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| Venue | Centurion Park, Centurion on 25th January 1997 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Zimbabwe won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | South Africa won by 5 wickets |
| Points | South Africa 2; Zimbabwe 0 |
| Umpires | DF Becker, CJ Mitchley |
| TV umpire | SB Lambson |
| Referee | BN Jarman |
| Player of the Match | DJ Cullinan |
| Zimbabwe innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| GW Flower | c Hudson b Donald | 90 | 126 | 168 | 8 | - | 71.43 |
| AC Waller | c Cullinan b Pollock | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| *ADR Campbell | c sub (JH Kallis) b Cullinan | 15 | 35 | 62 | 1 | - | 42.86 |
| +A Flower | c Richardson b Cronje | 16 | 14 | 25 | 1 | - | 114.29 |
| CB Wishart | c Donald b Cronje | 8 | 10 | 10 | 1 | - | 80.00 |
| DL Houghton | c Cullinan b Klusener | 8 | 13 | 11 | 1 | - | 61.54 |
| GJ Whittall | c Richardson b Donald | 13 | 26 | 45 | - | - | 50.00 |
| PA Strang | b Donald | 39 | 41 | 41 | 5 | - | 95.12 |
| HH Streak | b Donald | 9 | 25 | 40 | - | - | 36.00 |
| EA Brandes | run out (Hudson) | 2 | 6 | 10 | - | - | 33.33 |
| JA Rennie | not out | 0 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| Extras | (4 lb, 1 nb, 6 w) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 48.5 overs) | 211 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-2 (Waller), 2-55 (Campbell), 3-85 (A Flower), 4-99 (Wishart), 5-110 (Houghton), 6-157 (Whittall), 7-171 (GW Flower), 8-203 (Strang), 9-211 (Brandes), 10-211 (Streak) | |||||||
| South Africa bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Pollock | 10 | 0 | 33 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 60.00 | 3.30 |
| Matthews | 0.1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | - | - | - | 24.00 |
| Cronje | 8.5 | 0 | 34 | 2 | 1 | - | 26.50 | 3.85 |
| Klusener | 9 | 0 | 38 | 1 | - | 2 | 54.00 | 4.22 |
| Donald | 9.5 | 0 | 37 | 4 | 1 | - | 14.75 | 3.76 |
| Symcox | 10 | 0 | 54 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 5.40 |
| Cullinan | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | - | - | 6.00 | 7.00 |
| South Africa innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| AC Hudson | lbw b Brandes | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| G Kirsten | c GW Flower b Rennie | 4 | 8 | 12 | 1 | - | 50.00 |
| L Klusener | b Rennie | 1 | 2 | 5 | - | - | 50.00 |
| DJ Cullinan | c A Flower b Streak | 73 | 108 | 149 | 3 | - | 67.59 |
| JN Rhodes | c Campbell b Streak | 16 | 20 | 31 | 1 | 1 | 80.00 |
| *WJ Cronje | not out | 87 | 128 | 145 | 5 | 1 | 67.97 |
| SM Pollock | not out | 20 | 16 | 39 | - | - | 125.00 |
| +DJ Richardson | did not bat | ||||||
| PL Symcox | did not bat | ||||||
| CR Matthews | did not bat | ||||||
| AA Donald | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 lb, 5 nb, 5 w) | 11 | |||||
| Total | (5 wickets, 46.1 overs) | 212 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Hudson), 2-5 (Klusener), 3-7 (Kirsten), 4-43 (Rhodes), 5-166 (Cullinan) | |||||||
| Zimbabwe bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Brandes | 8 | 2 | 31 | 1 | - | - | 48.00 | 3.88 |
| Rennie | 7 | 1 | 28 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 21.00 | 4.00 |
| Streak | 10 | 0 | 51 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 30.00 | 5.10 |
| Whittall | 8 | 0 | 42 | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | 5.25 |
| Strang | 10 | 0 | 43 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.30 |
| GW Flower | 3.1 | 0 | 16 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.05 |