Warwickshire's Jonathan Trott makes light of Worcestershire target

Warwickshire showed a distinct lack of neighbourliness last night, highlighting the gap in quality between the Midlands team second in the North Group and the one in the basement after four consecutive defeats. Jonathan Trott, smarting at failing to make England's limited-overs ranks, rubbed in the disparity by cruising to an unbeaten 72 from 54 balls in front of a poor crowd which grew thinner and thinner as the World Cup kick-off in Cape Town approached. With 44 not out from Darren Maddy, Warwickshire's nine-wicket win came with the cushion of 22 balls to spare. Worcester had moved the start forward to avoid a clash with the football but on the evidence of New Road last night a few difficult weeks could lie ahead for cricket's money-spinning competition. Worcestershire got off to a shocking start as their new boy Sanath Jayasuriya survived only two deliveries as the home side lost three wickets getting through two overs. Jayasuriya is here for a minimum of eight matches, during which time he will celebrate his 41st birthday and will get better. Last night though, celebrations were a long way off. With the clouds low and a few umbrellas anticipating rain, Jayasuriya looked as comfortable as any man who was sitting in the Sri Lankan parliament at the start of the week and had just a couple of nets to get used to conditions alongside the Severn. He tickled a couple of singles, then completely mistimed the final ball of Neil Carter's opening over, lobbing to Chris Woakes at short mid-wicket. However, the veteran of so many Sri Lankan thrillers had barely dragged himself to the pavilion when Woakes sent him Moeen Ali and Alexei Kervezee for company. Ali angled his bat, only to feather to the keeper, and Kervezee, having timed a cover-driven four, tried something more extravagant and lost middle and off next ball, leaving Phil Jaques with a mess on his hands at 10 for three. At 50 for three the Australian and local boy, Daryl Mitchell, looked to be doing a decent job but then Mitchell tried something similar to Ali with the same results and, with the score still on 50, Jaques got a snorter from Imran Tahir to become the wicketkeeper Tim Ambrose's third victim in nine overs. From then on Tahir and Ant Botha spun a web around Worcester, the only resistance coming from another local boy, the Sutton Coldfield-born Jack Manuel, playing only his third Twenty20 game. The 19-year-old, who was not born when Jayasuriya made his international debut, hit 31 off 26 deliveries, including the only six of a sad innings. Meanwhile at The Oval, Surrey 's Andrew Symonds rediscovered the form of his Australia heyday with a brutal 62 from 32 balls in a rain-ruined game against his former county Kent . Batting first on a gloomy evening after Kent won the toss, Surrey found themselves four down after 31 balls and with only 35 on the board as Darren Stevens took three for 17. They were five down when Younis Khan also went cheaply but Symonds marched in to spark Surrey's fightback with a show of pyrotechnics as he and Stewart Walters added 95 inside 10.4 overs for the fifth wicket. Symonds smashed seven sixes, two one-handed off the bowling of James Tredwell, his fun was finally ended when he was yorked by Azhar Mahmood. Surrey closed on 150 for seven and Kent were struggling immediately in reply as the openers Rob Key and Martin van Jaarsveld were both needlessly run out and Symonds dismissed Geraint Jones. The visitors were on 81 for five after 12.5 overs when the rain arrived, leaving Surrey as victors by 15 runs on the Duckworth/Lewis method. Sussex remain in control of the South Group after a nine-wicket win over Hampshire at Hove as Murray Goodwin smashed 76 from 35 balls and Brendon McCullum 59 from 33. Zander de Bruyn stole the show at Taunton, his 95 not out guiding Somerset to overhaul Gloucestershire 's imposing 199 for eight. De Bruyn put on 100 in seven overs with Keiron Pollard, who hit 54, as Somerset made light work of reaching 200 from 18.5 overs for the loss of only four wickets. In the North Group Durham strolled to a six-wicket success over Yorkshire at the Riverside, with Dale Benkenstein's unbeaten 57 guiding his side past the visitors' 131 for eight with almost five overs to spare. And Northamptonshire won a game reduced to 18 overs against Leicestershire at Grace Road as half-centuries from Chaminda Vaas, promoted to pinch-hitting opener, and Nicky Boje steered them to a 10-run success.