-42 (GJ Whittall), 4-165 (GJ Rennie), 5-170 (Houghton), 6-174 (Evans), 7-180 (Strang) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| O'Connor | 8 | 0 | 40 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 48.00 | 5.00 |
| Larsen | 10 | 0 | 32 | 1 | 1 | - | 60.00 | 3.20 |
| Cairns | 7 | 1 | 25 | 0 | 3 | - | - | 3.57 |
| Harris | 6 | 1 | 21 | 1 | - | - | 36.00 | 3.50 |
| Vettori | 4 | 0 | 21 | 0 | - | 1 | - | 5.25 |
| Astle | 9.2 | 0 | 28 | 2 | 2 | - | 28.00 | 3.00 |
| McMillan | 4 | 0 | 17 | 2 | - | - | 12.00 | 4.25 |