{"id":551413,"date":"2026-04-26T09:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T09:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/551413\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T09:38:08","slug":"karun-nairs-old-post-resurfaces-after-dc-stars-horror-show-in-field-vs-pbks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/551413\/","title":{"rendered":"Karun Nair&#8217;s Old Post Resurfaces After DC Star&#8217;s Horror Show In Field vs PBKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                &#13;<br \/>\n                                                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>Delhi Capitals batter <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.ndtv.com\/cricket\/players\/1708-karun-nair-playerprofile\" title=\"Karun Nair\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Karun Nair<\/a> was on the receiving end of brutal trolling after dropping two regulation catches of Punjab Kings captain <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.ndtv.com\/cricket\/players\/64384-shreyas-santosh-iyer-playerprofile\" title=\"Shreyas Iyer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shreyas Iyer<\/a>, costing his side dearly in a high-scoring IPL 2026 clash. In the space of just four deliveries, Karun dropped Shreyas on 28 at long-off, and again on 35 at long-on, inadvertently allowing PBKS to chase a record 265 on a docile track. Karun&#8217;s dropped catches proved costly, as Shreyas went on to smash an unbeaten 71 off just 36 balls.<\/p>\n<p>Following Karun&#8217;s horror show at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, fans mocked the veteran batter by resurfacing an old, emotional post.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2022, Karun had famously tweeted: &#8220;Dear cricket, give me one more chance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how internet reacted:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;GIVE ME ONE MORE CHANCE&#8221; &#8211; KARUN NAIR&#8217;S HEARTBREAKING CONFESSION<\/p>\n<p>Karun Nair said &#8211; &#8220;Dear Cricket, just give me one more chance!&#8221; After the DC horror show, this old post is viral again. From a triple century to being ignored, his mind is in total pain! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P9S1QfohI4\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/P9S1QfohI4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 Sam (@Cricsam01) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cricsam01\/status\/2048235019542593711?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 26, 2026<\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dear Cricket<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nPlease don&#8217;t give anymore chances to Karun Nair.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/dcvspbks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#dcvspbks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 CAPTAIN (@piyushkulkarn18) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/piyushkulkarn18\/status\/2048094612733186269?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 25, 2026<\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Karun Nair once begged: &#8216;Dear Cricket, give me one more chance&#8217; Cricket gave him chance after chance. Now it&#8217;s Tata Bye Bye <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0q3IE6gK1s\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/0q3IE6gK1s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y6Dxb0DcYC\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/y6Dxb0DcYC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 Shakur Surve (@Shakurs17) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shakurs17\/status\/2048058545074237735?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 25, 2026<\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dear Cricket please don&#8217;t give chance to Karun Nair<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 Rohan007 (@rx07meme) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rx07meme\/status\/2048051007981330657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the first incident, Shreyas mistimed a shot off <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.ndtv.com\/cricket\/players\/122350-vipraj-nigam-playerprofile\" title=\"Vipraj Nigam\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vipraj Nigam<\/a> toward long-off. Karun settled under the ball but was unable to hold on.<\/p>\n<p>Four balls later, Shreyas miscued once again-this time off a delivery from <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.ndtv.com\/cricket\/players\/63624-kuldeep-yadav-playerprofile\" title=\"Kuldeep Yadav\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kuldeep Yadav<\/a>-but Karun spilled the chance yet again.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Shreyas has been sensational for PBKS this season, scoring 279 runs in seven matches and six innings at an average of 69.75 and a strike rate of 186.00, including four fifties and a best score of 71*.<\/p>\n<p>Since joining the franchise last year, he has made 886 runs in 24 matches and 23 innings at an average of 55.18 and a strike rate of 178.38, including 10 fifties, marking an era of transformation for his T20 game.<\/p>\n<p>(With ANI Inputs)<\/p>\n<p>    &#13;<br \/>\n            Featured Video Of The Day&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n            IPL 2026 News | RCB Outplay CSK For 2nd Win On Trot, Ruturaj Gaikwad &amp; Co Suffer 3rd Loss&#13;\n        <\/p>\n<p>Topics mentioned in this article <\/p>\n<p>                                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; Delhi Capitals batter Karun Nair was on the receiving end of brutal trolling after dropping two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,157385,57488,102057,189608,57487,179121,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-551413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-cricket-ndtv-sports","10":"tag-delhi-capitals","11":"tag-indian-premier-league-2026","12":"tag-karun-kaladharan-nair","13":"tag-punjab-kings","14":"tag-shreyas-santosh-iyer","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}