India's white ball vice-captain Shubman Gill is aiming to be an all format player and feels new head coach Gautam Gambhir's clarity of thought will help him in his endeavour.

Gill will be deputy to Suryakumar Yadav in the T20I and ODI series against Sri Lanka, beginning in Pallekele on Saturday. The opener couldn't make the XV which won the T20 World Cup in the West Indies last month.

"We are the world champions and we will look to play accordingly, and, hopefully, we will have more success under the new coaching staff. This is the first time I am working with him (Gambhir)," Gill said during a news conference on Thursday.

"But during those two net sessions, his intent and communication have been very clear. He is very clear about which player he wants to work with at a particular time and on which areas he wants to work with him."

While his eventual goal is to bring more success to the team, Gill also wanted to firmly establish himself as an all-format batsman across the conditions.

"During the matches before the T20 World Cup, I could not perform to the level that I was expecting from myself.

"In the upcoming cycle where we will play 30-40 T20Is, I will try to improve my performance as a batsman," he said.

But the 24-year-old has set his eyes on the five-match Test tour to Australia later in the year and on the subsequent Champions Trophy.

"We are playing some 10 Tests before January, and I am looking forward to it, especially five of them in Australia. After that we are playing the Champions Trophy which would be really exciting.

"But these six matches (3 T20Is and 3 ODIs) are very crucial riding into the Test matches," he said.