Voyce return gives Wasps sting

Timing their victory run to perfection, with a place in the play-offs the probable reward, Wasps took their winning streak at home to 11 matches as Warriors capitulated in front of an 8,138 crowd.

All clear: Tom Voyce runs through to score for Wasps

Worcester were crushed by a seven-try rush featuring Riki Flutey, Pat Barnard, Danny Cipriani, Mark van Gisbergen, Simon Shaw and Tom Voyce to two replies by Matt Cox and Matt Mullan.

Fielding Voyce in his first game since December, Wasps took a stranglehold on the match in the first half with those tries by Flutey, Barnard and Cipriani.

A combination of Wasps pressure inspired by Lawrence Dallaglio and the sin-binning of Worcester's Cox for killing the ball in the 22nd minute led to an onslaught that had Worcester back-pedalling.

Cox had only just departed when Barnard muscled onto scrum-half Mark McMillan's pass to score Wasps' second try.

By the time Cipriani had scored a third from Dominic Waldouck's assist and then added his third conversion of the half, Wasps had scored 14 points in the time Warriors had been reduced to 14-men.

Cox found redemption with a try three minutes after his return and Shane Drahm's successful conversion gave Worcester hope with the halftime score at 21-7.

Waldouck's 40-metre sprint from inside his own half left Worcester chasing shadows before the Wasps centre off offloaded to Van Gisbergen, whose first touch on arrival as replacement for Flutey was to score a fourth try.

The one-way traffic continued, despite Dallaglio's yellow card for killing the ball. Wasps never lost momentum as Phil Vickery and Tim Payne left the bench to add ballast.

Further tries by Shaw, Voyce and Van Gisbergen helped ease disappointment at seeing Dave Walder carried off on a stretcher with his left leg encased in a splint as the club prepare for the second of three matches in nine days on Tuesday.