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Imran inspires Bangladesh A

SPORTS REPORTER
Tushar Imran shrugged off the tag as an one-day specialist with a career-best 119 to help Bangladesh A conjure up a small yet significant 19-run first-innings lead against Glouces-tershire on the second day of their three-day fixture at Bristol yesterday.
The 22-year-old could not think of a better time to celebrate his fourth first-class ton and his first against an English county after a not so fruitful tour in England with the senior team last month.
His 119 which surpasses his previous best of 109 not out gave plenty of food for thought for the national selectors, who kept him in the provisional list of 22 for the forthcoming tour of Sri Lanka in August-September.
He reached his 100 off 157 balls that included 17 boundaries and a six. Tushar was the eighth batsmen out in the Bangladesh innings but not before the visitors had taken a four-run lead. Bangladesh A eventually finished on 251.
Gloucestershire were 48-1 at tea with young paceman Shahadat Hossain enjoying an early success like he did in the first innings. Shahadat clean bowled opener Kadeer Ali for one.
But Tushar hogged the spotlight on the second day.
Resuming on 36, the dashing right-hander was also involved in a spectacular rebuilding operation with national discard Alok Kapali. The pair added 122 runs for the fourth wicket after the second string national side had slumped to 3-29 chasing the home sides' first innings total of 232 on the opening day.
Kapali, who has been out of the national team for quite sometime, showed plenty of signs of hitting back to form with a measured 59 off 105 balls before being adjudged leg before off Gloucestershire's Sri Lankanleg-spinner Malinga Bandara.
But Tushar, who played only three Tests before the Bangladesh think-tank realised that the strokemaker from Jessore has little future in the longer version of the game with a poor average of 8, showed plenty of it during his 243-minute
vigil at the crease.
Picked in the one-day squad against England after a gap of more than a year the elegant right-hander hammered 19 fours in his 189-ball innings.
SCOREBOARD
Scoreboard at tea on the second day of the three-day match between Bangladesh A and Gloucestershire at Bristol on Thursday:
GLOUCESTERSHIRE: First
innings 232 all out in 58.1 overs
(Snell 83 n o, Averis 33, Lewis 47; Russel 2-46, Shahadat 3-73, Jubair 3-37).
BANGLADESH A: First innings (overnight 98 for 3)
Nafees c Gidman b Averis 5
Iqbal lbw b Lewis 4
Imran c sub b Lewis 119
Nazimuddin c Adshead b Averis 5 Kapali lbw b Bandara 59
Rahim lbw b Rudge 3
Mushfiqur c Fisher b Rudge 4
Russel c Gidman b Rudge 5
Shahadatnot out 19
Jubair b Fisher 3
Enamul jr c Snell b Lewis 1
Extras: (b-1, lb-11, nb-12) 24
Total: (All out in 72 overs) 251
Fall of wkts: 1-10, 2-10, 3-29, 4-151, 5-167, 6-189, 7-195, 8-238, 9-244, 10-251.
Bowler O M R W
Lewis 17 3 75 3
Averis 12 2 32 2
Rudge 12 3 46 3
Bandara 21 5 61 1
Fisher 10 1 25 1
GLOUCESTERSHIRE: Second
innings
Weston not out 21 Kadeer b Shahadat 1
Fisher not out 18
Extras: (lb-4, w-3, nb-1) 8
Total: (For 1wkt in 14 overs) 48
To bat: Pearson, Gidman, Adshead, Snell, Bandara, Lewis, Averis, Rudge. Fall of wkt: 1-12.
Bowler O M R W
Russel 5 1 21 0
Shahadat 5 0 15 1
Enamul jr 2 1 1 0
Jubair 2 0 7 0
Toss: Bangladesh A