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| Venue | Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah on 20th April 1998 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | India won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | New Zealand won by 4 wickets |
| Points | India 0; New Zealand 2 |
| Umpires | SA Bucknor, Javed Akhtar |
| TV umpire | ID Robinson |
| Referee | Talat Ali |
| Player of the Match | CD McMillan |
| India innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| SR Tendulkar | run out (Harris->Parore) | 38 | 58 | 93 | 2 | - | 65.52 |
| SC Ganguly | c Fleming b Cairns | 31 | 36 | 54 | 4 | - | 86.11 |
| *M Azharuddin | run out (McMillan->Parore) | 11 | 28 | 31 | - | - | 39.29 |
| AD Jadeja | run out (Fleming->Parore) | 11 | 30 | 28 | - | - | 36.67 |
| VVS Laxman | c O'Connor b Priest | 23 | 56 | 69 | 1 | - | 41.07 |
| +NR Mongia | c McMillan b Cairns | 22 | 25 | 22 | - | 1 | 88.00 |
| HH Kanitkar | b Priest | 13 | 24 | 32 | - | - | 54.17 |
| A Kumble | b Astle | 10 | 18 | 25 | - | - | 55.56 |
| Harvinder Singh | b Cairns | 0 | 2 | 4 | - | - | 0.00 |
| BKV Prasad | c Wiseman b Astle | 8 | 13 | 19 | - | - | 61.54 |
| Harbhajan Singh | not out | 3 | 6 | 7 | - | - | 50.00 |
| Extras | (3 lb, 8 w) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 49.3 overs) | 181 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-60 (Ganguly, 12.3 ov), 2-82 (Azharuddin, 19.6 ov), 3-85 (Tendulkar, 22.1 ov), 4-100 (Jadeja, 29.2 ov), 5-131 (Mongia, 36.4 ov), 6-153 (Laxman, 41.6 ov), 7-161 (Kanitkar, 43.6 ov), 8-162 (Harvinder Singh, 44.3 ov), 9-172 (Kumble, 47.3 ov), 10-181 (Prasad, 49.3 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Doull | 5 | 0 | 20 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.00 |
| O'Connor | 4 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 3 | - | - | 7.25 |
| McMillan | 6 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 4.17 |
| Cairns | 10 | 1 | 26 | 3 | 3 | - | 20.00 | 2.60 |
| Harris | 10 | 2 | 24 | 0 | - | - | - | 2.40 |
| Priest | 10 | 1 | 44 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 4.40 |
| Astle | 4.3 | 0 | 10 | 2 | - | - | 13.50 | 2.22 |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| MJ Horne | c Azharuddin b Harvinder Singh | 4 | 11 | 26 | - | - | 36.36 |
| NJ Astle | c Mongia b Prasad | 14 | 20 | 19 | - | 1 | 70.00 |
| *SP Fleming | b Kumble | 33 | 47 | 69 | 5 | - | 70.21 |
| CD McMillan | c Mongia b Tendulkar | 59 | 122 | 163 | 1 | 1 | 48.36 |
| CL Cairns | c Laxman b Prasad | 19 | 39 | 47 | 1 | 1 | 48.72 |
| +AC Parore | c Harvinder Singh b Kumble | 27 | 38 | 56 | 3 | - | 71.05 |
| CZ Harris | not out | 9 | 12 | 23 | 1 | - | 75.00 |
| MW Priest | not out | 2 | 8 | 14 | - | - | 25.00 |
| SB Doull | did not bat | ||||||
| PJ Wiseman | did not bat | ||||||
| SB O'Connor | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (8 lb, 3 nb, 5 w) | 16 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, 49 overs) | 183 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-18 (Astle, 4.4 ov), 2-22 (Horne, 5.6 ov), 3-82 (Fleming, 19.3 ov), 4-116 (Cairns, 31.1 ov), 5-165 (McMillan, 43.6 ov), 6-168 (Parore, 46.2 ov) | |||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Prasad | 10 | 0 | 34 | 2 | - | 3 | 30.00 | 3.40 |
| Harvinder Singh | 5 | 0 | 25 | 1 | - | - | 30.00 | 5.00 |
| Kumble | 10 | 0 | 26 | 2 | 3 | - | 30.00 | 2.60 |
| Harbhajan Singh | 10 | 1 | 30 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 3.00 |
| Kanitkar | 2 | 0 | 12 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.00 |
| Tendulkar | 7 | 0 | 28 | 1 | 1 | - | 42.00 | 4.00 |
| Ganguly | 5 | 0 | 20 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.00 |