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Updated 29-Sep-2023 • Published 25-Sep-2023

The Buzz: Team arrivals for the World Cup

Hyderabad gives Pakistan a grand welcome

As Pakistan landed in India for what will be their first game of cricket in the country since March 2016 - with several players visiting India for the very first time due to the well-documented political tensions between the two - they were probably asking themselves what sort of reception they would get. Fans in Hyderabad, where Pakistan will warm up for the World Cup, answered in stirring fashion. The team hotel also put on a show. Here's how the PCB documented it all...
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Hit-wicket with a broken bat?

In Somerset's County Championship match against Kent last week in Taunton, there was a near-dismissal when a delivery from Jaskaran Singh hit Lewis Goldsworthy's bat and the toe of the bat broke off to go and hit the stumps. The umpire called no-ball because Jaskaran had overstepped, so Goldsworthy was saved, but what would the outcome have been if it had been a legitimate delivery?
The MCC website explained that Goldsworthy would have been out hit wicket if the ball had been a fair delivery.
"Law 29.2.1.3 which says that the wicket can be fairly broken... by the striker’s bat not in hand, or by any part of the bat which has become detached."
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Nida Dar's Asian Games experience

A big thrill for cricketers to be part of a mega sporting event like the Asian Games.
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