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| Venue | Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah on 12th November 1996 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Pakistan won by 8 wickets |
| Points | Pakistan 2; Sri Lanka 0 |
| Umpires | SK Bansal, G Sharp |
| TV umpire | ID Robinson |
| Referee | MJK Smith |
| Player of the Match | Saeed Anwar |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| ST Jayasuriya | c Moin Khan b Waqar Younis | 1 | 2 | - | - | 50.00 | |
| +RS Kaluwitharana | run out (Shahid Afridi) | 12 | 10 | - | - | 120.00 | |
| MS Atapattu | run out (Waqar Younis) | 58 | 100 | - | - | 58.00 | |
| PA de Silva | lbw b Wasim Akram | 0 | 5 | - | - | 0.00 | |
| HP Tillakaratne | c Moin Khan b Mushtaq Ahmed | 34 | 72 | - | - | 47.22 | |
| *A Ranatunga | c Wasim Akram b Waqar Younis | 27 | 63 | - | - | 42.86 | |
| WPUJC Vaas | c Shahid Afridi b Saleem Malik | 0 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 | |
| RS Mahanama | not out | 31 | 34 | 1 | - | 91.18 | |
| UDU Chandana | c Moin Khan b Saqlain Mushtaq | 0 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 | |
| KSC de Silva | c Aamer Sohail b Waqar Younis | 3 | 10 | - | - | 30.00 | |
| M Muralitharan | c Wasim Akram b Saqlain Mushtaq | 1 | 2 | - | - | 50.00 | |
| Extras | (10 lb, 1 nb, 11 w) | 22 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 50 overs) | 189 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-9 (Jayasuriya), 2-29 (Kaluwitharana), 3-30 (PA de Silva), 4-105 (Tillakaratne), 5-132 (Atapattu), 6-132 (Vaas), 7-166 (Ranatunga), 8-166 (Chandana), 9-182 (KSC de Silva), 10-189 (Muralitharan) | |||||||
| Pakistan bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Wasim Akram | 7 | 1 | 31 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 42.00 | 4.43 |
| Waqar Younis | 10 | 0 | 28 | 3 | 5 | - | 20.00 | 2.80 |
| Saqlain Mushtaq | 10 | 1 | 36 | 2 | 1 | - | 30.00 | 3.60 |
| Mushtaq Ahmed | 10 | 0 | 39 | 1 | 1 | - | 60.00 | 3.90 |
| Shahid Afridi | 9 | 0 | 34 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.78 |
| Saleem Malik | 4 | 0 | 11 | 1 | - | - | 24.00 | 2.75 |
| Pakistan innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| Saeed Anwar | not out | 112 | 125 | 7 | 1 | 89.60 | |
| Aamer Sohail | c KSC de Silva b Jayasuriya | 65 | 126 | 3 | - | 51.59 | |
| Hasan Raza | c Chandana b Muralitharan | 5 | 32 | - | - | 15.62 | |
| +Moin Khan | not out | 4 | 3 | 1 | - | 133.33 | |
| Ijaz Ahmed | did not bat | ||||||
| Saleem Malik | did not bat | ||||||
| Shahid Afridi | did not bat | ||||||
| *Wasim Akram | did not bat | ||||||
| Mushtaq Ahmed | did not bat | ||||||
| Saqlain Mushtaq | did not bat | ||||||
| Waqar Younis | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (3 nb, 4 w) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (2 wickets, 46.4 overs) | 193 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-173 (Aamer Sohail), 2-188 (Hasan Raza) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Vaas | 8 | 1 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | 2.88 |
| KSC de Silva | 10 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 3 | - | - | 3.60 |
| Muralitharan | 8.4 | 0 | 57 | 1 | - | - | 52.00 | 6.58 |
| PA de Silva | 6 | 0 | 18 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.00 |
| Jayasuriya | 9 | 1 | 35 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 3.89 |
| Chandana | 5 | 0 | 24 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.80 |