{"id":25323,"date":"2025-07-27T05:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T05:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25323\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T05:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T05:58:08","slug":"microphone-blunder-nasser-hussain-roasts-dinesh-karthik-on-air-during-old-trafford-test-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/25323\/","title":{"rendered":"Microphone blunder! Nasser Hussain roasts Dinesh Karthik on-air during Old Trafford Test | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/122930853.jpg\" alt=\"Microphone blunder! Nasser Hussain roasts Dinesh Karthik on-air during Old Trafford Test\" title=\"Nasser Hussain and Dinesh Karthik \" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Nasser Hussain and Dinesh Karthik  Former England captain <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/nasser-hussain\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nasser Hussain<\/a> couldn\u2019t resist poking fun at fellow Sky Sports commentator <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/dinesh-karthik\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dinesh Karthik<\/a> after a light-hearted on-air blunder during Day 4 of the fourth Test at Old Trafford.Hussain took a playful dig at Karthik for forgetting his microphone during a tea break chat with Ian Ward.<\/p>\n<p>Bombay Sport Exchange: FanCode&#8217;s Yannick Colaco on toxic fan wars, India&#8217;s sports ecosystem<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDinesh Karthik, it\u2019s been a long day and you\u2019re new to this commentary gig. But I\u2019d say your microphone is equally important,\u201d Hussain said.He then turned his humour toward his former teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/michael-atherton\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Atherton<\/a>, adding, \u201cDon\u2019t worry, happens to the best. Atherton once tried to commentate using a coffee cup.\u201dKarthik, who retired from all forms of cricket in 2024, has transitioned into commentary and coaching\u2014now serving as Royal Challengers Bengaluru\u2019s batting coach for IPL 2025.On the field, India clawed their way back after a nightmare start to the second innings, when Chris Woakes dismissed both <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/yashasvi-jaiswal\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yashasvi Jaiswal<\/a> and Sai Sudharsan in the opening over.From 0\/2, Shubman Gill (78*) and KL Rahul (87*) steadied the innings with an unbroken 174-run stand for the third wicket.India began their innings trailing by a hefty 311 runs after England racked up a massive 669, powered by <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/ben-stokes\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Stokes<\/a>\u2019 commanding 141 off 198 balls\u2014his 14th Test century.India reached 174 for 2 at stumps\u2014still 137 runs behind.Ravindra Jadeja was India\u2019s most effective bowler, finishing with four wickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nasser Hussain and Dinesh Karthik Former England captain Nasser Hussain couldn\u2019t resist poking fun at fellow Sky Sports&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,2129,740,8468,2863,10538,24774,24773,10013,85,19609],"class_list":{"0":"post-25323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-ben-stokes","11":"tag-cricket","12":"tag-dinesh-karthik","13":"tag-ind-vs-eng","14":"tag-india-vs-england","15":"tag-michael-atherton","16":"tag-nasser-hussain","17":"tag-old-trafford-test","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-yashasvi-jaiswal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}