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Arshdeep Singh Roasts Shashank Singh in Airport-Lounge Clip — IPL 2026

Punjab Kings

1 May 2026

A 38-second clip of Punjab Kings' Arshdeep Singh roasting teammate Shashank Singh in an airport lounge became one of IPL 2026's most-shared off-field moments. The premise was Shashank's run of dropped catches across the season — including the now-notorious drop of KL Rahul on 12, who went on to make 150-plus. Arshdeep, on camera, asks Shashank to demonstrate his catching technique using a coffee cup; the bit lands, both players laugh, and the clip is uploaded by a teammate before the squad has cleared security.

#IPL 2026#Arshdeep Singh#Shashank Singh

🏏Moderate

Shreyas Iyer's Two Over-Rate Fines — PBKS Captain Hit With INR 36 Lakh in IPL 2026

Punjab Kings

April 2026

PBKS captain Shreyas Iyer was fined twice for slow over-rate offences in IPL 2026 — a 12-lakh fine after the GT match and a 24-lakh fine after the CSK match, totalling 36 lakh in personal fines. With the IPL's previous one-match suspension rule scrapped pre-season, neither fine carried a ban; PBKS's other players were each fined 6 lakh or 25 per cent of match fee per offence.

#IPL 2026#Shreyas Iyer#Punjab Kings

😂Mild

Shashank Singh Drops Klaasen at Sweep — PBKS Catching Crisis Continues

Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings

6 May 2026

Shashank Singh's IPL 2026 fielding curse continued at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on 6 May 2026 when he dropped Heinrich Klaasen off Yuzvendra Chahal's bowling — a slog sweep that flew straight to him at the boundary, sat in his hands for a fraction of a second, and slipped out. PBKS fans on social media were unforgiving.

#IPL 2026#Shashank Singh#Heinrich Klaasen

😂Mild

Punjab Kings Drop 16 Catches in 10 Matches — IPL 2026's Joint-Worst Fielding Side

Punjab Kings

6 May 2026

Punjab Kings' 16 dropped catches in 10 matches — joint most in IPL 2026 alongside Chennai Super Kings — has converted the franchise's fielding lapses into a season-long story arc. Shashank Singh, with three drops in a single LSG match alone, has been the public face of the trend; head coach Ricky Ponting has compared the catching slump to a 'virus.'

#IPL 2026#Punjab Kings#PBKS

😂Mild

Ricky Ponting's 'It's Like a Virus' Line on Shashank Singh's Drops — IPL 2026

Punjab Kings

May 2026

PBKS head coach Ricky Ponting summarised his side's fielding crisis in IPL 2026 with two lines that became the season's most-shared coaching quotes: 'It's like a virus. We've put a lot of catches down so far this season,' and the affectionate-exasperated 'It just looks like the ball is following him around everywhere he goes' — directed specifically at Shashank Singh's run of drops.

#IPL 2026#Ricky Ponting#Shashank Singh

😂Mild

Three PBKS Fielders Drop Sitters in One Match — Lockie Ferguson, Connolly, Shashank vs SRH

Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings

6 May 2026

Three different Punjab Kings fielders dropped catches in a single match against Sunrisers Hyderabad on 6 May 2026 at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium — Lockie Ferguson, Aaron Connolly and Shashank Singh — turning a difficult evening into the most public single-match collapse of the season's PBKS fielding crisis.

#IPL 2026#Lockie Ferguson#Aaron Connolly

😂Mild

Shreyas Iyer's 'A Bit Too Much Dropped Catches Today' — IPL 2026 Quote of the Season

Punjab Kings

6 May 2026

PBKS captain Shreyas Iyer's understated post-match line — 'a bit too much dropped catches today' — after Punjab's 6 May 2026 SRH match became the season's most-shared captain quote. The understatement, in the context of three different PBKS fielders dropping catches in a single match, captured the franchise's exhausted resignation about its season-long catching crisis.

#IPL 2026#Shreyas Iyer#PBKS

😂Mild

Heinrich Klaasen's IPL 2026 Lifelines — PBKS Drops Convert Modest Starts to Match-Winning Innings

Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings

May 2026

Heinrich Klaasen's IPL 2026 record against Punjab Kings reads like the index page of a fielding-textbook chapter on dropped catches. He has been put down by PBKS fielders at least three times across two fixtures, with each lifeline converting into a meaningful score. Klaasen's series of low-30s innings extended to 60s and 70s by the time the catches were finally taken — when, indeed, they ever were.

#IPL 2026#Heinrich Klaasen#SRH

😂Mild

Ishan Kishan's PBKS Lifeline at Hyderabad — A Drop, a Sixty, an SRH Win

Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Punjab Kings

6 May 2026

Ishan Kishan was lifelined by a PBKS dropped catch at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on 6 May 2026 and converted the reprieve into a sixty that helped SRH win comfortably. The drop joined the same match's catalogue of three different PBKS fielders putting down catches — the season's most public single-match collapse of the visiting franchise's fielding standards.

#IPL 2026#Ishan Kishan#SRH

🥊Moderate

Bumrah-Hardik Field-Placement Clash — MI vs PBKS, IPL 2026

Mumbai Indians vs Punjab Kings

16 April 2026

Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya and senior bowler Jasprit Bumrah were involved in a visible on-field disagreement over field placements during MI's defeat to Punjab Kings at the Wankhede Stadium on 16 April 2026. The incident, broadcast live, came during PBKS's chase as Prabhsimran Singh — eventually 80 not out and player of the match — was building his innings. After Bumrah dropped a catch from Pandya's bowling, Pandya was filmed reacting angrily towards his senior bowler. The defeat was MI's fourth in a row.

#IPL 2026#Mumbai Indians#Jasprit Bumrah