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| Venue | MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Madras on 11th March 1996 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | New Zealand won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Australia won by 6 wickets |
| Umpires | CJ Mitchley, S Venkataraghavan |
| TV umpire | Khizer Hayat |
| Referee | MAK Pataudi |
| Player of the Match | ME Waugh |
| New Zealand innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| CM Spearman | c Healy b Reiffel | 12 | 12 | 16 | 3 | - | 100.00 |
| NJ Astle | c Healy b Fleming | 1 | 6 | 10 | - | - | 16.67 |
| *+LK Germon | c Fleming b McGrath | 89 | 96 | 149 | 9 | 1 | 92.71 |
| SP Fleming | c SR Waugh b McGrath | 8 | 18 | 18 | - | - | 44.44 |
| CZ Harris | c Reiffel b Warne | 130 | 124 | 162 | 13 | 4 | 104.84 |
| RG Twose | b Bevan | 4 | 12 | 14 | - | - | 33.33 |
| CL Cairns | c Reiffel b ME Waugh | 4 | 9 | 6 | - | - | 44.44 |
| AC Parore | lbw b Warne | 11 | 13 | 16 | - | - | 84.62 |
| SA Thomson | run out | 11 | 10 | 13 | 1 | - | 110.00 |
| DN Patel | not out | 3 | 4 | 3 | - | - | 75.00 |
| DJ Nash | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (6 lb, 4 nb, 3 w) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (9 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 286 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-15 (Astle), 2-16 (Spearman), 3-44 (Fleming), 4-212 (Germon), 5-227 (Twose), 6-240 (Cairns), 7-259 (Parore), 8-282 (Harris), 9-286 (Thomson) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Reiffel | 4 | 0 | 38 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 24.00 | 9.50 |
| Fleming | 5 | 1 | 20 | 1 | - | - | 30.00 | 4.00 |
| McGrath | 9 | 2 | 50 | 2 | - | 1 | 27.00 | 5.56 |
| ME Waugh | 8 | 0 | 43 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 5.38 |
| Warne | 10 | 0 | 52 | 2 | 1 | - | 30.00 | 5.20 |
| Bevan | 10 | 0 | 52 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 60.00 | 5.20 |
| SR Waugh | 4 | 0 | 25 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.25 |
| Australia innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| *MA Taylor | c Germon b Patel | 10 | 24 | 23 | 1 | - | 41.67 |
| ME Waugh | c Parore b Nash | 110 | 112 | 156 | 6 | 2 | 98.21 |
| RT Ponting | c sub (RJ Kennedy) b Thomson | 31 | 43 | 32 | 4 | - | 72.09 |
| SK Warne | lbw b Astle | 24 | 14 | 40 | 1 | 2 | 171.43 |
| SR Waugh | not out | 59 | 68 | 99 | 5 | - | 86.76 |
| SG Law | not out | 42 | 30 | 47 | 3 | 1 | 140.00 |
| MG Bevan | did not bat | ||||||
| +IA Healy | did not bat | ||||||
| PR Reiffel | did not bat | ||||||
| DW Fleming | did not bat | ||||||
| GD McGrath | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 b, 6 lb, 3 nb, 3 w) | 13 | |||||
| Total | (4 wickets, 47.5 overs) | 289 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-19 (Taylor), 2-84 (Ponting), 3-127 (Warne), 4-213 (ME Waugh) | |||||||
| New Zealand bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Nash | 9 | 1 | 44 | 1 | 1 | - | 54.00 | 4.89 |
| Patel | 8 | 0 | 45 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 5.62 |
| Cairns | 6.5 | 0 | 51 | 0 | - | 1 | - | 7.46 |
| Harris | 10 | 0 | 41 | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | 4.10 |
| Thomson | 8 | 0 | 57 | 1 | 1 | - | 48.00 | 7.12 |
| Astle | 3 | 0 | 21 | 1 | - | - | 18.00 | 7.00 |
| Twose | 3 | 0 | 23 | 0 | - | - | - | 7.67 |