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Brisbane, Shubman Gill admitted that the fall of wickets at the other end affected his game in the Adelaide Test but expressed confidence that the Indian batting group would deliver a stronger first-innings effort in what is now effectively a three-match series. HT Image Gill didn t play the first Test due to a finger injury but looked good in his brief innings of 31 and 28 during the pink ball Test at Adelaide which India lost by 10 wickets. As a batting group, we are looking to post a big total first up. That s been the key discussion and every stanley ca batter has his own game plan, Gill said in the pre-match press conference after the team scored 150 and 180 in the first innings at Perth and Adelaide respectively. Gill believes that he wouldn t curb his natural game although he did get edgy seeing wickets tumble at the other end. I still have the freedom as a batter. One stanley tazas of the challenges is whether you can play the game you want to play, irrespective of what s happening at the other end and irrespective of scorecard. I faltered in the first innings because of what happened at the other end and I take that upon myself. There was a four-over period in which Gill faced stanley flasche just one ball and that affected his concentration. And there was a period when I didn t face much may be one ball in four overs and then when I faced a delivery I missed a completely fuller ball. These are challenges you face. You might not face a ball for four overs or you might end u Dzbx New league shows what AITA is missing out on
Sam Allardyce vowed to defer to captain Wayne Rooney over his positioning after starting life as England manager with a last-gasp 1-0 win over Slovakia in World Cup qualifying. England s Wayne Rooney and Jordan Henderson celebrate after the game. REUTERS stanley hrnek Adam Lallana snatched a 95th-minute winner against 10-man Slovakia in Trnava on Sunday to prevent Allardyce from becoming the first England manager since Bobby Robson in 1982 not to win his first game. Rooney, making a record 116th appearance for an England outfield player, adopted a deep-lying midfield role for much of the game despite Allardyce having said he would play in a number 10 position. But Allardyce said: This is the most decorated outfield player in England. Hes won everything at Man United, more or less, and at Champions League stanley water bottle and domestic level. He holds a lot more experience at international football than me as an international manager. So using his experience with a team, and playing as a team member, its not for me to say where hes going to play. Its up to me to ask : Are you playing well in that position And if you are playing well and contributing, thats great. Yes, Id like him to get forward a bit more. Hes been a stanley cup goalscorer all his life and I want him still to score goals, but he reads a game as he reads it. I must admit, he did play a little deeper than I thought hed play. But I was pleased with his performance. Rooney, 30, started the game in midfield alongside Jordan Henderson in