Barnard & Woakes help Bears recover at Notts

Rothesay County Championship, Division One, Trent Bridge (day one)

Warwickshire 375-8: Barnard 134*, Woakes 64; Tongue 5-91

Nottinghamshire: Yet to bat

Notts 2 pts, Warwickshire 3 pts

Match scorecard

Warwickshire all-rounders Ed Barnard and Chris Woakes combined to deny Nottinghamshire's attempt to take early charge on day one of their County Championship match at Trent Bridge.

England pace bowler Josh Tongue has 5-91 but Barnard ended the day 134 not out after he and former England stalwart Woakes (64) had shared a seventh-wicket partnership of 116.

They enabled Warwickshire to fight back from 179-6 to close on 375-8 against the defending champions.

It is Tongue's fourth five-wicket haul in only eight first-class appearances for Nottinghamshire. The visitors looked in a perilous position at 97-4 just after lunch, but thanks to Barnard's resolve and enterprise, Warwickshire can feel well pleased with their day's work, especially having been asked to bat first.

Tongue's two morning wickets had swung the opening session in Nottinghamshire's favour. After losing Alex Davies, caught at backward point off a leading edge as Brett Hutton struck in the third over of the morning, Dan Mousley's profitable counter-attack quickly seized the initiative as he and Rob Yates added 62 in rapid time before Tongue removed both in consecutive overs.

Used sparingly and in short bursts in his season-opener against Glamorgan here two weeks ago, Tongue was allowed off the leash for longer this time and it paid off in the sixth and seventh overs of an eight-over first spell.

Yates, who had done well to survive a rapid yorker from Tongue's first ball, had no answer to a delivery that climbed and took the edge to give first slip an easy catch. Mousley picked up nine boundaries in a run-a-ball 49, yet like Davies was caught off a leading edge, this time at extra cover.

Warwickshire, one of the counties considered potential title contenders this year, suffered another blow two balls after lunch as Tom Hain, no stranger to big scores on this ground, was pinned leg before by Lyndon James, leaving Warwickshire four down for 97.