Ethan Brookes produced an excellent spell as Worcestershire fought back strongly with the ball on day two of the Vitality County Championship derby with Warwickshire at Visit Worcestershire New Road.
The all-rounder delivered nine overs on the bounce either side of lunch which yielded figures of 9-2-24-2 in helping reduce Warwickshire from 76-1 to 112-4 before bad light and rain ended play at 2.15pm.
Brookes picked up the prized wicket of Warwickshire captain Alex Davies (58) who had become the first player to score 1,000 runs in Division One this season.
He also dismissed experienced batter Will Rhodes and troubled all the batters on a pitch of variable bounce in another excellent performance.
Tom Taylor also produced a fine opening spell which deserved more than one wicket as he went past the edge of the bat on numerous occasions.
Worcestershire had earlier been able to secure a second batting point before their first innings ended on 307 after exactly 100 overs.
It completed a splendid comeback from 67-4 on the opening morning.
When play resumed this morning, Jack Home, making his Worcestershire Championship debut, pulled Chris Rushworth for successive boundaries to bring up the 300.
Rushworth then struck twice in the space of three balls.
An excellent stand of 65 between Taylor and Home ended when the latter was trapped lbw for 29.
On loan Surrey spinner Amar Virdi was bowled two balls later to leave Taylor unbeaten on 36 from 49 balls.
Taylor then took the new ball but only five balls were possible before bad light stopped play with Warwickshire 6-0.
When play resumed after a short delay, Taylor made the first breakthrough when Rob Yates tried to work the ball on the leg side and was caught off a leading edge at mid-on by Virdi.
Taylor bowled an excellent opening spell of 6-1-22-1 and constantly beat the bat.
Davies became the first player to score 1,000 runs in Division One this summer with a boundary off Logan van Beek.
He completed a 59-ball half century as Warwickshire reached 76-1 off 20 overs by lunch.
But former Warwickshire all-rounder Brookes struck twice in the space of three overs at the start of the afternoon session.
He broke through with the first delivery when Will Rhodes (13) aimed to work to leg and inside edged through to keeper Gareth Roderick moving away to his right.
There was more joy for Brookes with the prized scalp of Davies (58) who went for a drive but took his one hand off the bat and inside-edged onto his stumps at 91-3.
Van Beek switched ends and claimed his first scalp when Sam Hain (11) tried to turn a delivery on the on-side and was bowled shortly before the players left the field.
