Pakistan vs. UAE: Highlights, Scorecard, Report from Cricket World Cup

Pakistan continued their revival at the Cricket World Cup by crushing the United Arab Emirates by 129 runs on Wednesday.

UAE captain Mohammad Tauqir elected to field first at McLean Park for the Pool B clash and saw Pakistan amass 339-6 in their 50 overs.

			Runs	Minutes	Balls	4s	6s
Jamshed	c Khurram Khan	b Guruge	4	15	12	0	0
Shehzad	run out (Anwar)		93	148	105	8	1
Haris Sohail	c Anwar	b Naveed	70	122	83	5	1
Maqsood	c Mustafa	b Guruge	45	45	31	4	2
Misbah-ul-Haq	c Mustafa	b Guruge	65	65	49	4	2
U Akmal	c Amjad Ali	b Guruge	19	25	13	1	1
Shahid Afridi	not out		21	6	7	1	2
Riaz	not out		6	5	1	0	1
Extras		1nb 12w 0b 3lb	16
	Bowler		Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets
	Naveed		10	0	50	1
	Guruge		8	0	56	4
	Javed		9	0	76	0
	Tauqir		10	0	52	0
	Khurram Khan		3	0	21	0
	Chandran		8	0	58	0
	Mustafa		2	0	23	0

The Associate Nation failed to make any sort of challenge as they timidly made 210-8 in their reply.

			Runs	Minutes	Balls	4s	6s
Amjad Ali		b Rahat Ali	14	29	30	2	0
Berenger	c U Akmal	b Sohail Khan	2	34	13	0	0
Chandran	c U Akmal	b Sohail Khan	0	15	11	0	0
Khurram Khan	c Riaz	b Maqsood	43	83	54	3	1
Anwar	c Jamshed	b Shahid Afridi	62	102	88	4	2
Patil		b Riaz	36	82	68	2	0
Mustafa	c Shehzad	b Shahid Afridi	0		2	0	0
Javed	c Sohail Khan	b Riaz	40	47	33	5	2
Naveed	not out		0	3	0	0	0
Tauqir	not out		0		1	0	0
Extras		0nb 12w 0b 1lb	13
Bowler			Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets
Irfan			3	1	2	0
Sohail Khan			9	2	54	2
Rahat Ali			10	0	30	1
Riaz			10	1	54	2
Shahid Afridi			10	1	35	2
Maqsood			5	0	16	1
Haris Sohail			3	0	18	0

After being soundly beaten by India and West Indies, Pakistan stuttered to a 20-run victory against Zimbabwe on Sunday and will look for their third win in a week against South Africa on Saturday.

On what is considered the best batting pitch in New Zealand, Ahmed Shehzad, Haris Sohail and Misbah-ul-Haq all scored half-centuries.

After the departure of Nasir Jamshed (4) in the fourth over, Shehzad (93) and Sohail (70) put on 166 for the second wicket before both departed in the space of nine balls.

Pakistan were 176-3 at the start of the 35th over but finished strongly with Sohaib Maqsood (45), skipper Misbah (65) and Shahid Afridi (21) all hitting two sixes, although Manjula Guruge picked up late wickets to finish with 4-56.

In just their second appearance at the World Cup, UAE stuttered to 25-3 at the end of the powerplay with two early wickets for Sohail Khan.

Shaiman Anwar, who had already scored a hundred against Ireland, a half-century against Zimbabwe and 35 against the reigning world champions India, continued his fine form and put on 83 with Khurram Khan (43).

The Pakistan-born batsman made 62 but when he became the first of Afridi’s two victims in the 39th over, the required run rate was over 16 per over.

Amjad Javed made a quickfire 40 but it was in vain as UAE slipped to their fourth consecutive defeat.

Meanwhile Pakistan fans continue to dream and draw comparisons with the 1992 World Cup campaign in Australia and New Zealand when Imran Khan's team only won one of their opening five games before winning five in a row to claim the title.