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Match Date : February 27, 1996
Venue : Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad
Toss : UAE won the toss and elected to field first
Umpires : BC Cooray and S Venkataraghavan
Match Result : New Zealand won by 109 runs
Man of the Match : Roger Twose
New Zealand (47 Overs Maximum)
Craig Spearman b Saleem Raza 78 (77) 10 ‘4s’
Nathan Astle b Johanne Samarasekera 2 (2)
Stephen Fleming c&b Shaukat Dukanwala 16 (11) 4 ‘4s’
Roger Twose c Mazhar Hussain b Azhar Saeed 92 (112) 8 ‘4s’
Chris Cairns c Imtiaz Abbasi b Sultan Zarawani 6 (20)
Adam Parore c Azhar Saeed b Sultan Zarawani 15 (18)
Shane Thomson not out 31 (35) 2 ‘4s’
Lee Germon (C, WK) b Azhar Saeed 3 (6)
Dion Nash lbw b Azhar Saeed 8 (12)
Danny Morrison not out 10 (2) 1 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Robert Kennedy
Extras : 15 (Wides: 0 No Balls: 1 Byes: 2 Leg Byes: 12)
Total : 276/8 (Overs: 47.0)
Fall of Wickets : 1-11 (Astle), 2-42 (Fleming), 3-162 (Spearman), 4-173 (Cairns), 5-210 (Parore), 6-228 (Twose), 7-239 (Germon), 8-266 (Nash)
UAE Bowling
Johanne Samarasekera 6-0-30-1
Arshad Laeeq 2-0-16-0
Saleem Raza 9-0-48-1
Shaukat Dukanwala 10-0-46-1 (1nb)
Mazhar Hussain 3-0-28-0
Azhar Saeed 7-0-45-3
Sultan Zarawani 10-0-49-2
- Match reduced to 47 overs each side due to heavy fog at the start
UAE (Target : 277 from 50 Overs)
Azhar Saeed c Fleming b Dion Nash 5 (20)
Saleem Raza c Kennedy b Danny Morrison 21 (17) 3 ‘4s’ 1 ‘6s’
Mazhar Hussain c Cairns b Shane Thomson 29 (53) 5 ‘4s’
Vijay Mehra c Cairns b Shane Thomson 12 (21) 1 ‘4s’
Mohammad Ishaq c Fleming b Robert Kennedy 8 (9)
Mohammad Aslam c Twose b Shane Thomson 1 (12)
Shaukat Dukanwala c&b Chris Cairns 8 (21)
Arshad Laeeq run out 14 (36) 3 ‘4s’
Johanne Samarasekera not out 47 (59) 5 ‘4s’
Sultan Zarawani (C) c Thomson b Dion Nash 13 (18) 1 ‘4s’
Imtiaz Abbasi (WK) not out 2 (6)
Extras : 7 (Wides: 3 No Balls: 2 Byes: 0 Leg Byes: 2)
Total : 167/9 (Overs: 47.0)
Fall of Wickets : 1-23 (Azhar Saeed), 2-29 (Saleem Raza), 3-65 (Mehra), 4-70 (Mazhar Hussain), 5-81 (Mohammad Ishaq), 6-88 (Mohammad Aslam), 7-92 (Dukanwala), 8-124 (Arshad Laeeq), 9-162 (Sultan Zarawani)
New Zealand Bowling
Danny Morrison 7-0-37-1 (2nb)
Dion Nash 9-1-34-2 (2wd)
Chris Cairns 10-2-31-1
Robert Kennedy 6-0-20-1 (1wd)
Shane Thomson 10-2-20-3
Nathan Astle 5-0-23-0