STEPHEN Moore and Vikram Solanki again shared in a century partnership in the C&G Trophy as Worcestershire registered a comfortable 58-run win against Warwickshire at Edgbaston.

Having put on 108 in a defeat at Derby, the second-wicket pair reaped full reward for a stand of 111 from only 18 overs in front of a sun-basking crowd of around 4,000.

Worcestershire's middle or-der was then strangled by debutant spinner Nick James, who did not concede a boundary in 10 overs, but a total of 267 was more than enough when Warwickshire's recently suspect batting line-up collapsed for 209.

Former England opener Nick Knight was leg-before to Zaheer Khan's second ball in the opening over, and though Jim Troughton counter-attacked with nine fours and a six in his 58, the slide set in as soon as Zaheer bowled Neil Carter for 32 after a stand of 77 in 11 overs.

Worcestershire's slow bow-lers then took control.

Gareth Batty (3-22) and Ray Price (2-26) did so well that Solanki was encouraged to return to the off-spinning art that he gave up all too quickly after taking 10 wickets in a County Championship match 10 years ago.

Worcestershire's captain bow-led eight overs for 26 runs after Batty had made the breakthrough when Trough-ton failed to clear Price on the square leg fence.

Batty's guile was too much for Ian Westwood and Ben Smith ran out Jonathan Trott before Price got to work.

Dougie Brown was lbw after making little impact and the slow left-armer won a battle of former Zimbabwean Test players by bowling Heath Streak.

With Warwickshire's in-nings in ruins at 132-7, James underlined his all-round po-tential by scoring at a run-a-ball for 30 out of 54 in eight overs with Tony Frost (30). They were caught in the deep before Batty came back to take the last wicket.

A left-arm spinner in the England Under-19 team, Ja-mes began the season way down Warwickshire's bowling list.

But the first-team door opened with injuries to Ashley Giles and Daniel Vettori, and now Alex Loudon's selection for the England one-day squad.

Worcestershire were steaming along until the 19-year-old began his spell of 1-23.

At first he created pressure, which Troughton was able to exploit in dismissing Solanki (60 from 55 balls) and Moore, who made 80 to surpass his best score in the competition for the second match in a row.

With James bowling Smith for 24, Worcestershire lost their way. Even Graeme Hick was relatively subdued in reaching 34 while eight wickets went down for 103 in the last 20 overs.

Young paceman James Anyon claimed three of those in quick succession and both Price and Zaheer were run out in the final over.