Nottinghamshire were left rocking on 169-8 in 47.3 overs on a green tinged pitch before a second stoppage for bad light prevented any further play on a rain-hit opening day to the LV=County Championship match against Yorkshire at Headingley.

Nottinghamshire were 139 for seven in 41.5 overs 50 minutes after lunch when a downpour interrupted play until 6pm after which Stuart Broad, in a rare appearance for his county, reached his side's top score of 36 before being dismissed.

Put in to bat, there was little sign of the things to come for Nottinghamshire as Steven Mullaney and Brendan Taylor made largely untroubled progress against the new ball.

But when Patterson and Bresnan took over in a double bowling change, wickets began to topple.

Brendan Taylor, having strung together five boundaries in his 29, pushed forward at Patterson and Alex Lees bent low at first slip to scoop up the catch.

Former Yorkshire batsman Michael Lumb, who was out first ball in the T20 match between the sides on the ground last Friday, fared little better this time, reaching seven before being lbw to a Bresnan yorker which hit him on the boot.

In the next over from Patterson, captain James Taylor was caught behind off his first ball but he appeared unhappy with the decision and waved his bat in apparent frustration when leaving the field.

Notts had lost three wickets for ten runs in 22 balls and Mullaney also departed shortly before lunch when he was unable to avoid edging a lifting delivery from Sidebottom into Hodd's gloves.

There was no respite after the interval and in the first over Samit Patel, stepping forward, was lbw to a full ball from Brooks who then gained an lbw verdict against Will Gidman.

Broad had a fortunate moment after making only a single. He edged Patterson to third slip where Jack Leaning dived far to his left and got his hand to the ball but could not make it stick.

Sidebottom's first ball back for a new spell pinned Riki Wessels lbw for 33 and Broad and Luke Wood managed to hold out until the rain came. On the resumption, Broad reached 36, the top score of the day, before he could not keep down a probing ball from Bresnan and Leaning took him cleanly at third slip.

A short break for bad light lopped a further three overs off the day's ration and on the return only nine balls were sent down before it became too dark to continue.

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