New Zealand v Sri Lanka
Pepsi Independence Cup 1996/97
Venue Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium, Hyderabad on 20th May 1997 (50-over match) (day/night)
Balls per over 6
Toss Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat
Result Sri Lanka won by 52 runs
Points New Zealand 0; Sri Lanka 2
Umpires SK Bansal, Javed Akhtar
Third umpire S Venkataraghavan
Referee Hanumant Singh
Man of the match RS Kaluwitharana


Sri Lanka innings Runs Balls Mins 4s 6s
ST Jayasuriya c Cairns b O'Connor 4 12 10 - -
MS Atapattu run out (Astle) 41 57 87 6 -
PA de Silva b O'Connor 9 14 13 1 -
*A Ranatunga c Parore b Larsen 15 30 38 2 -
HP Tillakaratne b Astle 29 58 59 3 -
RS Mahanama c McMillan b O'Connor 41 69 76 2 -
+RS Kaluwitharana c Cairns b Astle 44 36 59 5 -
HDPK Dharmasena run out (Horne) 6 5 6 - -
WPUJC Vaas b Larsen 0 1 2 - -
M Muralitharan not out 9 11 12 - -
KSC de Silva lbw b Larsen 0 1 2 - -
Extras (5 b, 6 lb, 2 nb, 3 w) 16
Total (all out, 48.3 overs) 214
Fall of wickets:
1-6 (Jayasuriya), 2-23 (PA de Silva), 3-68 (Ranatunga), 4-85 (Atapattu), 5-126 (Tillakaratne), 6-173 (Mahanama), 7-188 (Dharmasena), 8-194 (Vaas), 9-210 (Kaluwitharana), 10-214 (KSC de Silva)
New Zealand bowling Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Wides No-Balls
O'Connor 9    0 44 3 - 1
Patel 10    0 37 0 - 2
Larsen 9.3 1 43 3 2 -
Harris 10    0 30 0 - -
Astle 8    1 37 2 1 -
Cairns 2    0 12 0 - -

New Zealand innings Runs Balls Mins 4s 6s
BA Young c Kaluwitharana b KSC de Silva 22 27 38 3 -
NJ Astle c Kaluwitharana b Vaas 9 18 31 1 -
MJ Horne st Kaluwitharana b Jayasuriya 41 73 97 2 2
*SP Fleming lbw b PA de Silva 24 53 80 2 -
CL Cairns c PA de Silva b Jayasuriya 6 19 31 - -
CD McMillan st Kaluwitharana b PA de Silva 10 24 45 1 -
CZ Harris not out 26 26 47 2 -
+AC Parore c Tillakaratne b Dharmasena 9 13 18 1 -
DN Patel c Muralitharan b Dharmasena 5 8 6 1 -
GR Larsen b Muralitharan 1 3 7 - -
SB O'Connor c Tillakaratne b Muralitharan 0 7 6 - -
Extras (1 b, 5 lb, 1 nb, 2 w) 9
Total (all out, 44.5 overs) 162
Fall of wickets:
1-29 (Astle), 2-31 (Young), 3-97 (Fleming), 4-103 (Horne), 5-120 (Cairns), 6-120 (McMillan), 7-140 (Parore), 8-147 (Patel), 9-152 (Larsen), 10-162 (O'Connor)
Sri Lanka bowling Overs Mdns Runs Wkts Wides No-Balls
Vaas 6    2 23 1 - -
KSC de Silva 6    2 13 1 - -
Muralitharan 9.5 1 49 2 2 1
Dharmasena 6    0 28 2 - 1
PA de Silva 10    1 22 2 - -
Jayasuriya 7    1 21 2 - -