Nottinghamshire v Leicestershire: Scores and match report from County Championship Division Two

Match scores (Trent Bridge)

Nottinghamshire win by an innings and 280 runs

Notts 1st inns: 548-9d (134 overs. Patel 247, Taylor 61, Broad 50*; Klein 6-142)

Leicestershire 1st inns: 134 (49.5 overs. Horton 31; Pattinson 5-33)

Leicestershire 2nd inns: 134-9 (31.1 overs. McKay 41*, Raine absent injured; Fletcher 3-16, Pattinson 3-36)

Day three report

Another ruthless bowling performance from Nottinghamshire swept them to their fifth win of the Specsavers County Championship season, strengthening their lead at the top of Division Two.

Leicestershire, bowled out for 134 in their first innings, struggled just as badly second time around at Trent Bridge and - with Ben Raine unable to bat due to injury - they succumbed for exactly the same total to lose by an innings and 280 runs.

Luke Fletcher took three wickets for 16 runs and James Pattinson bagged three for 38 as the match was wrapped up just after lunch on the third day.

Stuart Broad only bowled one over before leaving the field but by that stage the visitors were five wickets down and spiralling to their second heavy defeat against their neighbours this season.

Pattinson had taken five Leicestershire wickets on Tuesday and needed only five deliveries to add to his tally as the visitors began their second innings after being made to follow on 414 behind.

The Australian pace bowler, who took eight wickets when the sides met at Leicester in early April and another four in the Royal London One-Day Cup clash between the two sides at Welbeck, made the early breakthrough by having Paul Horton caught behind for six.

Jake Ball also struck in his opening over, with Brendan Taylor taking a sharp catch at third slip to remove Harry Dearden, who has amassed just 18 runs in four innings against Nottinghamshire this season.

Mark Cosgrove made 22 before falling lbw in Fletcher's first over to leave the visitors' innings in tatters at 49 for three.

Fletcher struck twice more, dismissing Colin Ackermann by the same method and then having Mark Pettini caught at second slip.

Steven Mullaney removed Ned Eckersley for 20 and with the final ball of the morning session Pattinson nipped out Lewis Hill to bring the finishing line even closer.

Hill had received treatment earlier in the over after being struck on the helmet and had earlier survived a catch at slip after the umpires ruled the ball had come off the forearm rather than the glove or bat.

Clint McKay scored an unbeaten 41 from 24 balls but by then the contest was almost over.

McKay hit Mullaney for two sixes in a bold act of defiance but at the other end Dieter Klein was yorked by Pattinson, then Gavin Griffiths nicked Ball into the hands of second slip, condemning Leicestershire to their heaviest innings loss since 1932.

The hosts gained the full 24 points from their victory and face promotion rivals Kent under the Trent Bridge floodlights next week, while Leicestershire - who only gathered two bonus points from this match - are at Northamptonshire.

Day two report

Samit Patel and James Pattinson put Nottinghamshire into a strong position at the halfway stage of their Specsavers County Championship match against Leicestershire at Trent Bridge.

Patel scored a double hundred for the second match in a row before Australia's Pattinson took five wickets for 33 runs with an explosive burst of genuinely fast bowling for the leaders.

The 32-year-old Patel, who scored an unbeaten career best 257 in the last Division Two contest against Gloucestershire, almost matched it before falling for 247 soon after lunch.

He batted for more than seven hours and faced 305 balls, hitting 29 fours and two sixes as he became the first Nottinghamshire player to score 200 in successive matches.

Once Patel had been dismissed, Stuart Broad threw the bat to good effect and raced to 50 not out, at which point Chris Read declared the innings closed on 548 for nine.

Dieter Klein returned the most successful figures for the Foxes, taking six for 142 from 31 overs.

Leicestershire had no real answer to the pace of Pattinson and were dismissed for 134 in 49.5 overs, a deficit of 414.

Nottinghamshire captain Chris Read then enforced the follow-on with four overs remaining - but bad light prevented the players returning.

The Leicestershire innings was plunged into early disarray with Pattinson removing both Harry Dearden and Mark Cosgrove in a slippery opening burst.

Reintroduced after tea, the 27-year-old then had Mark Pettini caught at third slip before demolishing the stumps of Lewis Hill and Gavin Griffiths, each with searing yorkers.

Luke Fletcher claimed the scalp of Colin Ackermann and then Jake Ball got in the act by dismissing both Ned Eckersley and the stubborn Paul Horton, who made 31.

Steven Mullaney also chipped in with two wickets, including that of Ben Raine, who batted with a runner after incurring a side strain on the opening day.

Earlier, Riki Wessels, after a fifth wicket partnership of 113 with Patel, departed for 30 after nicking the left-arm quick to Horton at first slip and then Read, playing his 300th first class match, made just seven before nicking behind.

Maximum points already secured, Notts pushed on with Pattinson playing some delightful shots on his way to 33 before being caught sweeping the off-spin of Ackermann.

Fletcher was caught behind from his first ball, giving Klein his sixth victim. Broad, aware that a declaration was imminent, hit four fours and three sixes to reach his third 50 of the summer and prompt the declaration.

Day one report

Samit Patel continued to make the most of the richest vein of form of his career with another imperious innings on the first day of Nottinghamshire's Specsavers County Championship match against Leicestershire at Trent Bridge.

Patel reached the close on 157 not out, scoring his runs from 222 balls with 17 fours and a six, as the home side reached stumps on 345 for four after being asked to bat first.

Since making 82 against Derbyshire on June 4, in the second innings of Nottinghamshire's last home Division Two match, Patel has rattled off an unbeaten 257 versus Gloucestershire and then Royal London One-Day Cup scores of 66 and 122 not out in last week's wins over Somerset and Essex.

The 32-year old was given not out on 37 after the umpires had conferred with the Foxes claiming a slip catch by Paul Horton but a bump ball seemed to be their judgement.

Otherwise it was a breeze for the middle order stroke-maker, who picked up a couple of milestones during his five-and-a-half hours at the crease.

On 89 he reached 11,000 runs in first-class cricket and the shot that took him to his 26th first-class hundred also took him to 10,000 for his county.

Jake Libby fell for seven inside the first hour of the day, nibbling Dieter Klein down the leg side and into the gloves of wicketkeeper Lewis Hill.

On a stiflingly hot day, the visitors' gamble of opting to bowl first and pick up early top-order wickets was not helped by the early loss of Ben Raine. The all-rounder had sent down 3.2 overs before he left the action in some discomfort.

Steven Mullaney appeared untroubled in making 40 from 59 balls but then had his defences exposed as Gavin Griffiths nipped one back to flatten his middle stump.

Brendan Taylor, also off the back of two substantial white-ball innings of 154 and 62, made 61 in his first Championship knock of the summer.

The former Zimbabwe captain had a scare on 48 when he nicked Clint McKay but wicketkeeper Hill couldn't gather low down. A couple of deliveries later Taylor was gifted two overthrows from an errant shy, to reach his 50 from 104 balls.

Klein picked up his second wicket when he had Taylor caught behind to a regulation nick and he struck again when Michael Lumb dragged on for 36, soon after tea.

Late in the day the Foxes took the second new ball and Patel greeted its arrival by hoisting McKay several rows back over the midwicket fence during his unbroken 106-run fifth-wicket partnership with Riki Wessels.

Notts had a further reason to be thankful with the announcement that James Pattinson, their Australian quick bowler, has been cleared to remain in the country and will participate in the One-Day Cup final a week on Saturday.