Nottinghamshire’s seam battery were put through their paces on Day Two of their pre-season friendly against Leicestershire.
Dillon Pennington led the way with three wickets, while Olly Stone and Lyndon James returned two apiece, as the Foxes were bowled out for 269.
Lewis Hill battled hard for 88, while Ben Green made 83 not out down the order as the hosts fought back, before the final wicket fell with their lead worth six runs.
With conditions on the second morning similarly grey and cold to the first, Pennington found early joy in the first hour as he bowled Sol Budinger and saw Ian Holland caught behind.
Dane Schadendorf was the man behind the stumps, and he aided Pennington again just two overs after Holland’s fall, snaffling Rishi Patel to give the seamer his third scalp.
Within the next ten overs either side of lunch, three further wickets went down, those of Rehan Ahmed, Louis Kimber, and captain Ben Cox, to leave Leicestershire reeling at 97-6.
Stone’s persistence was then rewarded midway through the afternoon, as he pinned both Liam Trevaskis and Ben Mike lbw in quick succession.
Hill and the on-loan Green did put on a resistant partnership of 125 for the ninth wicket, before the former was bowled by Conor McKerr with the Foxes just short of parity.
The hosts did achieve a small lead late on, before McKerr claimed his second scalp by removing Tom Scriven in what turned out to be the final act of the day.