Haseeb Hameed made his third fifty-plus score of the season before Lancashire moved into the ascendancy on a rain-affected second day of the LV= Insurance County Championship clash at Trent Bridge.
Hameed made 97 as Notts secured a first-innings lead of 35, before the visitors ended the day 63 in front with nine second-innings wickets in hand.
Haseeb, who captained England Lions during the winter after hitting more than 1,200 first-class runs in 2022, was leg before wicket to Will Williams on 97, although it was thanks to his measured innings that Nottinghamshire, who had been 119 for five overnight, more than doubled their score to be 249 all out.
While James Anderson finished 0-49 from 13 overs, three Lancashire bowlers took three wickets each as Will Williams, Tom Bailey and George Balderson shared the honours.
Nottinghamshire had begun the day five down and still 95 behind the visitors’ first-innings score. Steven Mullaney, who was only a few short of 1,000 first class runs last season, fell to the 18th delivery of the first session off Williams.
It left responsibility squarely on the shoulders of Hameed at 125 for six but the opener was quite unfazed, even when Brett Hutton, squared up by a ball from Bailey, edged behind for seven.
He emerged unscathed from an interesting battle with Anderson, who generally bowled better than he had on the first evening, beating the bat several times.
Olly Stone played some nice shots in his 22 before nicking a good ball from Balderson to be caught behind, and three boundaries by Broad off the same bowler took Nottinghamshire ahead of Lancashire’s total on 218 for eight at lunch, with Hameed on 95.
Williams would go on to strike Hameed’s front pad and hear his lbw appeal upheld shortly after the break, and he claimed his third when Broad swished at one on the leg side after a typically attacking cameo.
Notts added 124 runs for their last four wickets, but a second-wicket partnership between Balderson and Josh Bohannon took Lancashire into the lead by stumps.
Nottinghamshire’s all-seam attack struck an early blow when Luke Fletcher removed Luke Wells in the eighth over via a catch behind, but Balderson and Bohannon survived through until tea, with no further play possible afterwards due to heavy rain and 32 overs lost from the day’s schedule.
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