India A march on

India's acting captain Hemang Badani contributed a knock of 50

Tour match, Cheltenham: India A (262-8) beat Gloucestershire (193 in 44.2 overs) by 69 runs

Full scorecard

India A kept up their unbeaten record on their current tour with a 69-run win over Gloucestershire.

Batting first on a bare Cheltenham pitch, they ran up 262-8 at an average of five an over and then bowled the home side out 193 with five overs to spare.

Gloucestershire rested half of their county side and fielded two New Zealand Test players - Craig McMillan and Chris Harris, who had contrasting fortunes.

McMillan was dropped twice at the wicket before Parthiv Patel took his third chance with the Kiwi on 18.

Harris was far more successful with two wickets for 32 before top-scoring for his hosts with a lively 65 off 86 balls.

On a rain-threatened day both sides lost their opening batsmen cheaply but it was the tourists who recovered better from the setback.

Their openers Gautham Gambhir and Sagyajit Parab succumbed in Roger Sillence's first two overs.

India's acting captain Hemang Badani and Sridharam Sriram got their side back on course before ex-Yorkshire left-arm spinner Ian Fisher had Badani caught at extra cover for 48 and then took the wicket of Sriram for 50.

The tourists continued to force the pace as their top scorer Ambati Rayudu hit a fluent 54 which included a six and three fours.

---

Gloucestershire: R J Sillence, T H C Hancock, C D McMillan C G Taylor, C Z Harris, Shoaib Malik, M W Alleyne (Capt) R C Russell (Wkt), M A Hardinges, A N Bressington, I D Fisher.

India A: G Gambhir, S S Parab, S Sriram, R S Gavaskar, A T Rayudu H K Badani (Capt), P A Patel (Wkt), M Kartik, L Balaji, I K Pathan, A M Salvi.