DROITWICH Spa's Steve Walsh led the Worcestershire League to a 125-run victory over their Warwickshire counterparts at Halesowen.

After being put into bat on a soft pitch, the Bromyard openers Ashley Bullock and Oliver Bailey put on 54 runs in 13 overs and Bailey went on to score 34.

Useful additional contributions, before and after a short break for rain, were made by Kevin Golder, of Barnards Green, (21) and Damon Gariff, of Droitwich, (27) which saw the score stand at 118-5 after 34 overs of the scheduled 44.

The tempo of the innings was then dramatically increased as Danny Rees, of Worcester Nomads, scored 38 in a frenetic seven overs in which he and Paul Pickering, of Romsley and Hunnington, (65) added 61 runs for the sixth wicket.

Pickering continued to plunder runs off the tiring Warwickshire attack, taking 20 off the first four balls of the penultimate over and hoisting the total to a very respectable 235 all out.

For Warwickshire, A Hussain took 3-35 and R Rice 3-33, both in nine overs.

When Warwickshire batted, they found Gariff (1-20) and Oliver Hill, of Stourbridge, (1-16) difficult to dominate and wickets fell steadily to Neville Mason, of Redditch (2-40) and Ben Schiffmann, of Worcester Nomads, who had the best figures of 3-16 in seven overs.

Finally, in the 36th over, Jon Summers, of Astwood Bank, wrapped up the innings with 2-14 from eight overs to seal victory. Only Steve Marillier (23) and Steve Swaffield (21) got past 20 for Warwickshire.