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| Venue | McLean Park, Napier on 6th March 1998 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Zimbabwe won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | New Zealand won by 9 wickets |
| Umpires | DB Cowie, AL Hill |
| TV umpire | CE King |
| Referee | Hanumant Singh |
| Player of the Match | NJ Astle |
| Zimbabwe innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| GW Flower | run out (Cairns) | 11 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 84.62 |
| CB Wishart | c Astle b Harris | 41 | 65 | 101 | 3 | - | 63.08 |
| MW Goodwin | c Vettori b Cairns | 1 | 14 | 19 | - | - | 7.14 |
| *ADR Campbell | c Astle b O'Connor | 18 | 22 | 24 | 3 | - | 81.82 |
| +A Flower | c Parore b Nash | 30 | 46 | 61 | 1 | - | 65.22 |
| GJ Whittall | b Nash | 18 | 41 | 52 | - | - | 43.90 |
| DP Viljoen | c Fleming b Nash | 7 | 16 | 17 | - | - | 43.75 |
| HH Streak | c and b Harris | 9 | 21 | 29 | - | - | 42.86 |
| PA Strang | not out | 31 | 36 | 46 | - | - | 86.11 |
| JA Rennie | not out | 23 | 28 | 34 | 1 | - | 82.14 |
| AR Whittall | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (7 lb, 2 nb, 9 w) | 18 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 207 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-15 (GW Flower, 3.1 ov), 2-25 (Goodwin, 7.5 ov), 3-56 (Campbell, 13.5 ov), 4-107 (Wishart, 25.3 ov), 5-122 (A Flower, 29.1 ov), 6-134 (Viljoen, 33.3 ov), 7-145 (GJ Whittall, 37.2 ov), 8-153 (Streak, 40.3 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| O'Connor | 10 | 1 | 53 | 1 | 3 | - | 60.00 | 5.30 |
| Cairns | 10 | 1 | 39 | 1 | 1 | - | 60.00 | 3.90 |
| Nash | 10 | 2 | 29 | 3 | - | 1 | 20.00 | 2.90 |
| Vettori | 10 | 0 | 49 | 0 | 5 | 1 | - | 4.90 |
| Harris | 10 | 0 | 30 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 3.00 |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| LG Howell | c Wishart b Viljoen | 66 | 91 | 124 | 3 | 2 | 72.53 |
| NJ Astle | not out | 104 | 137 | 166 | 2 | 3 | 75.91 |
| *SP Fleming | not out | 33 | 46 | 51 | 4 | - | 71.74 |
| MJ Horne | did not bat | ||||||
| CD McMillan | did not bat | ||||||
| CL Cairns | did not bat | ||||||
| +AC Parore | did not bat | ||||||
| CZ Harris | did not bat | ||||||
| DJ Nash | did not bat | ||||||
| DL Vettori | did not bat | ||||||
| SB O'Connor | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (3 lb, 5 w) | 8 | |||||
| Total | (1 wicket, 45.4 overs) | 211 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-147 (Howell, 31.5 ov) | |||||||
| Zimbabwe bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Streak | 6 | 1 | 23 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.83 |
| Rennie | 7 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 5.00 |
| AR Whittall | 10 | 0 | 43 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 4.30 |
| Strang | 7 | 0 | 38 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.43 |
| Viljoen | 6 | 0 | 30 | 1 | - | - | 36.00 | 5.00 |
| GW Flower | 8 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 3.75 |
| Goodwin | 1.4 | 0 | 9 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.40 |