Cricket Australia admitted to there being an error on their live score ticker that resulted in a racist term being displayed during Pakistan’s tour match at Canberra.
Pakistan will tour Australia for three Test matches as part of the 2023-25 World Test Championship and Benaud Qadir Trophy. Before the series, they will play a tour match against the Australian Prime Minister’s Eleven at Manuka Oval in Canberra.
Pakistan’s new captain, Shan Masood won the toss and was chosen to bat, with Abdullah Shafiq and Imam-ul-Haq starting.
The match was broadcast live. On the live ticker, the home team is represented by his PMXI and the tourists are represented by I after his frequently used PAK.
This was controversial because the four-letter word P*** was a swear word used not only by people of Pakistani descent but throughout the Indian subcontinent. In many parts of the world, this word is considered derogatory, and theOxford Dictionary classifies this word as “insulting.”
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) 6. 2023 年 12 月
Australian cricket journalist Danny Said highlighted this issue. Cricket Australia changed the ad to ‘PAK’ and also issued an immediate statement I did. This was an automatic feed from a data provider not previously used by Pakistani games. Of course this was unfortunate and I fixed the error manually as soon as I discovered it. ”
Pakistan had a score of 324-6 at the end of the match. Masood was the highest scorer with 156 points. Jordan Buckingham clocked his 3:63 for the host team.
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