New Zealand cricket team in Zimbabwe in 1997–98
# New Zealand cricket team in Zimbabwe in 1997–98

The New Zealand cricket team toured Zimbabwe for a two-match Test series and a three-match One Day International (ODI) series between 18 September and 5 October 1997. The Test series was drawn 0–0 and the ODI series was drawn 1–1.

## Test series

### 1st Test

* 18–22 September 1997 Scorecard
* Match drawn Harare Sports Club, Harare Umpires: B. C. Cooray (Sri) and Ian Robinson (Zim) Player of the match: Grant Flower (Zim)
* New Zealand won the toss and elected to field.

### 2nd Test

* 25–29 September 1997 Scorecard
* Match drawn Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo Umpires: Srinivas Venkataraghavan (Ind) and Russell Tiffin (Zim) Player of the match: Guy Whittall (Zim)
* Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to bat.

## ODI series

### 1st ODI

* 1 October 1997 Scorecard

| Zimbabwe 233/8 (50 overs) | v | New Zealand 233/9 (50 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Grant Flower 66 (95) Shayne O'Connor 2/28 (8 overs) | | Chris Harris 77* (102) John Rennie 2/47 (10 overs) |

* Match tied Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo Umpires: Quintin Goosen (Zim) and Russell Tiffin (Zim) Player of the match: Chris Harris (NZ)
* Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to bat.

### 2nd ODI

* 4 October 1997 Scorecard

| New Zealand 185/7 (50 overs) | v | Zimbabwe 188/7 (48.2 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Craig McMillan 38 (84) Craig Evans 2/27 (10 overs) | | Alistair Campbell 77* (114) Craig McMillan 2/17 (4 overs) |

* Zimbabwe won by 3 wickets Harare Sports Club, Harare Umpires: Graeme Evans (Zim) and Ian Robinson (Zim) Player of the match: Paul Strang (Zim)
* New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat.

### 3rd ODI

* 5 October 1997 Scorecard

| New Zealand 294/7 (50 overs) | v | Zimbabwe 211 (44.1 overs) |
| - | - | - |
| Chris Cairns 71 (78) Bryan Strang 3/66 (10 overs) | | Guy Whittall 49 (45) Daniel Vettori 3/41 (7.1 overs) |

* New Zealand won by 83 runs Harare Sports Club, Harare Umpires: Russell Tiffin (Zim) and Ian Robinson (Zim) Player of the match: Chris Cairns (NZ)
* New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat.
