Racist word used during Australia PM XI vs Pakistan

Pakistan is currently in Australia for the three-match Test series. Ahead of the series, they are playing in a four-day game against Australia’s Prime Minister XI. Two days of the match have been played with the home team batting at this point. Meanwhile, at the start of the first day, a controversy brewed. Apparently, in the scorecard graphic of the game, “PAKI” was used as the acronym for the Asian side when they were batting.

For the unversed, the term was first used in Britain during the 1960s and has been termed as racist. This term is derogatory and the Oxford Dictionary has classified it as an ‘offensive term’. This was pointed out by an Australian journalist of Pakistani descent. In reply, Cricket Australia said, “This was obviously regrettable, and the error we corrected manually as soon as it came to light.”

Australia Squad: Pat Cummins (captain), Scott Boland, Alex Carey, Cameron Green, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Mitch Marsh, Lance Morris, Steve Smith, Mitch Starc, David Warner.

Pakistan squad for PAK vs AUS Tests: Shan Masood (captain), Aamir Jamal, Abdullah Shafique, Abrar Ahmed, Babar Azam, Faheem Ashraf, Hasan Ali, Imam-ul-Haq, Khurram Shahzad, Mir Hamza, Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Mohammad Wasim Jnr, Noman Ali, Saim Ayub, Salman Ali Agha, Sarfaraz Ahmed (wk), Saud Shakeel and Shaheen Shah Afridi.