Date-stamped : 01 May97 - 06:16 Brown sets a perfect pace By David Green at Bristol Surrey (282-7) bt Gloucester-shire (280-7) by 3 wkts SURREY`S batsmen, aggressively led by Alistair Brown with a 49-ball 66, and Ben Hollioake (69), proved too strong for Gloucestershire`s bowlers, reaching a formidable target of 281 with four balls and three wickets to spare. Gloucestershire, having set a competition record third- wicket stand of 169 through Gold Award winner Rob Cunliffe (113) and Shaun Young (67), neither bowled nor fielded well enough, lives being given to Ben and Adam Hollioake and Nadim Shahid. Surrey, and England, had a scare when Alec Stewart handed the gloves to Shahid in the 31st over, having hurt the little finger of his left hand. He will miss tomorrow`s match against the British Universities but there is no fracture. Stewart moved from No 3 to open after Mark Butcher strained a groin while fielding, but he was largely an onlooker as Brown struck the ball to all parts through and over the fielders. When Stewart drove Jon Lewis to extra cover the score was 48, with Brown on 40. When Brown played inside one from Martyn Ball he had hit 12 fours and Surrey were flying. Ben Hollioake took up the running. Undeterred by Graham Thorpe`s failure, he struck the ball imperiously, hoisting Young over square leg for six and also hitting eight fours before being unluckily stumped off Jack Russell`s pads. Adam Hollioake weighed in with some thumping hits and though Young bowled Shahid and Hollioake was run out when Mike Smith deflected a straight drive into the bowler`s stumps, Chris Lewis saw Surrey home with confidence. Earlier, Gloucestershire lost Monte Lynch, lbw to the second ball of Lewis`s hostile but unlucky opening spell and when Nick Trainor followed a Martin Bicknell outswinger in the seventh over Gloucestershire were a wobbly 27 for two. Cunliffe and Young ran ones and twos avidly and brought Gloucestershire back into the match, though neither was completely at ease against early movement in the air and off the pitch. Cunliffe, who might have gone early on to Lewis had Surrey posted an orthodox slip, favoured the cut and off drive but played strokes all round the wicket. He faced 144 balls, hitting 10 fours. Young, dropped at deep midwicket by Lewis off Adam Hollioake when 31, found the boundary infrequently but played with the typical left-hander`s dexterity off his legs and later on began to time the ball better on the off side. A Ben Hollioake yorker finally ended the partnership but Russell put on 43 in seven overs with Cunliffe before running him out on the third run as Gloucestershire scrambled 56 from their last five overs. Source :: The Electronic Telegraph (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/) Contributed by The Management (help@cricinfo.com)