Debutant Junaid Siddique’s sparkling 71 went in vain as a lackadaisical Pakistan, with a ticket to the semifinal in their pocket, tamed Bangladesh by four wickets in an inconsequential match of the Twenty20 cricket World Cup here on Thursday.

Junaid’s 49-ball 71 was the hightlight of the Bangladesh innings after the minnows were inserted by Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik. Bangladesh were all out for 140 runs with two more deilveries to go.

Chasing 141 for a win, Pakistan hardly looked convincing even though they managed to reach the target with one over to spare.

Big-hitting Shahid Afridi, opening the innings for Pakistan and topscored for them with a 15-ball 39 that included two sixes and five boundaries, while Imran Nazir, hit in the groin by Mashrafe Mortaza’s third delivery, returned to remain not out on 27.

Score board
Bangladesh
Iqbal (run out) 3
Siddique c Misbah b Malik 71
Aftab st Akmal b Hafeez 15
Ashraful lbw b Afridi 5
Hasan c&b Hafeez 1
Chowdhury c Akmal b Malik 12
Riyad (run out) 1
Mortaza b Asif 11
Rahim (not out) 6
Razzak (run out) 0
Rasel b Gul  1
Extras (LB-7, WD-3, NB-4) 14
Total (allout in 19.4 overs) 140
Fall of wickets: 1-16, 2-79, 3-84, 4-86, 5-112, 6-119, 7-122, 8-137, 9-137.
Bowling: Asif 4-0-26-0, Tanvir 3-0-27-0, Afridi 4-0-25-1, Hafeez 3-0-27-2, Gul 3.4-0-17-1, Malik 2-0-15-2.

Pakistan
Nazir (not out) 27
Afridi c Rahim b Razzak 39
Hafeez c&b Rasel 23
Butt (run out) 21
Younis st Rahim b Razzak 1
Malik c Ahmed b Riyad 21
Misbah lbw b Mortaza 1
Akmal (not out) 3
Extras (LB-1, W-3, NB-1) 5
Total (for 6 wkts in 19 overs) 141
Fall of wickets: 1-59, 2-66, 3-69, 4-102, 5-106, 6-119.
Bowling: Mortaza 4-0-45-1, Rasel 3-0-34-1, Abdur Razzak 4-0-16-2,  Sakib Al Hasan 4-0-17-0, Riyad 4-0-28-1.