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| Venue | Uyanwatte Stadium, Matara on 2nd, 4th, 5th January 1998 (3-day match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Zimbabweans won the toss and decided to bat |
| Result | Match drawn |
| Umpires | DAS Dissanayake, EKG Wijewardene |
| Scorers | A Fernando, G Wijewardene |
| Reserve Umpire | RMS Sirisoma |
| Close of play day 1 | Zimbabweans (1) 311/6 (A Flower 101*, Streak 7*) |
| Close of play day 2 | Sri Lanka Board President's XI (1) 240/5 (Nawaz 91*, WMSM Perera 1*) |
| Zimbabweans first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| GJ Rennie | c WMSM Perera b Lankatilleke | 2 | 16 | 19 | - | - | |
| GW Flower | b Samaraweera | 58 | 78 | 89 | 9 | 1 | |
| MW Goodwin | b Samaraweera | 52 | 99 | 157 | 3 | 1 | |
| GJ Whittall | c Dalugoda b Samaraweera | 11 | 37 | 36 | - | - | |
| +A Flower | not out | 101 | 229 | 268 | 9 | - | |
| *ADR Campbell | c de Saram b Arnold | 39 | 72 | 92 | 6 | - | |
| CB Wishart | c de Saram b Samaraweera | 13 | 41 | 61 | - | - | |
| HH Streak | not out | 7 | 43 | 58 | - | - | |
| AR Whittall | did not bat | ||||||
| AG Huckle | did not bat | ||||||
| M Mbangwa | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 lb, 17 nb, 7 w) | 28 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets, declared, 99 overs) | 311 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-7 (Rennie, 3.3 ov), 2-88 (GW Flower, 20.1 ov), 3-126 (GJ Whittall, 30.6 ov), 4-172 (Goodwin, 43.3 ov), 5-236 (Campbell, 68.4 ov), 6-288 (Wishart, 85.4 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka Board President's XI bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| ASA Perera | 14 | 2 | 46 | 0 | 3 | 3 | |
| Lankatilleke | 12 | 2 | 41 | 1 | 2 | - | |
| Dalugoda | 31 | 6 | 93 | 0 | - | 3 | |
| Samaraweera | 30 | 6 | 90 | 4 | - | 9 | |
| Arnold | 12 | 3 | 37 | 1 | - | 2 | |
| Sri Lanka Board President's XI first innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | ||
| *RP Arnold | b AR Whittall | 27 | 42 | 66 | 2 | - | |
| MC Mendis | c Rennie b Huckle | 28 | 88 | 175 | 1 | 1 | |
| MN Nawaz | c GW Flower b Mbangwa | 111 | 225 | 332 | 9 | 1 | |
| S Ranatunga | b Huckle | 4 | 12 | 21 | - | - | |
| DA Gunawardene | c Rennie b AR Whittall | 19 | 30 | 32 | 3 | - | |
| SI de Saram | c A Flower b Wishart | 56 | 105 | 139 | 5 | - | |
| +WMSM Perera | c A Flower b Mbangwa | 18 | 44 | 49 | 2 | - | |
| AP Dalugoda | c Huckle b GW Flower | 17 | 64 | 90 | 1 | - | |
| TT Samaraweera | not out | 9 | 64 | 72 | - | - | |
| ASA Perera | not out | 8 | 3 | 4 | - | 1 | |
| A Lankatilleke | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 b, 7 lb, 6 nb, 1 w) | 16 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, declared, 112 overs) | 313 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-48 (Arnold, 14.1 ov), 2-81 (Mendis, 27.6 ov), 3-89 (Ranatunga, 33.3 ov), 4-121 (Gunawardene, 40.6 ov), 5-239 (de Saram, 74.2 ov), 6-268 (WMSM Perera, 86.2 ov), 7-279 (Nawaz, 90.6 ov), 8-303 (Dalugoda, 109.5 ov) | |||||||
| Zimbabweans bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | |
| Streak | 18 | 4 | 46 | 0 | - | - | |
| Mbangwa | 14 | 5 | 24 | 2 | - | - | |
| AR Whittall | 31 | 10 | 77 | 2 | - | 1 | |
| Huckle | 27 | 6 | 93 | 2 | - | 5 | |
| GW Flower | 13 | 1 | 44 | 1 | - | - | |
| Goodwin | 6 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 1 | - | |
| Wishart | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | - | - | |