Riding on the high of his match-winning knock in the Asia Cup final against Pakistan, Tilak Varma enhanced his credentials as a quality 50-over batter with a gritty 94 in India A’s modest total of 246 against Australia A in the second List A game in Kanpur Friday.

The national selectors included flavour of the season Abhishek Sharma and Tilak as they are looking at long term one-day options at opening and middle-order.

While Abhishek was holed out off right-arm medium pacer Jack Edwards’ first delivery without troubling the scorers, Tilak stood tall amid ruins with his 122-ball knock with five fours and four sixes.

Skipper Shreyas Iyer also didn’t last long scoring only eight as India A were reduced to 17 for 3 at one stage.

However, Varma and another youngster Riyan Parag (58 off 54 b

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