Leicestershire 23 for 2 trail Nottinghamshire 451 on December 8 (Haynes 159, Patterson White 111*), a lead of 428 points.
Haynes hit a career-best 159 – his third century of the season – and Patterson-White hit an unbeaten 111. The pair shared a stand of 257 for the sixth wicket, surpassing a record in this match that had stood for 101 years.
Nottinghamshire built on their bid for a maximum five overs for the batsman and then declared at 451 for eight, claiming two wickets before stumps for good measure as Leicestershire lost both openers to Dillon Pennington, closing on 23 for two.
More than eight hours earlier on an extended day, and resuming an unbeaten 42 off just 63 balls, Nottinghamshire lost both openers within the first 40 minutes. Ben Slater took a catch from one off-stump to reward Ian Holland’s perseverance; Six balls later, the promise evaporated in Haseeb Hameed’s seven boundary when he played around a ball from Josh Davie, who would end with three balls for 88.
Freddie McCann fell to a swinging delivery from left-armer Josh Hall who trapped him in front. Joe Clarke, impressive in the final round against Warwickshire, looked to be imposing himself again until, in the final round before lunch, Davie overcame his front-foot defense to volley a stump.
Davey continued his second stint on what was still essentially a first-day pitch, and notched a third success in his first stint of the afternoon, as Kyle Vereen edged it to second slip.
But if the day up to that point had seen Leicestershire rise, the rest belonged squarely to the home side, who went from 143 for five with Vereen’s dismissal to 293 for five at tea before adding a further 158 afterwards.
Haynes’ first year at Trent Bridge after leaving Worcestershire in 2023 brought frustration as he went fifty-seven times without hitting a hundred. That ended with 142 against Essex in the second match of last season, and since then he has made seven centuries and amassed more than 1,600 first-class runs.
This was his third of 2026, as he took out 118 balls with 11 fours and a six. He fired a short ball from Rehan Ahmed over the leg boundary and reached three figures by pulling Josh Hall, the left-arm seamer, to the rope. He also chipped in effectively as he and Patterson White, a left-arm wicket-taker and a regular source of lower-middle-order runs, passed the 201 runs added by Arthur Carr and Willis Walker for Nottinghamshire’s sixth wicket when they met their East Midlands rivals at Leicester’s Aylestone Road ground in 1925.
But there was still more to come as Leicestershire’s attack struggled to create chances, even after getting the second new ball. Haynes, after celebrating briefly, settled on continuing, adding six more boundaries, culminating in four consecutive fours from Tom Scriven to reach 150 off 164 deliveries before surpassing his previous best of 157 against Somerset at Taunton last summer.
Patterson White provided impeccable support, completing his third first-class hundred with his seventh four, hit across mid-wicket from Scriven, three balls before Haynes departed, reaching one outside off stump and finding Davie at wide third man.
Bowlers Fraser Sheet (15 off 14 balls) and Brett Hatton, who hit four fours and a six in his 26 off 14, took their fifth batting wicket before the declaration in the 98th over, denying Leicestershire a third bowling wicket and putting their batsmen in the firing line for 13 overs, enough time for Dillon Pennington to catch Rishi Patel at second slip and hit Sherridon Gumbs.
