Pakistan's coach, Bob Woolmer, dances as he arrives at the team's hotel on the eve of opening ceremony of the World Cup yesterday. -Reuters

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC):

BOB WOOLMER, coach of the highly-fancied Pakistan team, says he is not getting carried away with Friday's seven-wicket win over world No.1 South Africa.

He was speaking after his team turned in an efficient per-formance to the final Cricket World Cup warm-up match to beat the Proteas at the Sir Frank Worrell grounds in St. Augustine.

"It's a 13-aside game and hence we have to take the win with a pinch of salt. We need to win when the real matches start," Woolmer said.

"Because, as I see it, we need at least five wins before we get to the knockout stage of the tournament and this would be against really good sides -which means a tremendous amount of work has to go into our game.

"I am not worried, I think we have a good team and once the players get going, we will do well. We have had a good run here and what the guys need to do is to keep up the intensity and build on it as we move on."

His South African counter-part Mickey Arthur said teams bowling first could have some sort of advantage in the World Cup.

"Judging from what we have seen and heard of the pitches, it seems that this World Cup will be a 'bowl first' tournament," Arthur noted.

During South Africa's innings, there was a seven-minute stoppage with the expressing concerns over the pitch, after a few deliveries rose sharply.

After deliberation between the teams and match officials, the game was resumed.

"We had some concerns with the pitch but the umpires said it was okay, so we continued to play on. We did not want to risk having a player like say Jacques Kallis injured before the tournament so we had some concerns," Arthur explained.

"We have had a good day of practice and we are happy that the guys had a good run. After the interruption concerning the pitch, we lost intensity and we did not put up the score we wanted, which was at least 220.

"I am, however, confident in the ability of the players and I am sure we will get better pitches as the tournament goes on."

He said he was pleased with the workout the bowlers had and admitted the only area of concern at the moment was the top order.

"We have to get Kallis, Smith, de Villiers and Gibbs into some sort of form and once this happens, we are going to reach very far in this tournament. Work has to go into our game," Arthur stressed.