Rich Kisbee: Man alive. What a night to have a shocker. Middlesex have been making my local village side look like world beaters.

Helm keeps the boundaries at bay on this occasion but the requirement is 15 from 30 balls - with 10 wickets intact.

Six more for Hales, but his partner has been far from overshadowed, Nash's bat is making such a beautiful sound, he backs away and strikes Sowter over the covers for another four. The jubilant crowd are swaying in time to the latest burst of Sweet Caroline.

Dropped catch - Hales on 56published at 13 overs

13 overs

Notts 126-0

The crowd are on their feet again - not for a boundary but another dropped catch, Eskinazi the guilty party this time, sliding in from fine-leg to get under a mid-time Hales hook but down it goes. Roland-Jones the aggrieved bowler, he put one down himself and he won't be enjoying Sweet Caroline on the PA at this precise moment.

A better over for Mujeeb but the spinner has finished his four-over spell with 0-41.

It's a half-tracker from Sowter, it doesn't matter that it's a quicker one, Hales is swiftly on to it and pulling it away for his fifth four - to go with his four sixes.

Mark Church
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra commentator

The other problem for Middlesex is they haven't been able to keep the crowd quiet.

The Trent Bridge faithful have loved every single minute of this...

50 for Halespublished at 21:08 British Summer Time 5 September 2019

21:08 BST 5 September 2019

Just 26 balls for Alex Hales to reach fifty, what a superb innings it has been. When he is in full flow he certainly is a fine player to watch.

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And it gets worse. Paul Stirling look away now, a cut shot bamboozling him and spinning beyond his grasp for four more to Nash - delighting the jubilant home supporters. Three overs for Mujeeb, 39 conceded.

Steven Mullaney
Nottinghamshire all-rounder on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

Sometimes you know as a side - it's just not your night and sadly that's been the case for Middlesex tonight...

Dropped catchpublished at 9 overs

9 overs

Notts 103-0

Yes, safe to say it's not going well for Middlesex. Toby Roland-Jones spills Hales at deep mid-wicket. Into his hands and out again. Sowter the unfortunate bowler this time.

Steven Mullaney
Nottinghamshire all-rounder on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

You could tell with Alex Hales the way he's been performing in the nets and striking it - that's there's been one big innings like this one around the corner.

Notts 98-0published at 8 overs

8 overs

Target 161

Alex Hales is off to the Caribbean Premier League tomorrow. He's going in some nick too, he is in perfect position to dispatch another short one from Finn into the stands. Finn's first over goes for 16 and we have had 11 fours and five sixes so far.

Now then Steven Finn, we've had that dropped catch, what have you got with the ball? A short one is swiped down the ground for four and when it's fuller it's square driven with exemplary timing for yet another boundary. Vintage Nash.

Australian leg-spinner Nathan Sowter is the new bowler. He has 16 wickets in the competition and took 4-29 against Somerset last month but he drops short and is smartly cut away by Nash. Sussex could do with him back at the top of the order.

Steven Mullaney
Nottinghamshire all-rounder on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra

They've taken it from eight-an-over needed at the start of the innings to just over a run a ball.

Notts in the box seat after that incredible Powerplay.

What a powerplay that was, stylish high elbow again from Hales to strike the eighth four of the innings and compound the misery for Helm after that dropped catch. Middlesex were 41-2 after their first six - and 43-4 in the next over.