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 Lankan leg-spinner Malinga Bandara.

But Tushar, who played only three Tests before the Bangladesh think-tank realised that the stroke-maker 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.