A career-best unbeaten 73 by all-rounder Liam Patterson-White led a Nottinghamshire recovery from 119 for six to 273 all out on the opening day of their LV=Insurance County Championship match against Warwickshire, who were 24 for two at the close.
Academy graduate Patterson-White batted for three hours and eight minutes and hit 12 boundaries, striking the ball cleanly on both sides of the wicket.
With England’s Dom Sibley not taking his usual place at the top of the order, Warwickshire hoped to survive the 10 overs they faced at the end of the day but instead lost Rob Yates and debutant Indian Test batsman Hanuma Vihari without scoring, the latter a victim for the returning Stuart Broad.
Zak Chappell removed Rob Yates with the help of a fine, diving catch by Tom Moores behind the stumps, before Broad had Vihari taken low down at third slip by Haseeb Hameed.
Olly Stone, Tim Bresnan, and Will Rhodes shared the bowling wickets for the visitors, with Joe Clarke the pick of the top order batsmen, dismissed by Stone for a well-made 29.
Steven Mullaney began the fightback for the Green and Golds, but was caught athletically one-handed by Vihari at square leg off Rhodes for 31, and it was left to Moores to add 63 for the seventh wicket with Patterson-White before the former was bowled.
After Broad hit 21 off 19 balls before becoming Rhodes’s fourth victim, edging to first slip, Patterson-White shrugged off blows to the body by Stone and the head by Bresnan to share another 63-stand for the ninth wicket with Chappell before Bresnan wrapped up the innings by dismissing both Chappell for 22, and debutant South African bowler Dane Paterson.