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| Venue | Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah on 11th December 1997 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | India won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | England won by 7 runs |
| Points | England 2; India 0 |
| Umpires | SA Bucknor, KT Francis |
| TV umpire | CJ Mitchley |
| Referee | PJP Burge |
| Player of the Match | AJ Stewart |
| England innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| AD Brown | c Ganguly b Kuruvilla | 18 | 25 | 35 | 2 | - | 72.00 |
| +AJ Stewart | c Azharuddin b Kumble | 116 | 111 | 156 | 9 | 1 | 104.50 |
| NV Knight | c Kumble b Chauhan | 42 | 60 | 67 | 2 | 1 | 70.00 |
| GA Hick | b Kuruvilla | 32 | 42 | 47 | 2 | 1 | 76.19 |
| *AJ Hollioake | b Kuruvilla | 4 | 6 | 10 | - | - | 66.67 |
| MA Ealham | run out (Tendulkar) | 9 | 16 | 31 | - | - | 56.25 |
| GP Thorpe | run out (Jadeja) | 3 | 4 | 4 | - | - | 75.00 |
| MV Fleming | c Karim b Srinath | 9 | 16 | 13 | - | - | 56.25 |
| DR Brown | c Tendulkar b Srinath | 6 | 11 | 18 | - | - | 54.55 |
| RDB Croft | c Kuruvilla b Srinath | 6 | 8 | 7 | 1 | - | 75.00 |
| DW Headley | not out | 1 | 1 | 3 | - | - | 100.00 |
| Extras | (3 lb, 1 w) | 4 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 49.5 overs) | 250 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-42 (AD Brown), 2-131 (Knight), 3-209 (Hick), 4-211 (Stewart), 5-215 (Hollioake), 6-218 (Thorpe), 7-232 (Fleming), 8-237 (Ealham), 9-248 (Croft), 10-250 (DR Brown) | |||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Srinath | 8.5 | 0 | 37 | 3 | - | - | 17.67 | 4.19 |
| Kuruvilla | 10 | 0 | 50 | 3 | 1 | - | 20.00 | 5.00 |
| Kumble | 10 | 0 | 53 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 5.30 |
| Singh | 6 | 0 | 34 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.67 |
| Ganguly | 2 | 0 | 14 | 0 | - | 1 | - | 7.00 |
| Chauhan | 9 | 0 | 35 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 3.89 |
| Tendulkar | 4 | 0 | 24 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.00 |
| India innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| +SS Karim | c Croft b Headley | 29 | 34 | 47 | 5 | - | 85.29 |
| SC Ganguly | b Ealham | 29 | 41 | 54 | 4 | - | 70.73 |
| NS Sidhu | c Hollioake b Ealham | 3 | 13 | 12 | - | - | 23.08 |
| *SR Tendulkar | st Stewart b Fleming | 91 | 87 | 146 | 4 | 2 | 104.60 |
| M Azharuddin | c Headley b Hollioake | 3 | 19 | 22 | - | - | 15.79 |
| AD Jadeja | c Thorpe b Fleming | 50 | 69 | 76 | 1 | - | 72.46 |
| RR Singh | lbw b Fleming | 12 | 14 | 21 | - | 1 | 85.71 |
| A Kumble | run out (Knight->Stewart) | 2 | 3 | 7 | - | - | 66.67 |
| RK Chauhan | b Fleming | 12 | 12 | 22 | - | - | 100.00 |
| J Srinath | b Headley | 3 | 7 | 6 | - | - | 42.86 |
| A Kuruvilla | not out | 1 | 1 | 4 | - | - | 100.00 |
| Extras | (3 lb, 2 nb, 3 w) | 8 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 49.3 overs) | 243 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-60 (Karim), 2-64 (Ganguly), 3-65 (Sidhu), 4-74 (Azharuddin), 5-182 (Jadeja), 6-207 (Singh), 7-221 (Kumble), 8-232 (Tendulkar), 9-237 (Srinath), 10-243 (Chauhan) | |||||||
| England bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| DR Brown | 7 | 0 | 44 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 6.29 |
| Headley | 9 | 0 | 38 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 27.00 | 4.22 |
| Ealham | 10 | 0 | 43 | 2 | 1 | - | 30.00 | 4.30 |
| Hollioake | 9 | 1 | 38 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 4.22 |
| Croft | 5 | 0 | 32 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.40 |
| Fleming | 9.3 | 0 | 45 | 4 | - | - | 14.25 | 4.74 |