| a10331 o1174 |
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| Venue | Centurion Park, Centurion on 7th February 1997 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | India won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Zimbabwe won by 3 wickets (Clark curves method) |
| Points | India 0; Zimbabwe 2 |
| Umpires | DF Becker, CJ Mitchley |
| TV umpire | SB Lambson |
| Referee | BN Jarman |
| Player of the Match | CN Evans, PA Strang |
| India innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| SC Ganguly | c Strang b Whittall | 31 | 44 | 83 | 3 | - | 70.45 |
| RS Dravid | c A Flower b Rennie | 12 | 30 | 30 | 1 | - | 40.00 |
| J Srinath | c Evans b Streak | 9 | 14 | 23 | - | 1 | 64.29 |
| *SR Tendulkar | c Waller b Campbell | 41 | 56 | 81 | 1 | 1 | 73.21 |
| M Azharuddin | st A Flower b Strang | 44 | 67 | 70 | 1 | 1 | 65.67 |
| AD Jadeja | run out (Streak) | 36 | 40 | 49 | 2 | 1 | 90.00 |
| RR Singh | run out (Brandes) | 11 | 17 | 34 | - | - | 64.71 |
| +SS Karim | run out (Campbell) | 10 | 15 | 23 | 1 | - | 66.67 |
| A Kumble | c A Flower b Brandes | 7 | 9 | 14 | - | - | 77.78 |
| SA Ankola | c Whittall b Brandes | 0 | 2 | 3 | - | - | 0.00 |
| BKV Prasad | not out | 0 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| Extras | (6 lb, 9 w) | 15 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 48.4 overs) | 216 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-25 (Dravid), 2-46 (Srinath), 3-67 (Ganguly), 4-137 (Tendulkar), 5-161 (Azharuddin), 6-195 (Jadeja), 7-198 (Singh), 8-216 (Kumble), 9-216 (Karim), 10-216 (Ankola) | |||||||
| Zimbabwe bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Brandes | 9.4 | 0 | 44 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 29.00 | 4.55 |
| Rennie | 8 | 1 | 26 | 1 | 1 | - | 48.00 | 3.25 |
| Streak | 10 | 2 | 42 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 60.00 | 4.20 |
| Whittall | 5 | 0 | 20 | 1 | 2 | - | 30.00 | 4.00 |
| Strang | 9 | 0 | 43 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 4.78 |
| Evans | 2 | 0 | 13 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.50 |
| Campbell | 2 | 0 | 8 | 1 | - | - | 12.00 | 4.00 |
| GW Flower | 3 | 0 | 14 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.67 |
| Zimbabwe innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| AC Waller | c Ganguly b Prasad | 2 | 8 | 16 | - | - | 25.00 |
| GW Flower | b Ankola | 28 | 32 | 48 | 4 | - | 87.50 |
| +A Flower | c Karim b Singh | 9 | 20 | 47 | - | - | 45.00 |
| GJ Whittall | run out (Ganguly) | 4 | 10 | 13 | 1 | - | 40.00 |
| *ADR Campbell | run out (Azharuddin) | 10 | 21 | 40 | - | - | 47.62 |
| DL Houghton | c Kumble b Singh | 13 | 20 | 30 | - | - | 65.00 |
| CN Evans | c Azharuddin b Kumble | 43 | 47 | 69 | 1 | 3 | 91.49 |
| PA Strang | not out | 31 | 42 | 78 | 1 | - | 73.81 |
| HH Streak | not out | 11 | 7 | 15 | 1 | - | 157.14 |
| EA Brandes | did not bat | ||||||
| JA Rennie | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (8 lb, 5 nb, 7 w) | 20 | |||||
| Total | (7 wickets, 33.4 overs) | 171 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-16 (Waller), 2-46 (GW Flower), 3-53 (Whittall), 4-55 (A Flower), 5-77 (Houghton), 6-78 (Campbell), 7-149 (Evans) | |||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Srinath | 7 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 3 | 2 | - | 4.57 |
| Prasad | 6.4 | 0 | 39 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 40.00 | 5.85 |
| Kumble | 7 | 0 | 31 | 1 | - | - | 42.00 | 4.43 |
| Ankola | 5 | 0 | 32 | 1 | 2 | - | 30.00 | 6.40 |
| Singh | 7 | 1 | 18 | 2 | - | 1 | 21.00 | 2.57 |
| Tendulkar | 1 | 0 | 11 | 0 | - | - | - | 11.00 |