Harlequins: (10) 10 Try: Keogh Con: Staunton Pen: Staunton Bath: (8) 18 Tries: Lewitt, Higgins Con: Barkley Pen: Barkley Drop Goal: Malone

Trailing 10-3 after 25 minutes, Bath kept the Quins off the scoresheet for the rest of the match - Andrew Higgins getting the decisive try on 65 minutes.

Quins led through Simon Keogh's try but Bath substitute Keiron Lewitt scored with his first touch in Premiership rugby to make it 10-8 at the interval.

Bath edged ahead through Chris Malone's drop goal before Lee Best fed Higgins down the right.

It was the 1,000th match of the Zurich Premiership, Bath having lost the very first fixture to Newcastle in August 1997.

Bath moved ahead with a fifth-minute penalty from Olly Barkley, who was switched to inside centre with fly-half Malone fit-again.

Jeremy Staunton replied in kind three minutes later after Bath were caught on the wrong side of the ruck and as both sides relied heavily on the boot, it was unsurprising the first try came from a turnover.

In the second half we were out-muscled in the scrum on our own ball and the lineout went from being very good to very poor Quins boss Mark Evans

Bath flanker Michael Lipman popped the ball up from the deck and Tony Diprose snatched the interception, Keogh racing over from 40m out.

Staunton added the extras to give Harlequins a 10-3 lead.

Barkley was struggling with the boot and missed consecutive penalties before Bath hit Harlequins with a swift counter-attack, finished off magnificently by debutant Lewitt.

The England Under-19 international had only just arrived on the field as a replacement for Alex Crockett when he was fed the ball wide on the left and he stood up Harlequins full-back Gavin Duffy and beat him on the outside.

Lewitt is a young player with some talent and this will give him the encouragement to train harder in the future Bath boss Jon Connolly

Barkley missed his third kick and Bath, frustrated at trailing 10-8 as they headed down the tunnel for half-time, emerged a more powerful force up front.

Lipman's touch down was ruled out when the television official adjudged the ball had been knocked forward.

But Malone clipped over a 35-metre drop-goal to earn Bath an 11-10 lead.

The victory was finally secure when Higgins, celebrating his recovery from ankle ligament damage, raced in down the right to deny Harlequins what might yet prove a vital bonus point.

Harlequins: Duffy, Monye, Harder, Reay, Keogh, Staunton, So'oialo, Jones, Tiatia, Dawson, Rudzki, Miall, Sheriff, Vos, Diprose.
Replacements: Fuga, Fitzgerald, Winters, Horstmann, Molitika, Dunne, James.

Bath: Best, Crockett, Fleck, Barkley, Higgins, Malone, Walshe, Barnes, Humphreys, Bell, Fidler, Grewcock, Beattie, Lipman, Fea'unati.
Replacements: Lewitt, Mears, Stevens, Wood, Davey, Delve, Hudson.