- ODI no. 1208 | 1997 season
- Played at Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad, Deccan (neutral venue)
- 20 May 1997 - day/night (50-over match)
| Sri Lanka innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| ST Jayasuriya | c Cairns b O'Connor | 4 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| MS Atapattu | run out (Astle) | 41 | 87 | 57 | 6 | 0 | 71.92 | |
| PA de Silva | b O'Connor | 9 | 13 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 64.28 | |
| A Ranatunga* | c †Parore b Larsen | 15 | 38 | 30 | 2 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| HP Tillakaratne | b Astle | 29 | 59 | 58 | 3 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| RS Mahanama | c McMillan b O'Connor | 41 | 76 | 69 | 2 | 0 | 59.42 | |
| RS Kaluwitharana† | c Cairns b Astle | 44 | 59 | 36 | 5 | 0 | 122.22 | |
| HDPK Dharmasena | run out (Horne) | 6 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 120.00 | |
| WPUJC Vaas | b Larsen | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| M Muralitharan | not out | 9 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 81.81 | |
| KSC de Silva | lbw b Larsen | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (b 5, lb 6, w 3, nb 2) | 16 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 48.3 overs) | 214 | (4.41 runs per over) | |||||
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| SB O'Connor | 9 | 0 | 44 | 3 | 4.88 | (1nb) | ||
| DN Patel | 10 | 0 | 37 | 0 | 3.70 | (2nb) | ||
| GR Larsen | 9.3 | 1 | 43 | 3 | 4.52 | (2w) | ||
| CZ Harris | 10 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 3.00 | |||
| NJ Astle | 8 | 1 | 37 | 2 | 4.62 | (1w) | ||
| CL Cairns | 2 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 6.00 |
| New Zealand innings (target: 215 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| BA Young | c †Kaluwitharana b KSC de Silva | 22 | 38 | 27 | 3 | 0 | 81.48 | |
| NJ Astle | c †Kaluwitharana b Vaas | 9 | 31 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| MJ Horne | st †Kaluwitharana b Jayasuriya | 41 | 97 | 73 | 2 | 2 | 56.16 | |
| SP Fleming* | lbw b PA de Silva | 24 | 80 | 53 | 2 | 0 | 45.28 | |
| CL Cairns | c PA de Silva b Jayasuriya | 6 | 31 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 31.57 | |
| CD McMillan | st †Kaluwitharana b PA de Silva | 10 | 45 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 41.66 | |
| CZ Harris | not out | 26 | 47 | 26 | 2 | 0 | 100.00 | |
| AC Parore† | c Tillakaratne b Dharmasena | 9 | 18 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 69.23 | |
| DN Patel | c Muralitharan b Dharmasena | 5 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 62.50 | |
| GR Larsen | b Muralitharan | 1 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| SB O'Connor | c Tillakaratne b Muralitharan | 0 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (b 1, lb 5, w 2, nb 1) | 9 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 44.5 overs) | 162 | (3.61 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-29 (Astle), 2-31 (Young), 3-97 (Fleming), 4-103 (Horne), 5-120 (Cairns), 6-120 (McMillan), 7-140 (Parore), 8-147 (Patel), 9-152 (Larsen), 10-162 (O'Connor) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| WPUJC Vaas | 6 | 2 | 23 | 1 | 3.83 | |||
| KSC de Silva | 6 | 2 | 13 | 1 | 2.16 | |||
| M Muralitharan | 9.5 | 1 | 49 | 2 | 4.98 | (1nb, 2w) | ||
| HDPK Dharmasena | 6 | 0 | 28 | 2 | 4.66 | (1nb) | ||
| PA de Silva | 10 | 1 | 22 | 2 | 2.20 | |||
| ST Jayasuriya | 7 | 1 | 21 | 2 | 3.00 |
| Match details |
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Toss Sri Lanka, who chose to bat Points Sri Lanka 2, New Zealand 0 |
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ODI debuts
CD McMillan and
SB O'Connor
(New Zealand) Player of the match RS Kaluwitharana (Sri Lanka) |
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Umpires
SK Bansal and Javed Akhtar (Pakistan) TV umpire S Venkataraghavan Match referee Hanumant Singh |
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