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| Venue | Galle International Stadium, Galle on 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th June 1998 (5-day match) | 
| Balls per over | 6 | 
| Toss | New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat | 
| Result | Sri Lanka won by an innings and 16 runs | 
| Umpires | BC Cooray, DL Orchard | 
| TV umpire | KT Francis | 
| Referee | Talat Ali | 
| Close of play day 1 | New Zealand (1) 96/4 (Astle 30*, McMillan 2*; 55.1 overs) | 
| Close of play day 2 | New Zealand (1) 122/5 (Astle 42*, Parore 3*; 73 overs) | 
| Close of play day 3 | Sri Lanka (1) 197/3 (Jayawardene 89*, Ranatunga 33*; 60 overs) | 
| Close of play day 4 | New Zealand (2) 94/5 (Parore 25*, Cairns 16*; 43 overs) | 
| Player of the Match | DPMD Jayawardene | 
| New Zealand first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| BA Young | c Jayasuriya b Bandaratilleke | 46 | 152 | 183 | 6 | - | |
| MJ Horne | c Kaluwitharana b Bandaratilleke | 1 | 5 | 5 | - | - | |
| *SP Fleming | lbw b Dharmasena | 14 | 49 | 57 | 2 | - | |
| NJ Astle | c Tillakaratne b Dharmasena | 53 | 192 | 210 | 4 | 1 | |
| DL Vettori | c Tillakaratne b Bandaratilleke | 0 | 3 | 1 | - | - | |
| CD McMillan | b Bandaratilleke | 13 | 43 | 43 | 1 | - | |
| +AC Parore | c Jayasuriya b Dharmasena | 30 | 87 | 105 | 2 | - | |
| CL Cairns | c Jayasuriya b Dharmasena | 0 | 4 | 6 | - | - | |
| CZ Harris | c Wickramasinghe b Dharmasena | 4 | 14 | 13 | - | - | |
| PJ Wiseman | st Kaluwitharana b Dharmasena | 23 | 47 | 50 | 1 | - | |
| SB O'Connor | not out | 0 | 14 | 9 | - | - | |
| Extras | (7 lb, 2 nb) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 351 minutes, 101.1 overs) | 193 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-5 (Horne, 2.2 ov), 2-21 (Fleming, 16.5 ov), 3-90 (Young, 52.2 ov), 4-90 (Vettori, 52.5 ov), 5-110 (McMillan, 66.3 ov), 6-137 (Astle, 79.1 ov), 7-137 (Cairns, 81.2 ov), 8-147 (Harris, 85.1 ov), 9-190 (Parore, 97.3 ov), 10-193 (Wiseman, 101.1 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Wickramasinghe | 7 | 1 | 20 | 0 | - | - | |
| Dharmasena | 24.1 | 4 | 72 | 6 | - | - | |
| Bandaratilleke | 38 | 13 | 47 | 4 | - | - | |
| Muralitharan | 23 | 9 | 33 | 0 | - | 2 | |
| Jayasuriya | 4 | 1 | 8 | 0 | - | - | |
| de Silva | 5 | 2 | 6 | 0 | - | - | |
| Sri Lanka first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| ST Jayasuriya | c Harris b Vettori | 21 | 31 | 49 | 2 | - | |
| MS Atapattu | c Vettori b Wiseman | 35 | 117 | 130 | 3 | - | |
| DPMD Jayawardene | lbw b Harris | 167 | 278 | 338 | 18 | - | |
| PA de Silva | lbw b Vettori | 10 | 19 | 23 | - | 1 | |
| *A Ranatunga | c O'Connor b Vettori | 36 | 55 | 100 | 1 | 1 | |
| HP Tillakaratne | b Wiseman | 10 | 37 | 63 | 1 | - | |
| +RS Kaluwitharana | run out (Harris) | 3 | 13 | 12 | - | - | |
| HDPK Dharmasena | run out (Harris) | 12 | 65 | 76 | 1 | - | |
| GP Wickramasinghe | c Harris b Vettori | 12 | 18 | 27 | 2 | - | |
| MRCN Bandaratilleke | run out (Harris) | 4 | 6 | 13 | - | - | |
| M Muralitharan | not out | 2 | 2 | 2 | - | - | |
| Extras | (9 lb, 2 nb) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 422 minutes, 106.4 overs) | 323 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-44 (Jayasuriya, 12.2 ov), 2-106 (Atapattu, 37.4 ov), 3-135 (de Silva, 44.2 ov), 4-211 (Ranatunga, 66.4 ov), 5-262 (Tillakaratne, 81.1 ov), 6-271 (Kaluwitharana, 84.3 ov), 7-301 (Jayawardene, 100.2 ov), 8-315 (Dharmasena, 104.4 ov), 9-319 (Wickramasinghe, 105.6 ov), 10-323 (Bandaratilleke, 106.4 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| O'Connor | 4 | 0 | 13 | 0 | - | - | |
| Cairns | 5 | 0 | 20 | 0 | - | - | |
| Wiseman | 30 | 3 | 95 | 2 | - | - | |
| Vettori | 26 | 4 | 88 | 4 | - | - | |
| Harris | 25.4 | 6 | 56 | 1 | - | 2 | |
| McMillan | 11 | 3 | 30 | 0 | - | - | |
| Astle | 5 | 3 | 12 | 0 | - | - | |
| New Zealand second innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| BA Young | c Tillakaratne b Bandaratilleke | 11 | 28 | 38 | 2 | - | |
| MJ Horne | lbw b Bandaratilleke | 3 | 20 | 31 | - | - | |
| *SP Fleming | lbw b Muralitharan | 10 | 43 | 63 | 1 | - | |
| NJ Astle | b de Silva | 13 | 70 | 87 | 1 | - | |
| CD McMillan | c Jayasuriya b Bandaratilleke | 1 | 8 | 10 | - | - | |
| +AC Parore | not out | 32 | 86 | 109 | 3 | - | |
| CL Cairns | c Tillakaratne b Bandaratilleke | 16 | 38 | 30 | 1 | 1 | |
| CZ Harris | c Jayawardene b Muralitharan | 9 | 12 | 10 | 1 | - | |
| DL Vettori | run out (Bandaratilleke) | 0 | 3 | 4 | - | - | |
| PJ Wiseman | c Tillakaratne b Bandaratilleke | 2 | 4 | 3 | - | - | |
| SB O'Connor | c Jayasuriya b Muralitharan | 0 | 24 | 16 | - | - | |
| Extras | (7 b, 7 lb, 2 nb, 1 w) | 17 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 201 minutes, 55 overs) | 114 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-18 (Horne, 7.1 ov), 2-21 (Young, 9.1 ov), 3-40 (Fleming, 20.5 ov), 4-41 (McMillan, 23.5 ov), 5-69 (Astle, 34.1 ov), 6-94 (Cairns, 43.3 ov), 7-103 (Harris, 46.2 ov), 8-106 (Vettori, 48.4 ov), 9-109 (Wiseman, 49.3 ov), 10-114 (O'Connor, 55 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Wickramasinghe | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | - | - | |
| Bandaratilleke | 24 | 9 | 36 | 5 | - | 1 | |
| de Silva | 7 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Dharmasena | 6 | 0 | 16 | 0 | - | - | |
| Muralitharan | 16 | 7 | 24 | 3 | - | 1 | |