He was mentally switched off: Ashwin backs Karun after he drops Shreyas twice

Ravichandran Ashwin defended Karun Nair after he dropped Shreyas Iyer twice in DC-PBKS IPL 2026 match. "Karun was mentally 'switched off'...He might've been fatigued from training...For a substitute to suddenly step into the intensity of the game, these things can happen," he said. Ashwin added DC should have kept Tristan Stubbs at long-on/long-off instead of making him KL Rahul's substitute.