By Nabil Hassan

Lee Byrne celebrates his try against Worcester

Worcester (16) 6
Tries: Gillies
Cons: Brown (1)
Pens: Drahm (3)

Ospreys (47) 21
Try: Byrne (2), Walker, Williams (2), Parker, Phillips
Cons: Hook (4), Connor (2)

The Ospreys got their EDF Energy Cup campaign off to a stunning start with an emphatic seven try thumping of Worcester Warriors.

Last year's beaten finalists never looked troubled by their English opponents and look on course to go one better this time around.

Tries from Lee Byrne (2), Nikki Walker, Shane Williams (2), Sonny Parker and Mike Phillips secured victory.

Worcester did manage a consolation through Craig Gillies.

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The Ospreys started brightly, taking only a minute to gain their first opportunity to earn points, but the normally reliant boot of outside-half James Hook misfired as he sent his penalty wide.

Only a few minutes later though, they did get on the score-board with Byrne powering through weak Worcester defence to cross for the Ospreys.

Hook added the extras, as he did soon after, with Walker the next Osprey to cross.

Again the Worcester defence was poor, missing tackles and struggling to cope with sparkling play from the Ospreys back-line.

Worcester in contrast struggled to get their backs into the game and kept the ball with their forwards for large periods of the half.

And while the scrum and line-out worked well in the first-half they lacked the cutting edge of their Welsh opponents.

Shane Drahm got Worcester off the mark with a 36th minute penalty but the Ospreys fired straight back with a try.

Hook created it, firing a delightful cross-field kick into the grateful arms of Williams on the wing.

The pint-sized Welsh winger still had a lot of work to do, but he again took advantage of poor tackling to weave himself through the Worcester defence to cross for his side's third converted try of the half.

On the stroke of half-time Drahm sent over Worcester's second penalty to give the home fans something to cheers about.

After the break Worcester started with more urgency and Ospreys number 8 Filo Tiaita was sent to the bin and Drahm kicked the resulting penalty.

But any thoughts of a comeback were soon put to bed when Parker finished off a fine-break from Walker to gain a bonus point for his side.

Worcester continued to plug away and just after the hour they finally got their first try of the evening.

Gillies scored it, just reward for his hard work, catching Craig Brown's cross-field kick to touch down in the corner.

It was scant consolation for the Worcester faithful though, as they saw their side completely capitulate in the final ten minutes.

Tries from Williams, Phillips and a superb team-try finished off by Byrne emphasised the huge gulf in class as the Ospreys ran out comfortable winners.