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| Venue | R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo on 18th July 2001 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Sri Lanka won by 16 runs |
| Points | Sri Lanka 2; New Zealand 0 |
| Umpires | LV Jayasundara, DN Pathirana |
| TV umpire | PT Manuel |
| Referee | CW Smith |
| Player of the Match | ST Jayasuriya |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| *ST Jayasuriya | c Oram b Vettori | 80 | 108 | 160 | 8 | - | 74.07 |
| DA Gunawardene | c Vettori b Tuffey | 13 | 22 | 31 | 2 | - | 59.09 |
| MS Atapattu | c Harris b Vettori | 22 | 42 | 65 | 1 | - | 52.38 |
| DPMD Jayawardene | c McMillan b Harris | 14 | 24 | 23 | 1 | - | 58.33 |
| RP Arnold | lbw b Harris | 9 | 19 | 18 | - | - | 47.37 |
| +RS Kaluwitharana | run out (Vincent) | 14 | 31 | 38 | - | - | 45.16 |
| HDPK Dharmasena | run out (Harris) | 9 | 16 | 22 | - | - | 56.25 |
| ASA Perera | c Sinclair b McMillan | 19 | 20 | 33 | 3 | - | 95.00 |
| WPUJC Vaas | c Fleming b Mills | 4 | 8 | 9 | - | - | 50.00 |
| M Muralitharan | c Vincent b Oram | 6 | 10 | 15 | - | - | 60.00 |
| CRD Fernando | not out | 1 | 3 | 3 | - | - | 33.33 |
| Extras | (1 b, 7 lb, 12 nb, 9 w) | 29 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 213 minutes, 48.5 overs) | 220 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-39 (Gunawardene, 6.5 ov), 2-95 (Atapattu, 21.1 ov), 3-124 (Jayawardene, 28.1 ov), 4-145 (Arnold, 32.3 ov), 5-170 (Jayasuriya, 37.2 ov), 6-187 (Kaluwitharana, 41.5 ov), 7-187 (Dharmasena, 42.2 ov), 8-197 (Vaas, 44.2 ov), 9-217 (Muralitharan, 47.6 ov), 10-220 (Perera, 48.5 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Tuffey | 8 | 1 | 40 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 48.00 | 5.00 |
| Mills | 10 | 1 | 41 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 60.00 | 4.10 |
| Oram | 9 | 0 | 41 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 54.00 | 4.56 |
| Vettori | 10 | 0 | 42 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 30.00 | 4.20 |
| Harris | 10 | 0 | 42 | 2 | - | 1 | 30.00 | 4.20 |
| Astle | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.00 |
| McMillan | 0.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 5.00 | 2.40 |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| MS Sinclair | lbw b Perera | 1 | 3 | 6 | - | - | 33.33 |
| NJ Astle | b Vaas | 2 | 4 | 3 | - | - | 50.00 |
| *SP Fleming | c Perera b Fernando | 21 | 24 | 35 | 4 | - | 87.50 |
| CD McMillan | c Kaluwitharana b Fernando | 20 | 26 | 52 | 3 | - | 76.92 |
| L Vincent | b Muralitharan | 25 | 47 | 64 | 2 | - | 53.19 |
| CZ Harris | c Perera b Jayasuriya | 48 | 93 | 103 | 6 | - | 51.61 |
| +AC Parore | not out | 51 | 83 | 94 | 1 | 1 | 61.45 |
| JDP Oram | run out (Muralitharan) | 6 | 7 | 18 | - | - | 85.71 |
| DL Vettori | c Kaluwitharana b Muralitharan | 3 | 3 | 2 | - | - | 100.00 |
| KD Mills | b Dharmasena | 2 | 2 | 6 | - | - | 100.00 |
| DR Tuffey | not out | 6 | 5 | 7 | 1 | - | 120.00 |
| Extras | (10 lb, 3 nb, 6 w) | 19 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, innings closed, 199 minutes, 49 overs) | 204 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-3 (Astle, 0.6 ov), 2-3 (Sinclair, 1.1 ov), 3-43 (Fleming, 7.5 ov), 4-61 (McMillan, 11.6 ov), 5-100 (Vincent, 22.1 ov), 6-157 (Harris, 40.4 ov), 7-170 (Oram, 44.6 ov), 8-174 (Vettori, 45.4 ov), 9-186 (Mills, 46.6 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Vaas | 7 | 0 | 37 | 1 | - | 1 | 42.00 | 5.29 |
| Perera | 3 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 4 | - | 18.00 | 6.00 |
| Fernando | 6 | 0 | 28 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 18.00 | 4.67 |
| Muralitharan | 10 | 1 | 36 | 2 | 1 | - | 30.00 | 3.60 |
| Dharmasena | 10 | 1 | 29 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 2.90 |
| Jayasuriya | 10 | 0 | 32 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 3.20 |
| Arnold | 3 | 0 | 14 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.67 |