| a11401 | |
| Venue | Tenaga National Sports Complex, Kuala Lumpur on 18th September 1998 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | New Zealand won by 51 runs |
| Umpires | RE Koertzen, Saleem Badar |
| TV umpire | DL Orchard |
| Referee | PL van der Merwe |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| MD Bell | c Jayawardene b Perera | 2 | 5 | 4 | - | - | 40.00 |
| NJ Astle | run out (Hathurusingha->de Silva) | 56 | 86 | 132 | 7 | - | 65.12 |
| *SP Fleming | c Arnold b Chandana | 16 | 50 | 99 | 1 | - | 32.00 |
| CD McMillan | b Arnold | 5 | 12 | 12 | - | - | 41.67 |
| +AC Parore | run out (Samaraweera) | 16 | 29 | 30 | 2 | - | 55.17 |
| CZ Harris | not out | 56 | 71 | 82 | 2 | 4 | 78.87 |
| MD Bailey | run out (Tillakaratne) | 21 | 49 | 62 | - | - | 42.86 |
| AR Tait | st de Silva b Samaraweera | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | - | 300.00 |
| DL Vettori | did not bat | ||||||
| PJ Wiseman | did not bat | ||||||
| SB O'Connor | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (8 lb, 4 nb, 22 w) | 34 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 212 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-6, 2-92, 3-100, 4-114, 5-125, 6-195, 7-212 (50 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Perera | 5 | 0 | 39 | 1 | 16 | - | 30.00 | 7.80 |
| Gallage | 7 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 4 | - | - | 4.00 |
| Hathurusingha | 9 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 3.78 |
| Chandana | 9 | 1 | 28 | 1 | - | 3 | 54.00 | 3.11 |
| Samaraweera | 10 | 1 | 48 | 1 | 1 | - | 60.00 | 4.80 |
| Arnold | 10 | 1 | 27 | 1 | - | 1 | 60.00 | 2.70 |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| DA Gunawardene | b Vettori | 30 | 58 | 68 | 3 | - | 51.72 |
| +SKL de Silva | c Fleming b O'Connor | 7 | 10 | 11 | 1 | - | 70.00 |
| RP Arnold | lbw b Astle | 12 | 20 | 27 | 2 | - | 60.00 |
| DPMD Jayawardene | c and b Vettori | 8 | 29 | 34 | - | - | 27.59 |
| *HP Tillakaratne | lbw b Vettori | 6 | 5 | 12 | 1 | - | 120.00 |
| UC Hathurusingha | lbw b Astle | 34 | 55 | 58 | 3 | 1 | 61.82 |
| SI de Saram | lbw b Harris | 1 | 13 | 10 | - | - | 7.69 |
| UDU Chandana | run out (Harris) | 1 | 4 | 3 | - | - | 25.00 |
| ASA Perera | b Harris | 45 | 55 | 59 | 4 | 1 | 81.82 |
| TT Samaraweera | b Tait | 5 | 15 | 17 | - | - | 33.33 |
| IS Gallage | not out | 2 | 4 | 5 | - | - | 50.00 |
| Extras | (1 b, 3 lb, 6 w) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 44.4 overs) | 161 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-13, 2-42, 3-60, 4-63, 5-72, 6-75, 7-77, 8-130, 9-157, 10-161 (44.4 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| O'Connor | 6 | 2 | 17 | 1 | - | - | 36.00 | 2.83 |
| Tait | 7 | 0 | 31 | 1 | - | - | 42.00 | 4.43 |
| Astle | 10 | 0 | 29 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 2.90 |
| Vettori | 10 | 2 | 33 | 3 | - | - | 20.00 | 3.30 |
| Harris | 7.4 | 2 | 20 | 2 | - | - | 23.00 | 2.61 |
| Wiseman | 4 | 0 | 27 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.75 |