Winning start for Pakistanis

United Arab Emirates 109-9 Pakistan 112-1 (Pakistan win by 9 wickets)

Making their delayed first apperance in the World Cup, Pakistan strolled to a comfortable victory at Gujranwala in a rain-shortened match on Saturday. They restricted the UAE to 109 for 9 off their 33 overs and Ijaz Ahmed struck an unbeaten half century and shared an undefeated 105-run stand for the second wicket with Saeed Anwar.

Pakistan's leg-spinner, Mushtaq Ahmed, was man of the match as he took three wickets in nine deliveries.

After traditional methods were use to mop up the surface water left behind by overnight rain, a Pakistan Air Force helicopter was used for an hour to dry up the soft under-footing on the bowler's run-up.

(Pakistan won toss)

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

G Mylvaganam b Mushtaq 13

Salim Raza c Javed b Aqib 22

Azhar Saeed run out 1

Mazhar Hussain c Waqar b Mushtaq 7

Mohammad Aslam b Mushtaq 5

Mohammad Ishaq b Wasim 12

Arshad Laeeq c Ijaz b Aqib 9

J A Samarasekera b Waqar 10

S Dukanwala not out 21

*S Zarawani b Wasim 1

Imtiaz Abbasi not out 0

Extras (lb1, w5, nb2) 8

Total (for 9, 33 overs) 109

Fall: 1-27, 2-40, 3-47, 4-53, 5-54, 6-70, 7-80, 8-108, 9-109.

Bowling: Wasim Akram 7-1-25-2; Waqar Younis 7-0-33-1; Aqib Javad 6-0- 18-2; Mushtaq Ahmed 7-0-16-3; Aamer Sohail 6-1-16-0.

PAKISTAN

Aamer Sohail b Samarasekera 5

Saeed Anwar not out 40

Ijaz Ahmed not out 50

Extras (lb1, w12, nb4) 17

Total (for 1, 18 overs) 112

Fall: 1-7.

Did not bat: Inzamam-ul-Haq, Javed Miandad, Salim Malik, Rashid Latif, *Wasim Akram, Mushtaq Ahmed, Waqar Younis, Aaqib Javad.

Bowling: Samarasekera 3-0-17-1; Arshad Laeeq 4-0-24-0; Dukanwala 3-1- 14-0; Salim Raza 3-0-17-0; Zarawani 3-0-23-0; Azhar Saeed 2-0-16-0.

Umpires: D C Cooray (Sri Lanka) and S Venkatagravan (Ind).