New Delhi, Feb. 9 -- West Indies fast bowler Romario Shepherd took four Scotland wickets in five balls, including a hat trick, and Faheem Ashraf's late assault rescued Pakistan in a three-wicket win over the Netherlands on an eventful opening day of cricket's T20 World Cup.

The U.S. gave India a huge scare in Mumbai before captain Suryakumar Yadav saved his team with 84 not out off 49 balls as the tournament co-host won by 29 runs.

Pakistan needed Saturday's win as it can ill afford to lose any Group A points after announcing it would boycott the Feb. 15 match in co-host Sri Lanka against India, a decision that shook the cricket world.

The ICC hopes the PCB will reconsider otherwise Pakistan will forfeit the marquee game of the tournam...