Pakistan cruised to a 152-run victory over Bangladesh in a match twice delayed due to floodlight failure in Lahore today.

In the first game of a series hastily arranged after Australia withdrew from their scheduled tour of Pakistan on security grounds, the hosts, inspired by Mohammad Yousuf's 15th one-day international century, posted an imposing 322 for five.

And while Bangladesh's hopes were not helped when the floodlights at the Gaddafi Stadium failed on two separate occasions, they never threatened their victory target.

Pakistan left-armer Sohail Tanvir set the hosts on course for victory, claiming three early wickets to leave Bangladesh at 55 for three when the floodlights failed for the first time.

Following a 20-minute delay the players returned, but only one over was possible before the ground was again cast into darkness.

A further 15-minute delay ensued before the tourists were set a revised victory target of 282 from 39 overs.

Any hopes they harboured of claiming an unlikely win soon evaporated as Pakistan seamer Iftikhar Anjum claimed two wickets in as many balls to prompt a lower-order collapse.

The 27-year-old medium-pacer bowled Bangladesh captain Mohammad Ashraful (nine) before he had Shakib Al Hasan caught behind by Kamran Akmal for a first-ball duck to prompt the fall of six wickets for just 27 runs.

A final-wicket stand of 32 between Mashrafe Mortaza (25) and Abdur Razzak (11 not out) provided the tourists' highest partnership of the innings.

Earlier Yousuf had smashed a magnificent ton as Pakistan recovered from a shaky start.

The hosts were 38 for two and 70 for three before a dominant partnership between Yousuf and Shoaib Malik turned things in their favour.

Yousuf struck an unbeaten 108 and Malik added 85 in a stand of 145 for the fourth wicket.

Pakistan captain Malik won the toss and elected to bat, a decision which looked questionable when they lost early wickets.

Nasir Jamshed (20) was getting into his stride - he had smashed a wide-ish delivery for four the previous delivery - when he edged Farhad Reza through to Dhiman Ghosh.

And the wicketkeeper again safely held on when Younus Khan strode down the pitch to Mortaza with just one run to his name.

Salman Butt (33) was next to go - another victim of the Reza-Dhiman combination - but that was as good as it got for Bangladesh.

Yousuf and Malik wasted no time in upping the run-rate, which was around four at the time.

Malik was the main aggressor and he took a particular liking to Aftab Ahmed, collecting back-to-back boundaries in the 22nd over.

He reached 50 with a single off Shakib, which seemed to spur Yousuf on - he hit a brace of boundaries in the next over.

The Bangladesh bowlers had no answer as the pair plundered runs at will - and the wicket, when it did come, was only as a result of some mistimed aggression from Malik.

He sent a Shakib delivery straight into the hands of Shahriar Nafees at long-off, but Misbah-ul-Haq continued where he left off.

He smashed 38 off 27 balls - including back-to-back sixes off Mahmudullah - in a stand of 68 with Yousuf, before edging Mortaza to Dhiman.

That left Yousuf to bring up his century in the company of Shahid Afridi, who himself smashed 27 from 11 balls - including two sixes in the final over.