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| Venue | Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney on 1st January 1997 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Australia won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Pakistan won by 4 wickets |
| Points | Australia 0; Pakistan 2 |
| Umpires | RA Emerson, SG Randell |
| TV umpire | SJA Taufel |
| Referee | R Subba Row |
| Player of the Match | SK Warne |
| Australia innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| *MA Taylor | run out (Saqlain Mushtaq) | 11 | 16 | 20 | 1 | - | 68.75 |
| ME Waugh | c Moin Khan b Wasim Akram | 12 | 12 | 24 | 1 | - | 100.00 |
| SG Law | c Zahoor Elahi b Mushtaq Ahmed | 23 | 32 | 51 | - | - | 71.88 |
| SR Waugh | b Saqlain Mushtaq | 42 | 55 | 66 | 1 | - | 76.36 |
| MG Bevan | c and b Shahid Afridi | 27 | 42 | 60 | - | - | 64.29 |
| GS Blewett | b Aamer Sohail | 33 | 45 | 39 | 2 | - | 73.33 |
| TM Moody | run out (Saqlain Mushtaq) | 4 | 15 | 19 | - | - | 26.67 |
| +IA Healy | not out | 22 | 36 | 51 | - | - | 61.11 |
| PR Reiffel | c and b Aamer Sohail | 3 | 9 | 8 | - | - | 33.33 |
| SK Warne | c Ijaz Ahmed b Saqlain Mushtaq | 11 | 20 | 17 | - | - | 55.00 |
| GD McGrath | c Aamer Sohail b Saqlain Mushtaq | 1 | 4 | 8 | - | - | 25.00 |
| Extras | (7 lb, 1 nb, 2 w) | 10 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 187 minutes, 47.1 overs) | 199 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-24 (Taylor), 2-24 (ME Waugh), 3-75 (Law), 4-96 (SR Waugh), 5-154 (Blewett), 6-156 (Bevan), 7-165 (Moody), 8-173 (Reiffel), 9-191 (Warne), 10-199 (McGrath) | |||||||
| Pakistan bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Wasim Akram | 8 | 1 | 35 | 1 | - | 1 | 48.00 | 4.38 |
| Shahid Nazir | 7 | 0 | 31 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.43 |
| Aamer Sohail | 9 | 0 | 33 | 2 | 1 | - | 27.00 | 3.67 |
| Saqlain Mushtaq | 7.1 | 2 | 23 | 3 | - | - | 14.33 | 3.21 |
| Mushtaq Ahmed | 7 | 0 | 38 | 1 | - | - | 42.00 | 5.43 |
| Shahid Afridi | 9 | 0 | 32 | 1 | 1 | - | 54.00 | 3.56 |
| Pakistan innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| Aamer Sohail | lbw b Warne | 52 | 99 | 125 | 4 | - | 52.53 |
| Shahid Afridi | c Blewett b Warne | 34 | 27 | 39 | 6 | - | 125.93 |
| Zahoor Elahi | c and b Warne | 0 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| Ijaz Ahmed | c Bevan b Law | 58 | 83 | 118 | 3 | - | 69.88 |
| Inzamam-ul-Haq | b Warne | 8 | 10 | 20 | - | - | 80.00 |
| Mohammad Wasim | not out | 16 | 29 | 42 | 1 | - | 55.17 |
| *Wasim Akram | st Healy b Law | 11 | 12 | 14 | 2 | - | 91.67 |
| +Moin Khan | not out | 17 | 13 | 12 | 3 | - | 130.77 |
| Saqlain Mushtaq | did not bat | ||||||
| Mushtaq Ahmed | did not bat | ||||||
| Shahid Nazir | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (5 lb, 2 w) | 7 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, 189 minutes, 45.3 overs) | 203 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-54 (Shahid Afridi), 2-54 (Zahoor Elahi), 3-129 (Aamer Sohail), 4-153 (Inzamam-ul-Haq), 5-160 (Ijaz Ahmed), 6-180 (Wasim Akram) | |||||||
| Australia bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| McGrath | 10 | 1 | 41 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.10 |
| Reiffel | 3.3 | 2 | 18 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.14 |
| Blewett | 0.3 | 0 | 12 | 0 | - | - | - | 24.00 |
| Warne | 10 | 1 | 37 | 4 | - | - | 15.00 | 3.70 |
| Moody | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.00 |
| Bevan | 10 | 0 | 35 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 3.50 |
| ME Waugh | 5.3 | 1 | 27 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 4.91 |
| Law | 4 | 0 | 22 | 2 | - | - | 12.00 | 5.50 |