{"id":13807,"date":"2026-04-25T11:16:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T11:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=13807"},"modified":"2026-04-25T11:16:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T11:16:41","slug":"130512964-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=13807","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026: Shashank Singh&#8217;s costly drop of KL Rahul leaves Ricky Ponting fuming, Preity Zinta stunned | Cricket News &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130513139,imgsize-41536,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/kl-rahul-shashank-2504-s.jpg\" alt=\"IPL 2026: Shashank Singh's costly drop of KL Rahul leaves Ricky Ponting fuming, Preity Zinta stunned\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Punjab Kings batter <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/shashank-singh\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Shashank Singh<\/a> found himself at the centre of another fielding lapse, this time during the IPL 2026 clash between Delhi Capitals and Punjab Kings at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi on Saturday.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>Shashank dropped a straightforward catch of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/kl-rahul\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">KL Rahul<\/a> off Arshdeep Singh\u2019s bowling in the third over of the innings.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>The Punjab fielder, who had also put down multiple chances in the previous match against Lucknow Super Giants, grassed a sitter at deep square leg. KL Rahul pulled a short delivery from Arshdeep straight towards the fielder, but the chance was spilled and the ball raced away to the boundary.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>The moment left Arshdeep Singh visibly disappointed, while Punjab Kings co-owner <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/preity-zinta\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Preity Zinta<\/a> was also seen reacting in frustration.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>The broadcast camera also cut to head coach <!-- -->Ricky Ponting<!-- --> in the dugout, where he appeared visibly upset with his hands on his head after the missed opportunity.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>Rahul, who was dropped on 12 by Shashank, made full use of the reprieve and kept the momentum going, racing to a half-century off just 26 balls.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"24\"\/>This was also the fourth instance of KL Rahul scoring 35 or more runs off the first 15 balls of an IPL innings, with his previous such knocks coming twice in 2018 and once in 2019.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"27\"\/>Delhi Capitals captain Axar Patel won the toss and elected to bat against table toppers Punjab Kings.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"29\"\/>The hosts, who are at number six in the table, are unchanged from their previous outing and so are Punjab Kings, who are perched atop with five wins from six matches.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"31\"\/>Teams:<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"33\"\/>Delhi Capitals: Axar Patel (C), KL Rahul, Pathum Nissanka, Sameer Rizvi, Nitish Rana, Tristan Stubbs, David Miller, Lungi Ngidi, Kuldeep Yadav, T Natarajan, and Mukesh Kumar.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"35\"\/>Punjab Kings: Shreyas Iyer (C), Prabhsimran Singh, Priyansh Arya, Cooper Connolly, Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Jansen, Xavier Bartlett, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Arshdeep Singh, and Yuzvendra Chahal. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"37\"\/><\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2026\/shashank-singhs-costly-drop-of-kl-rahul-leaves-ricky-ponting-fuming-preity-zinta-stunned\/articleshow\/130512964.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Punjab Kings batter Shashank Singh found himself at the centre of another fielding&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[32556,17738,4412,21211,32781,19199,3896,32780],"class_list":["post-13807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dc-vs-pbks","tag-delhi-capitals","tag-ipl-2026","tag-kl-rahul","tag-preity-zinta","tag-punjab-kings","tag-ricky-ponting","tag-shashank-singh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}