Scorecard:
Pakistan: 175 for 5 (20 overs)
(Kamran Akmal 41 off 30 balls, Younis Khan 36 off 20 balls, Seelar 2 for 36)
Netherlands 93 all out (17.3 overs)
(Kerveeze 21 off 29 balls, Doeschate 14 off 10 balls, Afridi 4 for 11, Saeed Ajmal 3 for 20)
Pakistan were determined to make it to the second round. Predictably they began slowly and picked up. Also they had stacked a wall of finishers to pick up the scoring rate towards the end of the innings. 4 of their Batsmen reached the thirties, which is a good sign to happen in the same innings.
There was not much competition put up by the minnows, who squandered the psychological edge they may have got by beating England.
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