Bears opener Davies passes 1,000 runs at Worcester

Alex Davies has passed 50 six times this season - and has only twice not gone to get a ton

Vitality County Championship Division One, Worcester (day two)

Worcestershire 307: D'Oliveira 76, Waite 53; Hannon-Dalby 3-64

Warwickshire 112-4: Davies 58; Brookes 2-24

Warwickshire (3 pts) trail Worcestershire (3 pts) by 195 runs

Match scorecard

Warwickshire captain Alex Davies became the first Divison One player to pass 1,000 County Championship runs this season on a weather-hit day against Worcestershire at New Road.

Bad light and rain wiped out almost two thirds of the second day's play - but that was enough for Davies to see himself past his personal landmark.

It is only the second time Davies has achieved the feat, having last done it in 2017 when he became the first Lancashire wicketkeeper to reach 1,000 runs in a Championship season.

But what makes this season's feat all the more impressive is that he has done it as Bears captain following the winter decision for him to replace Will Rhodes as skipper..

The early season seeds of Davies's individual success were laid by his form against the Kookaburra ball in the opening two games of the season, particularly his career-best 256 against Durham at Edgbaston.

But he also hit a century and a fifty against Somerset when the ball was deployed again last week - and his 58 here means that 508 of his overall tally of 1,024 Championship runs this season have come against the Kookaburra in just five innings.

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.