Bob Willis Trophy final: Bears build lead after bowling out Lancashire for 78 at Lord's

The dismissal of Lancashire skipper Dane Vilas for a third-ball duck by Craig Miles was a key moment

County champions Warwickshire had a tremendous first day of the Bob Willis final as they outplayed Lancashire to take complete control at Lord's.

Luke Wood hit 46 not out but the Red Rose were rolled for just 78, Craig Miles spearheading the Bears with 5-28.

England's Dom Sibley (49) and Rob Yates (69) then reached the close unparted on 120-0 when bad light called a halt.

After two earlier rain breaks, that meant almost a third of the day's play was lost to the weather.

Only the prospect of more bad weather to come later in the week, especially on Thursday and Friday, now looks like saving Lancashire from defeat.

Craig Miles' caught and bowled to get rid of Lancashire opener Alex Davies was probably the highlight of his first five-wicket haul at Lord's

Good toss to win

Big finals at Lord's in September have traditionally been decided by who wins the toss.

But none of the big one-day finals of the past at the home of cricket have ever brought quite such a dramatic start as this.

When Lancashire's sixth wicket fell on 12, they were still 13 runs short of matching their lowest-ever first-class score, 25 against Derbyshire in 1871.

Liam Norwell started the rot when Tim Bresnan pouched a slip catch to remove George Balderson, after which Miles nipped in for four wickets in 14 balls.

He held on to a superb one-handed return catch from Warwickshire-bound Alex Davies, bowled Luke Wells then earned lbw decisions against Steven Croft and Dane Vilas before Norwell had Rob Jones caught behind in the next over.

Josh Bohannon (17) and Wood briefly resisted with a stand of 35 to at least avoid that place in the record books, and also go past Lancashire's lowest score at Lord's - the 49 they made against the MCC in 1880.

But then came the introduction of teenage Bears paceman Manraj Johal, who made a dream first-class debut after cutting his teeth with West Bromwich Dartmouth in the Birmingham League and Staffordshire in National Counties cricket.

Johal, who does not turn 20 for another fortnight, struck three times in four overs to remove Bohannon, Tom Bailey and Jack Blatherwick.

Last man Matt Parkinson at least hung around for five overs to help Wood take Lancashire past their lowest score against the Bears - 70 at Old Trafford in 1955.

But Miles returned to ensure his third five-wicket haul against Lancashire and his first at Lord's, to earn a place on the celebrated pavilion honours board.

Then it was a chance for Sibley and Yates to show the Lancashire batters how it should be done.

They posted the Bears' first century opening stand of the season in the second innings of last week's Championship-sealing win over Somerset.

But although they made it a second in successive innings, they both survived missed chances in the slip cordon off luckless left-armer Wood - and Sibley was also close to giving a return catch to Balderson.