Pakistan, who thrashed India by 59 runs on Sunday, have no option but to sit back and watch Tuesday's super league game between Sri Lanka and India to know whether they will make it to the August 1 final.

Sri Lanka, who are assured of a place in the final, will take Pakistan along if they defeat India.

A victory for India, however, will knock Pakistan out of the tournament even before their last league match against Bangladesh on Thursday.

Under tournament rules, a team secures five points for a win and one bonus point if it achieves victory with a run-rate 1.25 times higher than the rival's.

But a losing team gets a bonus point if it prevents the winner from achieving a run-rate 1.25 times higher than its own.

Pakistan, who scored 300-9 from 50 overs against India, needed to keep India down to 239 to take six full points from the match.

India were reduced to 235-8 with three deliveries remaining in the match, before the ninth-wicket pair of Anil Kumble and Laxmipathy Balaji scrambled six runs off the final three balls to gain their team a vital point.

It left India with seven points, two more than Pakistan's five. Sri Lanka are sitting pretty with 12 full points from two games.

Woolmer, watching in horror as India played safe to ensure an extra point, said he was unhappy with the rules, which discouraged India from trying to win.

"It shows a flaw in the bonus-point system," said Woolmer on his first assignment with the Pakistani team.

"If you had no bonus point then I think India would have tried to go the whole way. I think the bonus point should be closer to the main target. I don't think 60 runs difference is right -- 20 or 25 runs would be closer to what we want."