Reacting to Rishabh Pant's "If I go to auction, will I be sold or not and for how much?" tweet posted in October, Aakash Chopra remarked, "Why'd you ask that...Rishabh?" He added, "That was...hint that all isn't well in Delhi's heavenly abode." Aakash's remark came after Pant recently refuted Sunil Gavaskar's claim that he might've left DC over fee disagreement.