Yorkshire are leading a campaign to get the England and Wales Cricket Board to reverse their decision to allow Worcestershire and Kent to replay their LV Championship match which was abandoned without a ball being bowled earlier this week.

Chief executive Stewart Regan said Yorkshire had circulated the other counties about lodging an appeal to the ECB and they now had the support of most First Division clubs and some from the Second.

The controversy surrounds the decision of Worcestershire chief executive Mark Newton - former Yorkshire marketing director - to keep the match at New Road rather than moving it to Kidderminster.

Worcestershire's headquarters had been under water from river flooding but Newton opted to keep the Championship match at the venue. In the event, no play was possible and the game was called off early on the third day.

The ECB, which had already decided to provide financial assistance to Worcestershire to the tune of £75,000 to help in the restoration of the New Road ground following the flooding, then agreed to re-schedule the match from July 31.

But this move brought an immediate and angry reaction from Yorkshire's director of cricket Martyn Moxon, who said he thought Worcestershire had messed up' and got away with it. He felt they should have to accept the weather conditions the same as everyone else had to do.

Regan said he did not wish to comment at this stage on the number of counties likely to support the appeal but he felt there was a view that they could not just sit back and let the ECB take a decision which could have a bearing on the outcome of the competition.

"It seems there is a lot of disquiet among the counties not only about the decision but the process of it, the way it was handled and communicated," he said.

"This is not a formal legal action and we have not formally taken legal advice. We are not going in with a sledge hammer with a formal challenge on any one particular legal point.

"There appears to be a lack of consistency in the whole management of our competitions."

Yorkshire were badly hit by the weather again yesterday when continuous rain meant no play was possible on the first day of their Championship match with Warwickshire at Edgbaston.