Marcus Trescothick reported no ill-effects after joining his Somerset team-mates in India – his first overseas cricket trip in three years.

Just hours after getting off the plane, the former England star captained the Sabres in a 98-run win over a local Hyderabad XI – Somerset's final warm-up before they start the Champions League.

Trescothick made a duck but was happy to have had a successful journey.

His previous attempt to travel overseas with Somerset saw him abort at Heathrow airport in 2008 in a recurrence of the stress-related illness that ended his international career.

He said: "The journey went as well as it could have done. I didn't have any great problem at the airport and I was extremely well looked after.

"I never kidded myself that this trip would be easy and I have had a one or two anxious spells already. But I have tried and trusted methods of dealing with them, which I shall be sticking to, and at the moment I feel fine."

Trescothick fell to the third ball of his innings, but Arul Suppiah continued his brilliant run of form by cracking 67 off 34 balls, while Zander de Bruyn made 41 before Pete Trego finished the innings with 63 from 36 deliveries.

In reply the hosts made just 121-8 as Charl Willoughby and Steffan Jones claimed three wickets apiece.

Somerset CCC start their Champions League Group A fixtures by taking on Deccan Chargers tomorrow afternoon.