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| Venue | Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah on 7th November 1998 (50-over match) (day/night) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Zimbabwe won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Zimbabwe won by 7 wickets |
| Points | Sri Lanka 0; Zimbabwe 2 |
| Umpires | Javed Akhtar, DL Orchard |
| TV umpire | RS Dunne |
| Referee | E Isaccs |
| Player of the Match | EA Brandes |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| ST Jayasuriya | lbw b Brandes | 22 | 39 | 52 | 2 | 1 | 56.41 |
| DA Gunawardene | lbw b Brandes | 1 | 5 | 15 | - | - | 20.00 |
| +RS Kaluwitharana | run out (Goodwin) | 0 | 3 | 7 | - | - | 0.00 |
| MS Atapattu | lbw b Brandes | 0 | 1 | 8 | - | - | 0.00 |
| PA de Silva | lbw b Goodwin | 55 | 68 | 105 | 6 | - | 80.88 |
| *A Ranatunga | st A Flower b Whittall | 18 | 52 | 59 | 1 | - | 34.62 |
| RS Mahanama | b Evans | 51 | 69 | 80 | 2 | - | 73.91 |
| TT Samaraweera | lbw b Evans | 20 | 41 | 37 | - | - | 48.78 |
| WPUJC Vaas | b Evans | 0 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| HDPK Dharmasena | not out | 11 | 13 | 21 | - | - | 84.62 |
| DNT Zoysa | run out (Streak) | 4 | 6 | 6 | - | - | 66.67 |
| Extras | (3 lb, 2 nb, 9 w) | 14 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 49.4 overs) | 196 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-10 (Gunawardene, 2.4 ov), 2-11 (Kaluwitharana, 3.6 ov), 3-24 (Atapattu, 6.1 ov), 4-49 (Jayasuriya, 10.4 ov), 5-97 (Ranatunga, 25.3 ov), 6-126 (de Silva, 31.1 ov), 7-171 (Samaraweera, 44.3 ov), 8-171 (Vaas, 44.5 ov), 9-188 (Mahanama, 48.2 ov), 10-196 (Zoysa, 49.4 ov) | |||||||
| Zimbabwe bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Brandes | 7 | 2 | 19 | 3 | 1 | - | 14.00 | 2.71 |
| Johnson | 6 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 4 | 1 | - | 5.33 |
| Streak | 9.4 | 0 | 53 | 0 | 4 | 1 | - | 5.48 |
| Whittall | 10 | 1 | 30 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 3.00 |
| Strang | 10 | 0 | 36 | 0 | - | - | - | 3.60 |
| Goodwin | 4 | 1 | 12 | 1 | - | - | 24.00 | 3.00 |
| Evans | 3 | 0 | 11 | 3 | - | - | 6.00 | 3.67 |
| Zimbabwe innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| *ADR Campbell | c Ranatunga b Zoysa | 5 | 12 | 13 | 1 | - | 41.67 |
| GW Flower | not out | 87 | 127 | 193 | 4 | - | 68.50 |
| NC Johnson | run out (Vaas) | 9 | 19 | 25 | 1 | - | 47.37 |
| MW Goodwin | run out (Atapattu) | 54 | 68 | 67 | 6 | 1 | 79.41 |
| +A Flower | not out | 26 | 58 | 85 | - | - | 44.83 |
| CB Wishart | did not bat | ||||||
| CN Evans | did not bat | ||||||
| HH Streak | did not bat | ||||||
| PA Strang | did not bat | ||||||
| EA Brandes | did not bat | ||||||
| AR Whittall | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 lb, 7 nb, 7 w) | 16 | |||||
| Total | (3 wickets, 46.1 overs) | 197 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-7 (Campbell, 3.1 ov), 2-31 (Johnson, 8.3 ov), 3-121 (Goodwin, 26.1 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Vaas | 10 | 1 | 38 | 0 | - | 2 | - | 3.80 |
| Zoysa | 10 | 0 | 33 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 60.00 | 3.30 |
| Dharmasena | 10 | 1 | 33 | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | 3.30 |
| de Silva | 2.1 | 0 | 16 | 0 | - | - | - | 7.38 |
| Samaraweera | 10 | 0 | 49 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 4.90 |
| Jayasuriya | 4 | 0 | 26 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.50 |