Ex-India cricketer Hemang Badani said India head coach Gautam Gambhir should have a chat with Rishabh Pant before the five-match Test series against England. "[Gambhir should] say, 'Pant play your game [and] don't think too hard about...vice captaincy,'" Badani added. "Team management...should give Pant the freedom to go and bat with utmost positivity and not hold him back," he stated.