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| Venue | Queenstown Events Centre, Queenstown on 31st December 2006 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | New Zealand won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | New Zealand won by 1 wicket |
| Umpires | GAV Baxter, SJ Davis (Australia) |
| TV umpire | AL Hill |
| Referee | J Srinath (India) |
| Reserve Umpire | DJ Walker |
| Player of the Match | JEC Franklin |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| WU Tharanga | c Taylor b Mason | 23 | 29 | 51 | 3 | - | 79.31 |
| ST Jayasuriya | b Mason | 1 | 8 | 7 | - | - | 12.50 |
| *DPMD Jayawardene | b Gillespie | 4 | 8 | 11 | 1 | - | 50.00 |
| +KC Sangakkara | run out (Adams) | 89 | 122 | 155 | 10 | - | 72.95 |
| MS Atapattu | b Vettori | 22 | 35 | 53 | 2 | - | 62.86 |
| LPC Silva | c HJH Marshall b Franklin | 31 | 53 | 74 | 2 | - | 58.49 |
| TM Dilshan | c Taylor b Gillespie | 8 | 15 | 22 | - | - | 53.33 |
| MF Maharoof | not out | 29 | 24 | 32 | 2 | 1 | 120.83 |
| WPUJC Vaas | not out | 9 | 7 | 14 | 1 | - | 128.57 |
| SL Malinga | did not bat | ||||||
| M Muralitharan | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (3 lb, 1 nb, 4 w) | 8 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, innings closed, 214 minutes, 50 overs) | 224 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-4 (Jayasuriya, 1.4 ov), 2-14 (Jayawardene, 4.2 ov), 3-50 (Tharanga, 11.4 ov), 4-102 (Atapattu, 24.2 ov), 5-176 (Sangakkara, 41.4 ov), 6-177 (Silva, 42.5 ov), 7-192 (Dilshan, 46.6 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Gillespie | 10 | 0 | 46 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 30.00 | 4.60 |
| Mason | 10 | 1 | 50 | 2 | 1 | - | 30.00 | 5.00 |
| Franklin | 10 | 0 | 46 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 4.60 |
| Adams | 10 | 0 | 42 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.20 |
| Vettori | 10 | 0 | 37 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 3.70 |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| +BB McCullum | lbw b Maharoof | 32 | 24 | 40 | 5 | 1 | 133.33 |
| JAH Marshall | run out (Malinga) | 50 | 80 | 108 | 6 | - | 62.50 |
| LRPL Taylor | run out (Silva->Sangakkara) | 15 | 26 | 28 | 2 | - | 57.69 |
| PG Fulton | lbw b Muralitharan | 2 | 9 | 9 | - | - | 22.22 |
| *DL Vettori | b Malinga | 19 | 33 | 49 | 1 | - | 57.58 |
| CD McMillan | c Jayawardene b Muralitharan | 2 | 5 | 5 | - | - | 40.00 |
| HJH Marshall | c and b Dilshan | 29 | 35 | 43 | - | 1 | 82.86 |
| JEC Franklin | not out | 45 | 46 | 83 | 3 | - | 97.83 |
| AR Adams | lbw b Muralitharan | 6 | 15 | 16 | - | - | 40.00 |
| MR Gillespie | c Maharoof b Vaas | 11 | 23 | 29 | - | - | 47.83 |
| MJ Mason | not out | 4 | 6 | 7 | 1 | - | 66.67 |
| Extras | (5 lb, 4 nb, 4 w) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, innings closed, 213 minutes, 50 overs) | 228 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-57 (McCullum, 9.1 ov), 2-87 (Taylor, 16.2 ov), 3-91 (Fulton, 18.5 ov), 4-121 (JAH Marshall, 25.3 ov), 5-126 (McMillan, 26.6 ov), 6-141 (Vettori, 30.3 ov), 7-175 (HJH Marshall, 37.5 ov), 8-194 (Adams, 42.4 ov), 9-223 (Gillespie, 48.4 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Vaas | 10 | 0 | 46 | 1 | 1 | - | 60.00 | 4.60 |
| Malinga | 10 | 0 | 53 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 60.00 | 5.30 |
| Maharoof | 8 | 0 | 40 | 1 | - | 1 | 48.00 | 5.00 |
| Muralitharan | 10 | 1 | 31 | 3 | 1 | - | 20.00 | 3.10 |
| Jayasuriya | 5 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 5.60 |
| Dilshan | 7 | 0 | 25 | 1 | - | - | 42.00 | 3.57 |