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| Venue | Bellerive Oval, Hobart on 12th January 1988 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Sri Lanka won by 4 wickets |
| Points | New Zealand 0; Sri Lanka 2 |
| Umpires | MW Johnson, SG Randell |
| Player of the Match | RS Mahanama |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| KR Rutherford | b Ranatunga | 24 | 59 | 91 | 1 | - | 40.68 |
| JG Wright | c Madugalle b Ratnayeke | 8 | 39 | 47 | 1 | - | 20.51 |
| *JJ Crowe | run out | 0 | 2 | 7 | - | - | 0.00 |
| MD Crowe | c de Alwis b Ramanayake | 25 | 33 | 50 | 3 | - | 75.76 |
| DN Patel | c PA de Silva b Ranatunga | 0 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| TE Blain | not out | 49 | 96 | 107 | 4 | - | 51.04 |
| RJ Hadlee | c sub (HP Tillakaratne) b Ratnayeke | 52 | 68 | 77 | 2 | - | 76.47 |
| +IDS Smith | c Mahanama b Ratnayeke | 9 | 7 | 7 | 1 | - | 128.57 |
| SR Gillespie | not out | 9 | 5 | 10 | - | - | 180.00 |
| DK Morrison | did not bat | ||||||
| EJ Chatfield | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (9 lb, 3 nb, 11 w) | 23 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 199 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-28 (Wright), 2-32 (JJ Crowe), 3-67 (Rutherford), 4-67 (Patel), 5-70 (MD Crowe), 6-165 (Hadlee), 7-179 (Smith) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Ratnayeke | 9 | 1 | 33 | 3 | - | - | 18.00 | 3.67 |
| Labrooy | 10 | 0 | 43 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.30 |
| Ranatunga | 10 | 1 | 34 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 3.40 |
| Ramanayake | 10 | 2 | 30 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 3.00 |
| Gurusinha | 2 | 0 | 15 | 0 | - | - | - | 7.50 |
| EAR de Silva | 5 | 1 | 16 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.20 |
| PA de Silva | 4 | 0 | 19 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.75 |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| RS Mahanama | run out | 58 | 83 | 129 | 4 | 1 | 69.88 |
| DSBP Kuruppu | c MD Crowe b Morrison | 12 | 25 | 21 | 1 | - | 48.00 |
| AP Gurusinha | c Smith b Hadlee | 5 | 12 | 12 | - | - | 41.67 |
| PA de Silva | c Chatfield b Gillespie | 55 | 102 | 146 | 5 | 1 | 53.92 |
| A Ranatunga | c Morrison b Hadlee | 11 | 13 | 17 | 2 | - | 84.62 |
| *RS Madugalle | c Wright b Rutherford | 10 | 25 | 22 | - | - | 40.00 |
| JR Ratnayeke | not out | 21 | 25 | 26 | 2 | - | 84.00 |
| +RG de Alwis | not out | 7 | 5 | 15 | - | - | 140.00 |
| GF Labrooy | did not bat | ||||||
| EAR de Silva | did not bat | ||||||
| CPH Ramanayake | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 10 lb, 5 nb, 5 w) | 21 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, 46.3 overs) | 200 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-24 (Kuruppu), 2-33 (Gurusinha), 3-136 (Mahanama), 4-151 (Ranatunga), 5-167 (Madugalle), 6-185 (PA de Silva) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Chatfield | 10 | 1 | 30 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.00 |
| Hadlee | 10 | 1 | 22 | 2 | - | - | 30.00 | 2.20 |
| Morrison | 8.3 | 1 | 36 | 1 | - | - | 51.00 | 4.24 |
| Gillespie | 10 | 0 | 51 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 5.10 |
| Patel | 3 | 0 | 25 | 0 | - | - | - | 8.33 |
| Rutherford | 5 | 0 | 25 | 1 | - | - | 30.00 | 5.00 |