- India innings: 50 off 70 balls, 55 minutes; 100 off 134 balls, 97 minutes; 150 off 207 balls, 145 minutes; 200 off 260 balls, 184 minutes; 250 off 294 balls, 209 minutes
- R Dravid 50 off 60 balls, 97 minutes; 100 off 112 balls, 181 minutes, 8x4
- SC Ganguly and R Dravid partnership: 50 off 58 balls, 44 minutes; 100 off 126 balls, 88 minutes
- R Dravid and RR Singh partnership: 50 off 44 balls, 34 minutes
- SP Fleming left the field at 4:54pm with a groin strain, replaced as captain by DJ Nash
- CD McMillan 50 off 42 balls, 63 minutes, 8x4
- MJ Horne 50 off 51 balls, 82 minutes
- MJ Horne and CD McMillan partnership: 100 off 99 balls, 73 minutes
- Attendance: 12000
- First ever One-Day International at Taupo, New Zealand's 8th new venue (after Christchurch, Dunedin, Wellington, Auckland, Hamilton, Napier and New Plymouth). It is the 122nd venue worldwide.
- A lighting tower blew a fuse at 8:56pm and as a result a circuit breaker had to be replaced, delaying a resumption in play for almost 50 minutes. Drinks were taken upon stoppage of play with New Zealand 168/3 after 30.4 overs. 11 overs were deducted based on a rate of 1 over per 4.2 minutes lost.
- New Zealand's target revised to 200 runs off 39 overs to win using the Duckworth/Lewis method (32 runs off the remaining 8.2 overs required).
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