| a11270 o1342 | |
| Venue | Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo on 3rd July 1998 (50-over match) | 
| Balls per over | 6 | 
| Toss | New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat | 
| Result | No result | 
| Points | India 1; New Zealand 1 | 
| Umpires | BC Cooray, DN Pathirana | 
| TV umpire | I Anandappa | 
| Referee | CW Smith | 
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| BA Young | st Mongia b Kumble | 26 | 52 | 83 | 3 | - | 50.00 | 
| NJ Astle | c Kumble b Prasad | 15 | 13 | 24 | 3 | - | 115.38 | 
| *SP Fleming | c Tendulkar b Harbhajan Singh | 20 | 27 | 29 | 3 | - | 74.07 | 
| CD McMillan | c Ganguly b Kanitkar | 26 | 39 | 58 | 2 | - | 66.67 | 
| MJ Horne | st Mongia b Harbhajan Singh | 0 | 7 | 6 | - | - | 0.00 | 
| CL Cairns | not out | 19 | 33 | 40 | - | - | 57.58 | 
| +AC Parore | not out | 9 | 14 | 17 | - | - | 64.29 | 
| CZ Harris | did not bat | ||||||
| DJ Nash | did not bat | ||||||
| DL Vettori | did not bat | ||||||
| PJ Wiseman | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 1 lb, 1 nb, 9 w) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, 31.1 overs) | 128 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-28 (Astle, 5.4 ov), 2-57 (Fleming, 12.2 ov), 3-85 (Young, 19.1 ov), 4-89 (Horne, 20.4 ov), 5-111 (McMillan, 26.4 ov) | |||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ | 
| Agarkar | 7 | 0 | 39 | 0 | - | 1 | - | 5.57 | 
| Prasad | 5 | 1 | 23 | 1 | 5 | - | 30.00 | 4.60 | 
| Harbhajan Singh | 8 | 0 | 26 | 2 | 3 | - | 24.00 | 3.25 | 
| Kumble | 6 | 1 | 15 | 1 | - | - | 36.00 | 2.50 | 
| Kanitkar | 5 | 0 | 21 | 1 | 1 | - | 30.00 | 4.20 | 
| RR Singh | 0.1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.00 | 
| India innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| SC Ganguly | did not bat | ||||||
| SR Tendulkar | did not bat | ||||||
| *M Azharuddin | did not bat | ||||||
| AD Jadeja | did not bat | ||||||
| HH Kanitkar | did not bat | ||||||
| RR Singh | did not bat | ||||||
| +NR Mongia | did not bat | ||||||
| AB Agarkar | did not bat | ||||||
| A Kumble | did not bat | ||||||
| BKV Prasad | did not bat | ||||||
| Harbhajan Singh | did not bat | ||||||