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| Venue | Barabati Stadium, Cuttack on 9th April 1998 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Zimbabwe won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | India won by 32 runs |
| Points | India 2; Zimbabwe 0 |
| Umpires | NN Menon, R Nagarajan |
| TV umpire | S Banerjee |
| Referee | PL van der Merwe |
| Player of the Match | M Azharuddin |
| India innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| SC Ganguly | c A Flower b Streak | 13 | 30 | 48 | 1 | - | 43.33 |
| SR Tendulkar | c A Flower b Mbangwa | 1 | 2 | 18 | - | - | 50.00 |
| VVS Laxman | lbw b Mbangwa | 0 | 3 | 3 | - | - | 0.00 |
| *M Azharuddin | not out | 153 | 150 | 202 | 17 | 1 | 102.00 |
| AD Jadeja | not out | 116 | 121 | 176 | 6 | 2 | 95.87 |
| HH Kanitkar | did not bat | ||||||
| +NR Mongia | did not bat | ||||||
| AB Agarkar | did not bat | ||||||
| BKV Prasad | did not bat | ||||||
| DS Mohanty | did not bat | ||||||
| RL Sanghvi | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 lb, 2 nb, 14 w) | 18 | |||||
| Total | (3 wickets, innings closed, 50 overs) | 301 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-8 (Tendulkar, 3.3 ov), 2-8 (Laxman, 3.6 ov), 3-26 (Ganguly, 8.3 ov) | |||||||
| Zimbabwe bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Streak | 10 | 0 | 56 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 60.00 | 5.60 |
| Mbangwa | 9 | 0 | 47 | 2 | 5 | - | 27.00 | 5.22 |
| Whittall | 8 | 0 | 68 | 0 | 2 | 3 | - | 8.50 |
| Brent | 5 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 5.20 |
| Huckle | 8 | 1 | 42 | 0 | - | 3 | - | 5.25 |
| Evans | 6 | 0 | 39 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 6.50 |
| GW Flower | 4 | 0 | 21 | 0 | - | - | - | 5.25 |
| Zimbabwe innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| GW Flower | c and b Sanghvi | 102 | 118 | 230 | 8 | - | 86.44 |
| *ADR Campbell | c Azharuddin b Prasad | 11 | 17 | 22 | 1 | - | 64.71 |
| MW Goodwin | c Kanitkar b Agarkar | 47 | 34 | 47 | 6 | - | 138.24 |
| +A Flower | b Agarkar | 3 | 11 | 16 | - | - | 27.27 |
| GJ Whittall | run out (Tendulkar->Mongia) | 13 | 10 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 130.00 |
| HH Streak | b Ganguly | 30 | 36 | 51 | 3 | - | 83.33 |
| PA Strang | run out (Mongia) | 8 | 17 | 25 | - | - | 47.06 |
| CN Evans | b Ganguly | 4 | 9 | 12 | 1 | - | 44.44 |
| GB Brent | b Kanitkar | 24 | 36 | 51 | 1 | - | 66.67 |
| M Mbangwa | c Prasad b Kanitkar | 8 | 9 | 9 | 1 | - | 88.89 |
| AG Huckle | not out | 0 | 0 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| Extras | (6 lb, 4 nb, 9 w) | 19 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 48.4 overs) | 269 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-23 (Campbell, 4.6 ov), 2-92 (Goodwin, 14.1 ov), 3-104 (A Flower, 16.6 ov), 4-121 (Whittall, 19.3 ov), 5-188 (Streak, 31.3 ov), 6-204 (Strang, 35.2 ov), 7-211 (Evans, 37.5 ov), 8-255 (GW Flower, 45.6 ov), 9-269 (Mbangwa, 48.3 ov), 10-269 (Brent, 48.4 ov) | |||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Prasad | 7 | 0 | 40 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 42.00 | 5.71 |
| Mohanty | 10 | 0 | 54 | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | 5.40 |
| Agarkar | 8 | 0 | 45 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 24.00 | 5.62 |
| Ganguly | 8 | 0 | 34 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 24.00 | 4.25 |
| Sanghvi | 7 | 0 | 44 | 1 | - | - | 42.00 | 6.29 |
| Kanitkar | 6.4 | 0 | 26 | 2 | 1 | - | 20.00 | 3.90 |
| Tendulkar | 2 | 0 | 20 | 0 | - | - | - | 10.00 |