Cricketer Shubman Gill dismisses reports of having a crush on Rashmika Mandanna

However, before Rashmika could react, Shubman Gill himself dismissed the claim, stating that he has no inkling about the ‘media interaction’. Replying on the post, he wrote, “Which media interaction was this, that I myself don’t know anything about .”

Shubman Gill’s reply on the post that claimed he named Rashmika Mandanna as his crush.

Rumours of the Sara Ali Khan and Shubman Gill dating began last year in August, after they were spotted by a fan at a restaurant. The short video, originally shared on TikTok, showed a woman saying that she just ‘saw Sara at Bastian’. More recently, the two were spotted exiting the same hotel in New Delhi, and later spotted sitting next to each other aboard a flight.

The Indian star cricketer had further fuelled the fire by commenting on the speculation. In an appearance on the Punjabi chat show Dil Diyan Gallan, hosted by Sonam Bajwa, he was asked if he is indeed dating Sara. With a shy smile, he answered, “May be.” When Sonam egged him on, and asked, “Sara ka sara sach bolo (Tell the whole truth),” he replied, “Sara da sara sach bol diya (I have told the truth). May be, maybe not.” When he was asked to name the fittest actor in Bollywood, he had also replied, “Sara.”

Sara was previously rumoured to be dating actor Kartik Aaryan, while Shubman was said to be in a relationship with Sara Tendulkar, the daughter of cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar.