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| Venue | R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo on 21st June 1998 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Sri Lanka won by 7 wickets |
| Points | Sri Lanka 2; New Zealand 0 |
| Umpires | BC Cooray, DN Pathirana |
| TV umpire | KT Francis |
| Referee | CW Smith |
| Player of the Match | MS Atapattu |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| BA Young | c Chandana b Dharmasena | 55 | 52 | 58 | 7 | - | 105.77 |
| NJ Astle | b Muralitharan | 33 | 60 | 96 | 1 | 1 | 55.00 |
| *SP Fleming | run out (Muralitharan->Chandana) | 47 | 75 | 105 | 2 | - | 62.67 |
| MJ Horne | st Kaluwitharana b Dharmasena | 1 | 5 | 5 | - | - | 20.00 |
| CD McMillan | c Muralitharan b Chandana | 26 | 45 | 54 | 1 | - | 57.78 |
| CL Cairns | c Atapattu b Chandana | 7 | 17 | 19 | - | - | 41.18 |
| +AC Parore | c Kaluwitharana b Chandana | 1 | 4 | 6 | - | - | 25.00 |
| CZ Harris | b Dharmasena | 7 | 15 | 28 | - | - | 46.67 |
| DJ Nash | run out (Bandaratilleke->Kaluwitharana) | 1 | 13 | 13 | - | - | 7.69 |
| DL Vettori | not out | 4 | 10 | 10 | - | - | 40.00 |
| SB O'Connor | not out | 6 | 4 | 4 | - | 1 | 150.00 |
| Extras | (9 lb, 3 w) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 200 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-71 (Young, 14.4 ov), 2-107 (Astle, 23.4 ov), 3-112 (Horne, 24.5 ov), 4-169 (McMillan, 39.1 ov), 5-171 (Fleming, 39.4 ov), 6-176 (Parore, 41.3 ov), 7-179 (Cairns, 43.5 ov), 8-186 (Nash, 47.1 ov), 9-189 (Harris, 48.4 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Wickramasinghe | 6 | 0 | 35 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.83 |
| Bandaratilleke | 10 | 0 | 41 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 4.10 |
| Dharmasena | 10 | 0 | 40 | 3 | - | - | 20.00 | 4.00 |
| Muralitharan | 10 | 1 | 24 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 2.40 |
| Jayasuriya | 7 | 0 | 27 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.86 |
| Chandana | 7 | 1 | 24 | 3 | 1 | - | 14.00 | 3.43 |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| ST Jayasuriya | c McMillan b Vettori | 57 | 62 | 82 | 6 | - | 91.94 |
| +RS Kaluwitharana | hit wkt b O'Connor | 2 | 3 | 3 | - | - | 66.67 |
| MS Atapattu | not out | 83 | 118 | 162 | 9 | - | 70.34 |
| PA de Silva | b Astle | 42 | 46 | 69 | 4 | 1 | 91.30 |
| *A Ranatunga | not out | 6 | 11 | 12 | - | - | 54.55 |
| UDU Chandana | did not bat | ||||||
| RS Mahanama | did not bat | ||||||
| HDPK Dharmasena | did not bat | ||||||
| GP Wickramasinghe | did not bat | ||||||
| MRCN Bandaratilleke | did not bat | ||||||
| M Muralitharan | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 b, 3 lb, 4 w) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (3 wickets, 40 overs) | 201 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-3 (Kaluwitharana, 0.6 ov), 2-85 (Jayasuriya, 18.1 ov), 3-180 (de Silva, 36.4 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| O'Connor | 4 | 0 | 21 | 1 | 3 | - | 24.00 | 5.25 |
| Nash | 6 | 0 | 25 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.17 |
| Cairns | 5 | 0 | 24 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.80 |
| Harris | 10 | 0 | 50 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.00 |
| Vettori | 8 | 0 | 41 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 5.12 |
| McMillan | 4 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 7.75 |
| Astle | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 18.00 | 0.67 |