| a13820 o1776 |
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| Venue | Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo on 8th December 2001 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | Sri Lanka won by 9 wickets |
| Points | Sri Lanka 5 (Bonus 1); Zimbabwe 0 |
| Umpires | DN Pathirana, MG Silva |
| TV umpire | EAR de Silva |
| Referee | R Subba Row |
| Player of the Match | WPUJC Vaas |
| Zimbabwe innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| DD Ebrahim | lbw b Vaas | 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 0.00 |
| GW Flower | b Vaas | 1 | 11 | 24 | - | - | 9.09 |
| *SV Carlisle | c Perera b Vaas | 16 | 35 | 50 | 3 | - | 45.71 |
| +A Flower | c Sangakkara b Vaas | 0 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| CB Wishart | lbw b Vaas | 6 | 17 | 28 | 1 | - | 35.29 |
| DA Marillier | not out | 4 | 10 | 35 | - | - | 40.00 |
| T Taibu | lbw b Vaas | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| HH Streak | lbw b Vaas | 0 | 3 | 8 | - | - | 0.00 |
| ML Nkala | c Sangakkara b Vaas | 1 | 11 | 11 | - | - | 9.09 |
| TJ Friend | b Muralitharan | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 | - | 80.00 |
| HK Olonga | c Jayawardene b Muralitharan | 0 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 0.00 |
| Extras | (1 lb, 4 nb, 1 w) | 6 | |||||
| Total | (all out, 87 minutes, 15.4 overs) | 38 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-0 (Ebrahim, 0.1 ov), 2-11 (GW Flower, 4.3 ov), 3-11 (A Flower, 4.5 ov), 4-27 (Carlisle, 10.3 ov), 5-27 (Wishart, 10.4 ov), 6-27 (Taibu, 10.5 ov), 7-29 (Streak, 12.4 ov), 8-32 (Nkala, 14.3 ov), 9-38 (Friend, 15.2 ov), 10-38 (Olonga, 15.4 ov) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Vaas | 8 | 3 | 19 | 8 | - | 4 | 6.00 | 2.38 |
| Zoysa | 7 | 2 | 17 | 0 | 1 | - | - | 2.43 |
| Muralitharan | 0.4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 2.00 | 1.50 |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| *ST Jayasuriya | not out | 13 | 7 | 21 | 2 | - | 185.71 |
| DA Gunawardene | lbw b Streak | 2 | 3 | 3 | - | - | 66.67 |
| MS Atapattu | not out | 23 | 16 | 17 | 4 | - | 143.75 |
| DPMD Jayawardene | did not bat | ||||||
| RP Arnold | did not bat | ||||||
| +KC Sangakkara | did not bat | ||||||
| DNT Zoysa | did not bat | ||||||
| ASA Perera | did not bat | ||||||
| HDPK Dharmasena | did not bat | ||||||
| M Muralitharan | did not bat | ||||||
| WPUJC Vaas | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (2 w) | 2 | |||||
| Total | (1 wicket, 21 minutes, 4.2 overs) | 40 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-4 (Gunawardene, 0.5 ov) | |||||||
| Zimbabwe bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Streak | 2.2 | 0 | 26 | 1 | 2 | - | 14.00 | 11.14 |
| Friend | 2 | 0 | 14 | 0 | - | - | - | 7.00 |