WORCESTERSHIRE interim chief executive Tom Scott welcomed the findings of the England and Wales Cricket Board's Cricket Discipline Commission into the abandoned Specsavers County Championship match with Kent earlier this month.

The commission were satisfied with the actions taken by the County in the build-up to the four-day Division Two game, which was washed out over all four days after torrential bursts of rain.

Scott said: "We are delighted with the response and findings of the ECB investigation into our game against Kent.

"Obviously, Worcestershire were as disappointed as anyone the elements conspired in such a way to lead to the entire game being abandoned without a ball being bowled.

"It was not what we desired from a playing point of view and also financially.

"We also have sympathy with supporters from both sides who may have travelled considerable distances and spent substantial funds and were frustrated by events.

"But the fact of the matter is on the Friday before the game the outfield was perfectly playable and the players were also able to practice on the Saturday.

"That we then had substantial amounts of rain over two of the next three days is nothing we had control over and everyone at Worcestershire was left frustrated, none more so than the groundstaff who put in Herculean work to ensure the ground was fit to play after our two winter floods."

ECB investigated the circumstances leading up to and during the match with submissions from both clubs and the umpires.

Commission chairman Gerard Elias QC determined there were no grounds for any further action.

He found there was no evidence the pitch was unfit or Worcestershire had, by the action or wilful inaction of its groundstaff, done anything which materially adversely impacted upon the possibility of play.

Elias was satisfied reasonable decisions and actions had been taken by Worcestershire in the light of the condition of the playing area in the period leading up to the match and weather conditions that prevailed.

He found specifically, in the 24 hours before the commencement of the match when the home team practised on the whole of the square and playing area, Worcestershire reasonably believed the ground would be fit for the match commencing the following day.

Elias recognised significant financial loss and inconvenience, as well as disappointment, would have been experienced by both counties and their supporters, as well as other members of the public as a result of the abandonment.

Accordingly, he invited the ECB to consider whether any further actions and/or safeguards were possible to seek to ensure county grounds staging matches in April were more likely to be able to do so satisfactorily.