Seven-wicket win for India

After skipper Amit Pagnis won the toss and elected to field, seamer Laxmi Rattan Shukla struck two vital blows to get rid of opener Fraser Watts and Ayaz Gul conceding only 11 runs off seven overs.

Shukla’s good work was followed up by spin trio of offies Harbhajan Singh (2-16) and Virender Sehwag (3-4) and left-arm Shivsagar Singh (3-15) to dismiss the Scots for 103 in 48 overs. Their highest scorer was Neil Millar with 21.

The early exit of opener Pagnis failed to ruffle the Indians who attained the target in 26.3 overs losing the wickets also of Reetinder Sodhi (25) and Sehwag (10). Mohammad Kaif and V Saravanan remained unbeaten with 48 and 6.

Playing in the Gavaskar group, India had lost their opening match to hosts South Africa by four wickets.

Centuries were scored in four of the eight matches played in various centres across South Africa yesterday, as the traditional cricketing nations continued to dominate the tournament.

For the hosts, John Kent put together an attacking 102 to help them to an 80-run victory over Kenya at The Oval in Soweto.

Kenya’s defeat means they have to upset India if they are to maintain further interest in the tournament.

Brief ScoresScotland 103 in 48 overs (Millar 21; S Singh 3-15; Sehwag 3-4) lost to India 104 in 26.3 overs (Reetinder Sodhi 25, Mohammed 48 n.o.) by seven wickets

Zimbabwe 290-8 (Vermeulen 110, Malloch-Brown 62; Dikana 3-41) bt Papua New Guinea 143 in 39 overs (Iga 30; Nkala 4-20; Mutendera 5-25) by 147 runs

New Zealand 278-8 (Kelly 88, Ingram 82; Khan 3-57) bt Bangladesh 179 in 46.3 overs (Rokon 40, Rahman 33; West 3-33; Martin 3-26) by 99 runs

Namibia 161-9 (Kotze 38, Viljoen 33; Franks 3-19) lost to England 162-7 in 33.4 overs (Shah 40, Key 35; Schltz 5-29) by three wickets

Ireland 159-9 (Carruthers 35, Hosford 33; Bandara 2-24) lost to Sri Lanka 159-8 in 48 overs (Fernando 49, Zoysa 31 n.o; Spelman 2-29) by two wickets.