The rain got the better of the first day of Nottinghamshire's clash with second place Worcestershire bringing an early close to proceedings on Day One.
 
Nottinghamshire reached 188 for nine, from the 47.5 overs of play that were possible as Ed Barnard finished with four for 68 for the visitors.
 
The home side, three days on from their NatWest T20 Blast triumph at Edgbaston, struggled to come to terms with the moving ball and slid from a position of strength at 79 for one, with only Jake Libby and Brendan Taylor reaching 30.
 
Worcestershire’s decision to bowl first denied Chris Read the opportunity to toss the coin for one last time at Trent Bridge. The Nottinghamshire skipper will retire at the end of the season and only has two away fixtures to play after this one.
 
Notts lost an early wicket under cloudy skies, with Steven Mullaney bowled by Leach for seven, in the third over.
 
Two short stoppages disrupted Nottinghamshire’s progress and then Barnard began to make inroads. Libby nicked on 34 and was picked off by Daryl Mitchell, who reacted to the loose ball that had been spilled by wicketkeeper Ben Cox.
 
Cox was more assured to catch further edges from both Cheteshwar Pujara for 28 and Samit Patel for 14.
 
Notts continued to struggle as Riki Wessels was bowled for nought and then Alex Hales clipped to second slip, off Tongue, for 28.
 
Read walked out to a standing ovation but only reached 26 before drilling the ball back into the midriff of Tongue, who took a sharp catch to dismiss the Notts captain, who had looked well set.
 
Taylor and Brett Hutton tried to rebuild, with a patient partnership of 17, made in exactly 10 overs. Both then fell to successive deliveries.
 
Taylor was given out lbw for 33, falling across his stumps to work to leg. Hutton had needed 26 balls to get off the mark but then didn’t face another delivery as Barnard threw down the stumps as Jake Ball called his partner for a chancy single.
 
Heavy rain, that had wiped out the entire morning session, then brought a premature halt to proceedings with Notts still a dozen runs short of a first batting point.