Ex-India batter Navjot Singh Sidhu, comparing India's Test win at The Oval to a film, said, "It was not a Shah Rukh Khan film." "There was no one hero in this film...There were side heroes who were no less than a hero," he added. Sidhu praised the contributions of Mohammed Siraj, Shubman Gill, Karun Nair, Washington Sundar and Dhruv Jurel.