Sachin Tendulkar, in a post on X, said he noticed that India captain Shubman Gill and vice-captain Rishabh Pant spoke in Hindi during spinner Shoaib Bashir's spell during India's first innings in Leeds Test. "It wasn’t just casual talk. They were playing mind games with the bowler, trying to disrupt his rhythm," he added. Notably, Bashir is of Pakistani origin.