New Road presented a bleak picture after the abandonment

Worcestershire's weather problems have deepened after their Championship match against Lancashire at New Road was abandoned on the first day.

The game was only allowed to go ahead at New Road on Monday after an England and Wales Cricket Board inspection.

But further downpours led to Friday's play being washed out and soon after the entire match was abandoned.

Worcestershire's chief executive Mark Newton said: "No ground in the country could stand up to this weather."

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And he warned: "If we have another flood this summer, given the condition of the ground anyway, you're talking about not having anything else played here for the rest of the summer.

"The cost [to the club] is already about a quarter of a million [pounds] - I dread to think what it might be if we can't play any more cricket."

The ECB has ordered that Worcestershire's clash against Kent be replayed between 30 July and 3 August after the match was abandoned without a ball being bowled last week.

Kent offered to stage the original fixture at Beckenham and are happy for the replay to go ahead at any mutually acceptable venue.

"We will go where we are asked to go," said chief executive Paul Millman.

There will be a day's break in the rearranged match while Worcestershire travel to Chelmsford to play Essex in a floodlit Pro40 game on 2 August.