Duckett scores unbeaten 197 for Notts v Bears
Ben Duckett shared century stands with Ben Slater and Jack Haynes on day one at Edgbaston
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Vitality County Championship Division One, Edgbaston (day one)
Nottinghamshire 367-8: Duckett 197*, Haynes 74, Slater 65; Hannon-Dalby 4-58
Warwickshire: Yet to bat
Warwickshire 2 pts, Notts 3 pts
Ben Duckett scored a brilliant 197 not out to hold Nottinghamshire's batting together on the opening day of their County Championship Division One match against Warwickshire at Edgbaston.
England opener Duckett struck 24 fours in his 230-ball innings as his side made erratic but highly entertaining progress to 367-8.
It was a patchy display from Nottinghamshire as three batters - Duckett, Ben Slater (65) and Jack Haynes (74) - passed 60 but nobody else reached double figures against an attack led by Olly Hannon-Dalby, who took 4-58 on his 200th appearance for Warwickshire.
With the first two Championship matches of the season at Edgbaston having yielded 2,496 runs, Nottinghamshire captain Haseeb Hameed did not hesitate to choose to bat, but he perished early and carelessly when he lifted Hannon-Dalby to cover in the seventh over.
Slater was then dropped at third slip before scoring and made the home side pay as he and Duckett added 146 in 32 overs.
Slater batted with increasing fluency, 52 of his 65 runs coming in fours, before Hannon-Dalby returned to unfurl a lovely away-cutter that took the edge through to wicketkeeper Michael Burgess.
That triggered the loss of three wickets for 15 runs as Will Young and Joe Clarke - having shared 397 runs in a record partnership against Somerset at Taunton last time out - managed just five between them after falling to the first and last balls of a Will Rhodes over, both sweet outswingers which were nicked to Burgess.
Duckett advanced to his 27th first-class century from 126 balls and found a solid partner in Haynes, who struck 11 fours in an attractive knock before the new ball brought another cluster of wickets.
Hannon-Dalby dismissed Haynes and Olly Stone either side of Hasan Ali claiming the scalps of Lyndon James and Calvin Harrison, leaving Nottinghamshire eight down and Duckett just short of his double century as bad light closed in.
Report supplied by the ECB Reporters' Network.