At a blustery Edgbaston, Gloucestershire batted first and in the first over from Chris Martin had lost two wickets. Firstly, Porterfield was caught by Botha and a ball later, Thompson skied one and was caught by Wicket keeper Tony Frost.
In front of a healthy crowd, Warwicks took the third wicket in the sixth over when Marshall, who had made 13, was bowled by Tim Gronevald to leave the score at the end of the over on 28-3.
Into the eleventh over and with the score on 59, Steve North hit one into the air and was caught. Mark Hardings was next to go in to next over,dragging onto his wicket from a ball from Ant Botha and then Adshead became another wicket for Iain Salisbury,who took on the captaincy duty after Ian Westwood went off with a badly bruised finger on his left hand.
Chris Taylor came in and hit two consecutive sixes and two fours to complete his half century out of a score on 104-6. His partner Ian Fisher fell to Chris Martin in the 17th over and Will Rudge was caught by Gronevald on the last ball of the 18th over.
Steve Kirby was the next to depart to become Gronevald's second victim as the innings went into the final over. Taylor hit his fourth six but in the next ball he tried the same trick and Ant Botha caught him for 66 and Gloucestershire 131 all out.
Warwicks started well with Neil Carter hitting four sixes in a quick fire innings of 34 before he was caught. Warwicks were 49-1 needing 83 from ninety balls.
Jim Troughton went for five caught behind off the bowling of Harris to give Warwicks some work to do to win their fifth consecutive Twenty/20 victory.
Jon Trott batted valliantly and the one hundred came up in the 13th over. He reached his fifth fifty off 48 balls. His partner Tony Frost hit three sixes (44 not out)and the winnings runs to move Warwicks to 134-2 and an another victory which should set them up for a place in the Quarter-Finals.
On Tuesday at 5.30pm, Warwickshire are at home to Somerset Sabres, then have home games on Thursday and Friday both starting at 5.30pm.
