| Sri Lanka 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| RS Mahanama | c †James b Jarvis | 8 | 59 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 24.24 | |
| AP Gurusinha | c A Flower b Whittall | 128 | 607 | 461 | 14 | 1 | 27.76 | |
| S Ranatunga | c †James b Whittall | 118 | 467 | 342 | 17 | 0 | 34.50 | |
| PA de Silva | c & b Jarvis | 19 | 32 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 111.76 | |
| A Ranatunga* | c sub b Streak | 62 | 160 | 102 | 6 | 0 | 60.78 | |
| HP Tillakaratne | c †James b Whittall | 1 | 15 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 5.88 | |
| PB Dassanayake† | lbw b Whittall | 0 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| WPUJC Vaas | lbw b Streak | 3 | 72 | 68 | 0 | 0 | 4.41 | |
| GP Wickramasinghe | c †James b Streak | 15 | 36 | 30 | 2 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| M Muralitharan | c & b Streak | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| KR Pushpakumara | not out | 6 | 16 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 46.15 | |
| Extras | (lb 19, w 1, nb 3) | 23 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 179.5 overs) | 383 | (2.12 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| DH Brain | 5 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 1.80 | |||
| HH Streak | 42.5 | 14 | 79 | 4 | 1.84 | |||
| MP Jarvis | 41 | 18 | 76 | 2 | 1.85 | |||
| GJ Whittall | 33 | 8 | 70 | 4 | 2.12 | |||
| SG Peall | 50 | 11 | 114 | 0 | 2.28 | |||
| GW Flower | 8 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 2.00 |
| Zimbabwe 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| GW Flower | c †Dassanayake b Vaas | 41 | 195 | 146 | 4 | 0 | 28.08 | |
| MH Dekker | c sub b Muralitharan | 40 | 200 | 145 | 3 | 0 | 27.58 | |
| ADR Campbell | c Tillakaratne b Wickramasinghe | 44 | 146 | 121 | 4 | 0 | 36.36 | |
| DL Houghton | c †Dassanayake b Vaas | 58 | 275 | 181 | 3 | 0 | 32.04 | |
| A Flower* | c †Dassanayake b Vaas | 26 | 96 | 75 | 3 | 0 | 34.66 | |
| GJ Whittall | c †Dassanayake b Pushpakumara | 4 | 20 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 23.52 | |
| WR James† | c †Dassanayake b Vaas | 18 | 38 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| HH Streak | c Gurusinha b Muralitharan | 8 | 47 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 24.24 | |
| SG Peall | not out | 9 | 46 | 31 | 2 | 0 | 29.03 | |
| DH Brain | not out | 6 | 21 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 40.00 | |
| Extras | (b 10, lb 18, w 1, nb 36) | 65 | ||||||
| Total | (8 wickets; 123 overs) | 319 | (2.59 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat MP Jarvis |
| Fall of wickets1-113 (GW Flower), 2-115 (Dekker), 3-202 (Campbell), 4-259 (A Flower), 5-264 (Whittall), 6-274 (Houghton), 7-294 (James), 8-307 (Streak) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| GP Wickramasinghe | 26 | 4 | 60 | 1 | 2.30 | (18nb, 1w) | ||
| WPUJC Vaas | 37 | 11 | 74 | 4 | 2.00 | (5nb) | ||
| KR Pushpakumara | 20 | 0 | 68 | 1 | 3.40 | (7nb) | ||
| PA de Silva | 6 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 3.33 | (1nb) | ||
| M Muralitharan | 32 | 7 | 60 | 2 | 1.87 | (5nb) | ||
| A Ranatunga | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 4.50 |
| Match details |
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Toss Sri Lanka, who chose to bat Series 3-match series level 0-0 |
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Umpires
LH Barker (West Indies) and ID Robinson TV umpire RC Strang Match referee PL van der Merwe (South Africa) |
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Close of play 11 Oct day 1 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 157/1 (AP Gurusinha 67*, S Ranatunga 65*) 12 Oct day 2 - Sri Lanka 1st innings 383 13 Oct day 3 - Zimbabwe 1st innings 172/2 (ADR Campbell 27*, DL Houghton 22*) 14 Oct rest day 15 Oct day 4 - Zimbabwe 1st innings 319/8 (SG Peall 9*, DH Brain 6*, 123 ov) 16 Oct day 5 - no play |
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