Shoaib Malik won the toss and opted to bat


The initial going was tough, as both Praveen Kumar and RP Singh kept the runs under check


Malik and Salman Butt picked up the odd runs. Pakistan were 15 for 0 after eight overs


The crowds were absent for the previous two games in Karachi, but they flocked to the National Stadium for the India-Pakistan clash


Butt and Malik built a steady platform for Pakistan with a 90-run opening stand


Butt fell for 35, but Malik worked his way to a fifty


He was joined by Younis Khan and the two slowly began to pick up the momentum


They began to find the gaps and boundaries, and India found themselves in a similar situation as in the recent Kitply Cup final


Malik raises his bat after scoring his first hundred as Pakistan captain


Younis made a run-a-ball 59, and his 129-run stand with Malik put Pakistan in charge


However, both batsmen failed to seize the advantage in the final overs. Shoaib Malik couldn't continue because of cramps, and Younis Khan fell soon after


Mohammad Yousuf and Misbah-ul-Haq scored 30s as Pakistan finished on 299 for 4


A rib injury forced Umar Gul to leave the field after bowling 1.2 overs, but Iftikhar Anjum snared Gautam Gambhir the very next ball, with Misbah plucking a stunner


From then on, it was India all the way, as Virender Sehwag and Suresh Raina got stuck into the opposition


The two had plundered runs against Hong Kong on Wednesday, and the flow of runs didn't abate against Pakistan


Raina had scored his maiden ton against Hong Kong, and didn't leave any opportunity on another flat deck in Karachi


With Gul gone and Malik struggling, Pakistan had only two specialist bowlers left - Iftikhar, Sohail Tanvir and Shahid Afridi. Sehwag cashed in, plundering sixes against Afridi and the part-time bowlers


Sehwag launches one of the 12 sixes in India's innings


Raina got to his fifty first ...


... but Sehwag reached the hundred faster


Raina, however, was dismissed on 84. The second-wicket stand between Sehwag and him was 198, scored at more than eight an over


Sehwag went on to make a 95-ball 119, and victory was a foregone conclusion when he departed with 69 more runs needed