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| Venue | Basin Reserve, Wellington on 6th February 1998 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | New Zealand won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | New Zealand won by 8 wickets |
| Umpires | CE King, EA Watkin |
| TV umpire | DB Cowie |
| Referee | Hanumant Singh |
| Scorer | C Styles (New Zealand) |
| Player of the Match | SB O'Connor |
| Zimbabwe innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| GW Flower | c and b Doull | 11 | 29 | 48 | - | - | 37.93 |
| CB Wishart | c Astle b O'Connor | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| MW Goodwin | c Fleming b O'Connor | 3 | 7 | 9 | - | - | 42.86 |
| +A Flower | c McMillan b Cairns | 0 | 7 | 5 | - | - | 0.00 |
| *ADR Campbell | c Harris b O'Connor | 23 | 59 | 72 | 3 | - | 38.98 |
| GJ Whittall | c and b Harris | 31 | 77 | 114 | 1 | - | 40.26 |
| DP Viljoen | c Parore b Doull | 36 | 69 | 75 | 3 | - | 52.17 |
| PA Strang | b Nash | 8 | 17 | 26 | - | - | 47.06 |
| HH Streak | c Parore b O'Connor | 10 | 20 | 29 | - | - | 50.00 |
| JA Rennie | b O'Connor | 5 | 7 | 10 | 1 | - | 71.43 |
| AR Whittall | not out | 1 | 3 | 4 | - | - | 33.33 |
| Extras | (4 lb, 1 nb, 5 w) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 49 overs) | 138 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-1 (Wishart, 0.3 ov), 2-6 (Goodwin, 2.4 ov), 3-7 (A Flower, 3.5 ov), 4-23 (GW Flower, 11.2 ov), 5-48 (Campbell, 21.1 ov), 6-114 (GJ Whittall, 40.6 ov), 7-114 (Viljoen, 41.2 ov), 8-131 (Strang, 47.1 ov), 9-133 (Streak, 48.1 ov), 10-138 (Rennie, 49 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| O'Connor | 10 | 0 | 39 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 12.00 | 3.90 |
| Cairns | 7 | 2 | 10 | 1 | - | - | 42.00 | 1.43 |
| Nash | 7 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 42.00 | 2.00 |
| Doull | 10 | 1 | 26 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 2.60 |
| Astle | 5 | 1 | 16 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.20 |
| Harris | 10 | 2 | 29 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 2.90 |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| LG Howell | c Wishart b Streak | 7 | 15 | 21 | - | - | 46.67 |
| NJ Astle | run out (Streak) | 67 | 89 | 105 | 8 | 2 | 75.28 |
| +AC Parore | not out | 36 | 56 | 92 | 2 | - | 64.29 |
| *SP Fleming | not out | 17 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 154.55 |
| CD McMillan | did not bat | ||||||
| CL Cairns | did not bat | ||||||
| CZ Harris | did not bat | ||||||
| DJ Nash | did not bat | ||||||
| DL Vettori | did not bat | ||||||
| SB Doull | did not bat | ||||||
| SB O'Connor | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 4 lb, 1 nb, 5 w) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (2 wickets, 28.2 overs) | 139 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-18 (Howell, 4.6 ov), 2-121 (Astle, 26.1 ov) | |||||||
| Zimbabwe bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Streak | 7 | 0 | 20 | 1 | 1 | - | 42.00 | 2.86 |
| Rennie | 5 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 3 | 1 | - | 5.40 |
| Strang | 6 | 0 | 30 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.00 |
| AR Whittall | 5 | 0 | 40 | 0 | - | - | - | 8.00 |
| GJ Whittall | 5.2 | 1 | 16 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 3.00 |