Twitter reacts to Nair's consistency & Pandey's heroics

04/17/2017

Karun Nair played a Test innings in a T20 which hurt DD's ability to score more runs in the match against KKR. Pathan, surprisingly, and Pandey, not-so-surprisingly, constructed a superb partnership to guide KKR home. The Twitterati continued trolling Nair while praising Pathan and Pandey.

Here are the best tweets:

Is this true? I put in on mute, so can't confirm

This year's Extra Innings T20 is more like a Kitty Party. More gossiping than actually discussing cricket #IPL
— Shubh AggarWall (@shubh_chintak) April 17, 2017

Karun Nair today

Karun Nair is playing a wonderful innings to reclaim him spot in the Test side.#DDvKKR
— Vinayakk (@vinayakkm) April 17, 2017

And the outrage followed

Played the whole over without scoring a run, almost got Rishabh Pant run out and got bowled on the last ball which was a full toss #IPL
— Shubh AggarWall (@shubh_chintak) April 17, 2017

How often does a single player ruin a T20 innings. Nair doing the honours today for Delhi. Surprised that Dravid bats him this high #ipl
— 5Y (@5ytix) April 17, 2017

He got some praise too

Karun Nair has shown some improvement by playing 27 balls in this innings, much better than test series. #DDvKKR
— Abhilash Neelam (@abhilashneelam) April 17, 2017

More Nair stats

Nair faced 22.50% of DD's balls and scored at 4.66 runs per over in that time. The rest of DD scored at 9.29 RPO. #IPL
— Freddie Wilde (@fwildecricket) April 17, 2017

Thankfully for DD, they had Pant

Rishabh Pant last 8 balls:

6, 1, 0, 6, 4, 6, 6, 4

Smashed 26 runs of Umesh Yadav over
— Broken Cricket (@BrokenCricket) April 17, 2017

Which earned him some high praise

Say it as often as you want. This Rishabh Pant is a special batsman. India must take great care in looking after him.
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) April 17, 2017

Good question

Not sure if Delhi Daredevils or Rahul Dravid Academy of Developing T20 Batsmen
— Ramesh (@rmshnt27) April 17, 2017

True this

Dear #KKR fans you have no right to Talk about Trent Boult Bowling & his economy

Scold @KKRiders fielder's for their worse fielding #DDvKKR
— Gopi RTFan (@RTFanzz) April 17, 2017

Of course, that's what Gambhir would say

Tactical drop from KKR to let Karun Nair bat
— Shubh AggarWall (@shubh_chintak) April 17, 2017

You can't get more unlucky than this

What an unfortunate last over for Coulter-Nile:

OUT

One

Dropped

One

Dropped

Ball Clipped the stump bail didn't come off
— Broken Cricket (@BrokenCricket) April 17, 2017

WATCH | Nathan Coulter-Nile denied three wickets in one over

The value of Zaheer Khan

Most wickets in first 6 overs in IPL:

50 ZAHEER

39 Dhawal, Nehra

38 Praveen#DDvKKR
— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) April 17, 2017

The Yusuf Pathan paradox

Only Yusuf Pathan can be in touch & out of touch at the same time. LEGEND! #KKR
— BOBBEY (@iamsrktheking) April 17, 2017

Never thought I'd see an responsible yusuf pathan's innings

Today I just did

No No No, this must not be what they meant #AcheDin #DDvKKR
— 1'm (@MON1SH) April 17, 2017

Not from today, but GOLD!

Q. What is common between Dermi Cool advertisement & Yusuf Pathan?

A. They both appears only during summers & disappears after that.
— Smoking Skills (@SmokingSkills_) April 7, 2017

This is sure to create some buzz