Inzamam steadies Pakistan as sightscreen delays play

ST AUGUSTINE, Trinidad, Mar 6 (Reuters) Inzamam-ul-Haq and Mohammad Hafeez scored half-centuries to steady Pakistan's innings in their World Cup warm-up match against Canada today after a fallen sightscreen delayed play.

Pakistan, who were put in to bat, totalled 273 for eight in a match that was reduced to 48 overs-a-side when the sightscreen toppled and it took 77 minutes for play to resume.

Captain Inzamam scored 59 and Hafeez made 61 to guide Pakistan to a respectable score in St Augustine after they slipped to 66 for four.

They shared 93 runs for the fifth wicket against a Canadian attack that looked less penetrative once early moisture in the pitch dried under a hot sun.

Lusty late order hitting by Kamran Akmal, who clipped his unbeaten 56 off 37 balls with two fours and four sixes, boosted Pakistan to their hefty total.

Akmal and Azhar Mahmood, who scored 23, needed just 38 balls to realise their eighth-wicket stand of 56.

Fast bowler Anderson Cummins was born in Barbados and played five tests and 63 one-day internationals for the West Indies before turning out for Canada in 2007.

Cummins, who is 40 years old, defied his age and the heat to take two for 58 from eight overs.

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