| a11271 o1343 |
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| Venue | Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo on 5th July 1998 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | New Zealand won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Sri Lanka won by 87 runs |
| Points | Sri Lanka 2; New Zealand 0 |
| Umpires | PT Manuel, TM Samarasinghe |
| TV umpire | KT Francis |
| Referee | CW Smith |
| Player of the Match | A Ranatunga |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| ST Jayasuriya | c Cairns b Vettori | 24 | 30 | 53 | 3 | - | 80.00 |
| +RS Kaluwitharana | c Astle b Harris | 54 | 64 | 75 | 8 | - | 84.38 |
| PA de Silva | c Fleming b Harris | 62 | 83 | 107 | 2 | 1 | 74.70 |
| *A Ranatunga | c Fleming b McMillan | 102 | 98 | 116 | 6 | 2 | 104.08 |
| UDU Chandana | not out | 27 | 25 | 35 | 2 | - | 108.00 |
| MS Atapattu | not out | 6 | 3 | 4 | 1 | - | 200.00 |
| RS Mahanama | did not bat | ||||||
| HDPK Dharmasena | did not bat | ||||||
| MRCN Bandaratilleke | did not bat | ||||||
| M Muralitharan | did not bat | ||||||
| ASA Perera | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (6 lb, 12 w) | 18 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 293 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-69 (Jayasuriya, 12.2 ov), 2-92 (Kaluwitharana, 17.3 ov), 3-224 (de Silva, 40.4 ov), 4-282 (Ranatunga, 48.5 ov) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Cairns | 7 | 0 | 52 | 0 | 4 | - | - | 7.43 |
| Nash | 5 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | 6.00 |
| Vettori | 10 | 0 | 53 | 1 | 1 | - | 60.00 | 5.30 |
| Harris | 10 | 1 | 44 | 2 | 1 | - | 30.00 | 4.40 |
| Wiseman | 6 | 0 | 32 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.33 |
| McMillan | 7 | 0 | 38 | 1 | - | - | 42.00 | 5.43 |
| Astle | 5 | 0 | 38 | 0 | - | - | - | 7.60 |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| BA Young | c Mahanama b Perera | 3 | 9 | 13 | - | - | 33.33 |
| NJ Astle | c de Silva b Chandana | 74 | 76 | 113 | 7 | 3 | 97.37 |
| *SP Fleming | c Dharmasena b Bandaratilleke | 20 | 25 | 42 | 3 | - | 80.00 |
| CD McMillan | c Muralitharan b Bandaratilleke | 5 | 4 | 6 | 1 | - | 125.00 |
| MJ Horne | c Kaluwitharana b Muralitharan | 4 | 5 | 9 | 1 | - | 80.00 |
| CL Cairns | c Kaluwitharana b Jayasuriya | 28 | 33 | 40 | - | 2 | 84.85 |
| +AC Parore | not out | 28 | 43 | 59 | - | - | 65.12 |
| CZ Harris | b Jayasuriya | 2 | 5 | 4 | - | - | 40.00 |
| DJ Nash | c Chandana b Muralitharan | 3 | 12 | 10 | - | - | 25.00 |
| DL Vettori | b Jayasuriya | 0 | 3 | 4 | - | - | 0.00 |
| PJ Wiseman | c Dharmasena b Chandana | 16 | 22 | 26 | 1 | 1 | 72.73 |
| Extras | (10 lb, 1 nb, 12 w) | 23 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 39.1 overs) | 206 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-11 (Young, 2.5 ov), 2-78 (Fleming, 11.4 ov), 3-86 (McMillan, 13.1 ov), 4-106 (Horne, 16.3 ov), 5-152 (Astle, 24.6 ov), 6-154 (Cairns, 25.4 ov), 7-163 (Harris, 27.4 ov), 8-172 (Nash, 30.4 ov), 9-176 (Vettori, 31.4 ov), 10-206 (Wiseman, 39.1 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Perera | 4 | 0 | 34 | 1 | 2 | - | 24.00 | 8.50 |
| Bandaratilleke | 9 | 0 | 34 | 2 | 3 | - | 27.00 | 3.78 |
| Dharmasena | 2 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 12.00 |
| Muralitharan | 10 | 0 | 50 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 30.00 | 5.00 |
| Jayasuriya | 8 | 0 | 28 | 3 | 3 | - | 16.00 | 3.50 |
| Chandana | 6.1 | 0 | 26 | 2 | - | 1 | 18.50 | 4.22 |
Notes
--> RS Kaluwitharana passed 1500 runs in List A matches when he reached 43
--> PA de Silva passed 7500 runs in ODI matches when he reached 62
--> UDU Chandana passed his previous highest score of 26 in ODI matches
--> M Muralitharan reached 150 wickets in List A matches when he dismissed DJ Nash, his 2nd wicket in the New Zealand innings
In order to qualify for the final against India, New Zealand needed to score the 294 required to win in 41.4 overs or less.
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