Olly Stone continued his outstanding 2026 by reaching 50 County Championship wickets for the summer with another haul of five on a fast-moving day two against Yorkshire.

The 32-year-old has twice broken his individual record for his best Nottinghamshire bowling figures this season, and recorded a fifth five-fer of the year with 5/51 as the White Rose wilted to 179 all out.

That gave the hosts, who scrapped their way to a batting bonus point earlier on in the day before being bowled out for 251, a solid first-innings lead of 72.

Jack Haynes and Ben Martindale then added an unbroken 31 for the fourth wicket to see that advantage increased to 127 at stumps, which was ultimately called 15 overs early due to bad light.

The nine runs that Notts added to their overnight 242-9 proved important, with four leg byes, courtesy of Mohammad Ali’s thigh pad, the crucial amount that afforded the hosts a bonus point.

Ali remained unbeaten as Stone nicked George Hill to slip two overs later to wrap up Notts’ innings, but what followed over the rest of the day gave the hosts a sizeable boost in the contest.

The White Rose were bundled out in a fraction over four hours in spite of George Hill’s 58, as Stone returned 5/51, while Brett Hutton also claimed two.

It took only nine overs for the first to fall as Stone saw Will Luxton nick behind to Mitch Hay for eight, before the exact same fate befell Luxton’s fellow opener Adam Lyth for 16.

Sam Whiteman made only two before finding Haynes at second slip off Hutton, and although James Wharton resisted alongside Matt Revis to add 57, he too edged to Haynes as Stone struck again.

Captain Jonny Bairstow departed for just three after he had his middle stump uprooted by Stone, before Revis, having made 30, was run out by a direct hit from Haseeb Hameed at mid-off.

That left Yorkshire reeling at 105-6, still not even halfway to Notts’ first-innings total, and their predicament got worse when Hutton had Dom Bess caught by Lyndon James in the cordon for a duck.

Ben Coad became Haynes’ third catch of the innings as Mohammad Ali found his edge, and although Hill counter-attacked to reach fifty in 46 balls, Yorkshire were nine down as Stone claimed his five.

It was Ben Cliff who was the man to go; he had hung around to help Hill add 47 and at least take the visitors within 100, but his time was over when Liam Patterson-White snaffled one at first slip.

It then took only 13 more deliveries for the innings to be curtailed as Hill charged at Patterson-White, only to miss the shot and see Hay whip the bails off.

Coad and Jack White did briefly give Yorkshire some impetus as Hameed and Ben Slater fell quickly to start the hosts’ second innings, but Martindale steadied the ship and flourished alongside Haynes.

After Joe Clarke had fallen to Hill, there was to be no more joy for the visitors as the fourth-wicket duo confidently stretched the advantage, doing so creditably in the increasing gloom.

That gloom, as it turned out, was eventually deemed too much for the umpires’ liking, and, having called a stoppage just after 5:20pm, went on to end the day early a little more than half an hour later.