County Championship: Bears captain Davies passes 1,000 for season

Resuming on 294-8, Worcestershire salvaged another batting point before being bowled out for 307.

Teenage red-ball debutant Jack Home smashed successive boundaries off Chris Rushworth to reach 29 in his maiden first-class innings.

But Rushworth then quickly got his own back, trapping him lbw before clean bowling the Pears’ last man, on-loan Surrey spinner Amar Virdi, two balls later.

The Bears quickly lost Rob Yates, caught by Virdi at mid-on from a leading edge off Tom Taylor, but Davies and Rhodes saw their side through to lunch on 76-1.

The afternoon session began badly for the visitors when Rhodes was out to the first ball after a slightly delayed resumption, caught behind off former Warwickshire team-mate Ethan Brookes.

Brookes then added another scalp when he bowled Davies, before the Bears lost a third wicket in 10 overs when Sam Hain almost overbalanced trying work a ball outside off stump onto the leg side and Netherlands international Logan van Beek clipped the top of the bails.

Soon after that, the umpires intervened, for bad light. Rain followed – and the premature end to the proceedings was by then inevitable.