Kelly Brown, John Beattie and John Barclay dominated their Edinburgh counterparts

If the match was truly a personal triumph for Warriors stand-off and captain Dan Parks who had a full-house among his monopoly of the home score it was also a special night for Thom Evans on the wing and for the energy which home hooker Fergus Thomson displayed in the loose.

Evans was belligerent in his defence, committed in attack and proved the old adage that you can make a good kick great by the intensity and speed of your follow-up.

His display must surely have impressed the watching Scotland coach Frank Hadden with places in the national squad for the two match tour to Argentina on the line.

The lead changed hands eight times, indicative of how nip and tuck proceedings were before Glasgow scored the decisive try inside the last quarter.

But to return to the beginning from the kick-off Colin Gregor, a late replacement for Sam Pinder who had been struck down by a virus, had a kick charged down inside his 22 and Glasgow's nerves were only calmed when they were awarded a penalty.

The impression however that Edinburgh were sharper out of the blocks was confirmed with the opening try in the third minute. From a slashing break by Ben Cairns in midfield, the centre then went on to win extra plaudits for the timing of his pass to Andrew Turnbull. The diminutive winger executed the score cleverly, pausing before he reached the try line to ease his path to the try. Phil Godman missed the conversion.

In Glasgow's response, Graeme Morrison was driven to within one metre after Parks and Opeta Palepoi had both threatened. From the resultant scrum Morrison had another pop and Glasgow eventually recycled for Parks to go outside the forlorn challenge of a forward and claim a cracking equalising try. His conversion gave the Warriors the lead 7-5 after eight minutes.

Cairns' second superb dash with Godman once more the provider hinted that Edinburgh were very much in the mood but his try-scoring pass to Alan MacDonald was ruled forward.

Far from down-hearted by this missed opportunity, Edinburgh regained the lead in the 26th minute. The animated Cairns had threatened anew after Mike Blair had taken a quick tap penalty on the left and when Andrew Henderson was penalised for going to deck after a tackle, Godman landed his first penalty for 8-7.

The loss of Craig Smith with a lower leg injury when the big prop chugged at pace in support of a break did not help the visitors' cause and Parks' first drop-goal three minutes from the interval saw Glasgow back in front once more at 10-8.

With Blair picking up the pace, Glasgow were penalised in first-half injury time again for not rolling away after a tackle, Godman doing the necessary with a well-struck kick from 33 metres.

Parks miscued with a penalty on the restart but grand ambition by the home captain in unison with Thom Evans from a quickly-taken lineout ultimately led to a home score as Matt Mustchin loitered on the wrong side of a ruck. Parks goaled and Glasgow led 13-11.

Godman replied in kind with a lineout penalty on 50 minutes as the scoreboard ping-pong continued.

The match was coming nicely to the boil and in 67 minutes Parks set the seal on a night of high personal satisfaction. A delicate chip-kick over the advancing Edinburgh defence was gathered adroitly by John Barclay on the right touchline. The flanker slipped an inside pass to Thom Evans and, it was inevitable that Parks would be on his winger's shoulder to go over for a superlative try which he converted.

Not content with that Parks completed his night's work with his second drop-goal, awarded after consultation with the TMO, though even before that strike he had been named as Man of the Match.