Overview

• - Pakistan’s defence minister Khawaja Asif endorsed Rauf’s on-field ‘6-0’ sign on X, writing that India would not forget it and telling the pacer to keep it up.
• - India fielding coach Ryan ten Doeschate acknowledged pressure on players and said India was proud of its conduct, noting he saw Rauf’s actions; no formal disciplinary step is cited in the coverage.
• - Independent fact-checks refuted viral posts claiming Rauf’s wife, Muzna Masood Malik, was in an accident in Islamabad, identifying the claim as false.
• - Malik had earlier shared, then deleted, an Instagram Story showing Rauf making the ‘6-0’ sign with the caption, “Lost the match but won the battle.”
• - Match footage shows Rauf making a crashing-plane motion and the ‘6-0’ gesture and exchanging words with Abhishek Sharma and Shubman Gill, with umpires intervening, as media linked the signal to an unverified military claim.