KIMBERLEY - Having been beaten by Australia in the opening game, and to add insult to injury, being considered ‘a topsy turvy team, which is quite beatable on its off-day’ by Namibian coach Douglas Brown, Pakistan enter the De Beers Oval Sunday to put some points on the table and improve their net run rate.

In a press conference here, skipper Waqar Younis acknowledged that motivating the boys against the minnows was important. “This is a World Cup game; so there is no question of any complacency”.

To another question, he said that he would not ask his fast bowlers to relent simply because of the inexperience of the Namibians.

Pakistan’s Wasim Akram felt relief rather than ecstasy on Tuesday after becoming the first player in history to take 500 one-day international wickets.

The 36-year-old left-arm swing bowler, who reached the mark by dismissing Dutch opener Nick Statham in a World Cup Group A match, said: “I was really under pressure last night and, like any youngster, although I am not a youngster, I couldn’t get to sleep.

“But now I’m relaxed and, yes, relieved… It was a feeling more of relief than ecstasy.”

Statham was out for a duck after playing a typically venomous inswinging Wasim delivery back on to his stumps.