The 2023 World Cup held contrasting outcomes in store for Pakistan and Australia. While the former finished fifth and crashed out of the league stage, the latter went on to lift the cup, for their sixth world title.
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The two sides are set to meet in their first red-ball assignment after the global event, as Pakistan fly Down Under for a three-match Test series, beginning on December 14 in Brisbane. The tour is Pakistan's first under new Test captain Shan Masood, who was appointed after Babar Azam stepped down after the World Cup.
Before the start of the competitive games, Pakistan took on the Prime Minister's XI in a warm-up match in Canberra starting on December 6, and the game courted some controversy on Day 1.
Racist slur seen on Australian cricket broadcast?
Cricket Australia had made the match available to Australian viewers, but journalist Daany Saeed caught a key detail on the broadcast that had the potential to turn into a much bigger issue.
The choice to run with “PAKI” on the Fox ticker over the traditional “PAK” is…quite a choice. pic.twitter.com/FZz4ulYtV0
— Daany Saeed (@daanysaeed) December 5, 2023
On broadcast scoreboards, the general abbreviation for 'Pakistan' is 'PAK' but in this instance the display showed 'PAKI'. The word 'Paki' has often been used in Western countries to refer to people of Pakistani and/or Indian subcontinental origin in a derogatory fashion, and carries racist connotations.
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Cricket Australia soon corrected the broadcast to show the usual 'PAK' before issuing the following clarification.
A clarifier on this from CA: “The graphic was an automatic feed from a data provider which had not been used previously for a Pakistan game. This was obviously regrettable, and the error we corrected manually as soon as it came to light.” https://t.co/7FttR2iZTR
— Daany Saeed (@daanysaeed) December 6, 2023
At the end of day 2 of the warm-up match, the PM's XI were 149/2 after Pakistan scored 391/9 declared, on the back of captain Shan Masood's unbeaten double century.
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