TEN-wicket star Ben Coad continued his remarkable start to the new season as Yorkshire closed in on an innings victory over a Warwickshire side who ended day three on 85-9.

Coad steamed in with the new ball after lunch on day three to claim 5-27 from 14 overs to lead his side towards a fourth Specsavers County Championship win in their last five visits to Edgbaston.

Two rain delays through the afternoon and evening took the game into the third day's extra half hour, with bad light ending play at 7.15pm.

Coad, who claimed five wickets in the first innings, currently has match figures of 10-79 from 36 overs in only his third career appearance.

The 23-year-old now has 18 Championship wickets from two matches, meaning he is the joint-leading wicket-taker in either division alongside Gloucestershire seamer Liam Norwell.

The day had started with Yorkshire advancing their first innings from 295-6 to 381 all out.

Bradford all-rounder Adil Rashid hit 65 to add to Australian batsman Peter Handscomb's second-day 75 and Tim Bresnan's 61, with all three batsmen playing positively in conditions offering some assistance for the bowlers.

Rashid, Andrew Hodd, Steve Patterson and David Willey, who later impressed alongside Coad with the new ball, were the Yorkshire wickets to fall.

Rashid and Hodd (28) completed a 52-run partnership for the seventh wicket.

Hodd was bowled off the inside-edge by Keith Barker, before Rashid and Patterson were both caught at first slip Jonathan Trott off Rikki Clarke.

Willey was caught behind off Oliver Hannon-Dalby for 19 shortly before lunch as Yorkshire claimed their fourth batting bonus point.

Warwickshire's openers faced one over before lunch but it was afterwards when the Bears' batting crumbled for the third time in four innings this season.

Bowled out for 91 in a defeat to Surrey the previous weekend, they only managed 178 in the first innings here.

Willey (2-20 from ten overs) started the collapse in the first over after lunch when he had left-handed Alex Mellor caught at first slip by Bresnan and Jonathan Trott lbw with successive deliveries.

In the seventh over of the innings, Ian Bell could only glove a rising Coad delivery to Bresnan at first slip as the score fell to 5-3.

The players went off for rain immediately, only returning after a little over an hour – and wickets continued to tumble.

Coad rocked back Sam Hain's off-stump as he offered no shot early in the ninth over, before trapping Tim Ambrose lbw two balls later to leave the hosts at 7-5 and the visitors delirious.

There was a mini-recovery from Will Porterfield and Clarke, with mini being the operative word as Coad continued to wreak havoc. He had Clarke caught at second slip as the score slipped to 29-6 in the 17th over.

After the resumption, Patterson had Barker caught behind as the score fell to 40-7 in the 22nd. Three overs later, Coad claimed his fifth wicket when Will Porterfield edged a third catch to Bresnan with 54 on the board.

In fading light, Rashid bowled Chris Wright before the umpires decided the visibility was too poor to continue.

Not only will this be Yorkshire's fourth win in the last five matches here, it will also be their third by an innings.