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| Venue | Nehru Stadium, Guwahati on 11th January 1987 (50-over match) |
| Balls per over | 6 |
| Toss | India won the toss and decided to field |
| Result | India won by 8 wickets |
| Umpires | RB Gupta, PG Pandit |
| Player of the Match | SM Gavaskar |
| Sri Lanka innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| JR Ratnayeke | c Shastri b Yadav | 11 | 43 | - | - | 25.58 | |
| PA de Silva | c Azharuddin b Madan Lal | 3 | 13 | - | - | 23.08 | |
| AP Gurusinha | b Yadav | 6 | 39 | 1 | - | 15.38 | |
| RL Dias | lbw b Shastri | 26 | 69 | 2 | - | 37.68 | |
| A Ranatunga | c Srikkanth b Maninder Singh | 0 | 7 | - | - | 0.00 | |
| *LRD Mendis | lbw b Kapil Dev | 31 | 48 | 2 | - | 64.58 | |
| RS Madugalle | not out | 22 | 31 | 1 | - | 70.97 | |
| RJ Ratnayake | run out | 17 | 21 | 2 | - | 80.95 | |
| ALF de Mel | c Azharuddin b Shastri | 7 | 7 | 1 | - | 100.00 | |
| +RG de Alwis | not out | 6 | 5 | - | - | 120.00 | |
| EAR de Silva | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (4 b, 8 lb, 1 nb, 3 w) | 16 | |||||
| Total | (8 wickets, innings closed, 46 overs) | 145 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-7 (PA de Silva), 2-27 (Gurusinha), 3-33 (Ratnayeke), 4-33 (Ranatunga), 5-91 (Dias), 6-93 (Mendis), 7-120 (Ratnayake), 8-135 (de Mel) | |||||||
| India bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| Kapil Dev | 9 | 1 | 32 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 3.56 |
| Madan Lal | 9 | 1 | 25 | 1 | - | - | 54.00 | 2.78 |
| Yadav | 9 | 2 | 18 | 2 | - | - | 27.00 | 2.00 |
| Maninder Singh | 10 | 1 | 30 | 1 | - | - | 60.00 | 3.00 |
| Shastri | 9 | 0 | 28 | 2 | - | - | 27.00 | 3.11 |
| India innings | Runs | Balls | Mins | 4s | 6s | S-Rate | |
| K Srikkanth | lbw b Ratnayake | 19 | 20 | 2 | - | 95.00 | |
| SM Gavaskar | not out | 70 | 83 | 6 | 1 | 84.34 | |
| R Lamba | lbw b Ratnayeke | 2 | 2 | - | - | 100.00 | |
| DB Vengsarkar | not out | 43 | 62 | 4 | - | 69.35 | |
| M Azharuddin | did not bat | ||||||
| RJ Shastri | did not bat | ||||||
| *Kapil Dev | did not bat | ||||||
| +CS Pandit | did not bat | ||||||
| Madan Lal | did not bat | ||||||
| NS Yadav | did not bat | ||||||
| Maninder Singh | did not bat | ||||||
| Extras | (1 lb, 2 nb, 9 w) | 12 | |||||
| Total | (2 wickets, 27.3 overs) | 146 | |||||
| Fall of wickets: | |||||||
| 1-44 (Srikkanth), 2-50 (Lamba) | |||||||
| Sri Lanka bowling | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Wides | No-Balls | S-Rate | Econ |
| de Mel | 7 | 0 | 43 | 0 | - | - | - | 6.14 |
| Ratnayake | 6 | 0 | 26 | 1 | - | - | 36.00 | 4.33 |
| Ratnayeke | 6.3 | 0 | 38 | 1 | - | - | 39.00 | 5.85 |
| Ranatunga | 5 | 0 | 24 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.80 |
| EAR de Silva | 3 | 1 | 14 | 0 | - | - | - | 4.67 |