Shubman Gill: Coach Gambhir gave this advice to Shubman Gill, the captain revealed; said- I was struggling in the beginning..

Indian Test team captain Shubman Gill, after playing a brilliant innings, revealed that he was advised by head coach Gautam Gambhir, which helped him. On the strength of Gill's double century, India managed to score big in the first innings of the second Test match against England. Gill scored 269 runs. This is the highest score of an Indian captain in Tests. On the strength of Gill's brilliant innings, India scored 587 runs in the first innings.

Gill was struggling to hit boundaries.

After the brilliant innings, Gill told how he was struggling to score runs in the beginning, and he was not able to hit boundaries regularly. Gill said that he had talked to Gambhir about this, and he told the coach that whenever he is playing shots, he is getting fielders deployed. On this, Gambhir told Gill to stay at the crease so that runs will be scored automatically.

Gill said, When I came to bat on the first day, I was trying to adapt myself to the match. After playing 100 balls, I was on 35-40 runs around the tea break. I went to the dressing room and told Gambhir bhai that I am not able to get boundaries, and fielders are deployed everywhere. He told me to just stay at the crease.

Gill wants to create more opportunities in the series.

It is interesting to see the way Gill is using his batting technique in the current series. Gill started focusing on red ball cricket during the IPL 2025 season itself. Gill said that he was working hard on focusing and wants to create more opportunities in the series. Gill said that at the end of the IPL, I worked on my technique. I worked on the initial movement and stance. I was batting well, but was getting out after scoring 30-40 runs, so I just want to enjoy my batting. I worked hard and decided that I would try to create more opportunities in the series.

Gill said - It is not easy to adapt from T20 to Test
Gill admitted that it is not easy to adapt from T20 to Test format, and he started working on the mindset. Gill told that he started preparing for the series from IPL 2025 itself. Gill said that coming from T20 to red ball format is a difficult task. You have to work on your mindset, but for the Test, I started preparing from IPL itself.

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