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Pakistan will send a three-man delegation to India to assess security before allowing their team to compete in the World Twenty20. Interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan confirmed the delegation will leave for India on Monday and will examine hotels, road routes and cricket grounds while there.If the delegations report on the situation is positive, Pakistans team will travel to India on Wednesday. Pakistan expressed concern after the head of Himachal Pradesh state stated they could not provide security for the team, and that its high-profile match against India on March 19 should be moved to another state.Pakistan are due to face a qualifier in their opening World Twenty20 game on March 16. Coverage of the game - if it goes ahead - will get underway on Sky Sports 2 HD at 9am. Also See: Who is Liam Dawson? Bopara: Ill bounce back Hussain: England can win World T20 Get Sky Sports Balenciaga Sale Nz . The Canadian squad, skipped by Jennifer Jones of Winnipeg, got on the board first with two in the second end, and followed that with two more apiece in the fourth and sixth ends. Discount Balenciaga . -- Catcher Brett Hayes has agreed to a $630,000, one-year contract with the Kansas City Royals, avoiding salary arbitration. http://www.balenciagasalenz.com/ . Jordan Lynch, the all-purpose Heisman Trophy finalist from Northern Illinois, failed to make it into that exclusive club. Balenciaga Shoes Nz . Jeff Green scored 13 points and Kris Humphries 12 for the Celtics, who nearly blew an 18-point, second-half lead. Sullingers 20-20 was the first by a Celtics player since Kevin Garnetts first game in Boston in 2007. Garnett was dealt -- along with Paul Pierce -- to Brooklyn during the off-season. Buy Balenciaga Nz . -- Al Jefferson found a groove just in time for the Charlotte Bobcats. Duke is in a familiar place to open the college basketball season.The Blue Devils are the runaway choice for No. 1 in The Associated Press preseason Top 25 on Monday. It is the eighth time Duke has held the preseason No. 1 ranking. North Carolina has the most preseason No. 1s with nine and UCLA also has eight.The Blue Devils, who return three starters from last seasons team and have what is considered one of the top recruiting classes in the nation, received 58 of the 65 first-place votes from the national media panel.Kentucky, which had two No. 1 votes, is second, while Kansas is third. Defending national champion Villanova had four first-place votes and was fourth while Oregon, which had the other No. 1 vote, is fifth.North Carolina, Xavier, Virginia, Wisconsin and Arizona round out the top 10.Indiana is 11th followed by Michigan State, Louisville, Gonzaga, Purdue, UCLA, Saint Marys, Connecticut, Syracuse and West Virginia.The last five ranked teams are Texas, Creighton, Rhode Island, Iowa State and Maryland.The first time Duke was a preseason No. 1 was 1978-79 and the most recent was 2010-11.It is always an honor to be ranked No. 1, Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said. We understand that no teams have played a regular season game at this point, so many thinggs can and often do change throughout the course of a college basketball season.dddddddddddd Certainly, were excited that people think highly of our team, and the ACC as a whole.The Atlantic Coast Conference and Big Ten are tied with five ranked teams each while the Big 12 has four. Nine conferences have at least one team ranked in the preseason poll.Duke, which was 19th in last seasons final poll, lost to Oregon in the regional semifinals of the NCAA Tournament. The No. 1 ranking is Dukes 128th, six behind all-time leader UCLA.North Carolina was No. 1 in last seasons preseason Top 25 and the Tar Heels reached the national championship game, losing to Villanova on a 3-pointer at the buzzer.Kansas extended the nations longest consecutive poll streak with its 143rd straight Top 25, a run that started on Feb. 3, 2009. Arizona is next with 79 followed by Iowa State with 57 and Villanova with 55.The first regular-season poll will be Monday, Nov. 14. The first of the top early season matchups will be the following day when Duke faces Kansas and Michigan State plays Kentucky in the State Farm Champions Classic at Madison Square Garden. ' ' '