As the countdown to the Outlaws' latest Vitality Blast quarter-final begins in earnest, trentbridge.co.uk casts a glance back to the most memorable T20 knockout ties under the Trent Bridge lights - beginning with the Outlaws' first quarter-final victory in the format.
Notts Outlaws v Northants, 24 July 2006.
Notts 213-6 (Hussey 71, Patel 65, Phillips 2-46), Northants 150-6 (Klusener 72, Sidebottom 2-16).
Notts Outlaws won by 63 runs.
Fleming, Hussey, Read, Patel – the Outlaws side of 2006, much like today’s, possessed many players capable of taking a game by the scruff of the neck.
And it was Hussey who bolstered his reputation as one of the finest practitioners of the game’s shortest format on this occasion.
The Aussie hit almost 2,000 T20 runs for his adopted county, and the 71 he scored against Northants in the 2006 quarter-final were amongst the most crucial.
A strike-rate of 208.82 would be astonishing in the Vitality Blast today; in the embryonic days of Twenty20, it was simply phenomenal.
Hussey shared in a stand of 121 with the evergreen and gold Samit Patel, who hit a similarly brisk 65 from 38 balls, as the hosts amassed their then-record T20 total.
And the result was never in doubt from the moment Ryan Sidebottom dismissed Rob White for 13, having already taken the sizeable scalp of Indian icon Sourav Ganguly (5).
An engine room of future Outlaws failed to fire, with Bilal Shafayat (25), Ben Phillips (2) and Riki Wessels (3) unable to stem the tide.
Former Notts man Usman Afzaal (8*) accompanied Lance Klusener to the close, but the South African's 72 was destined to be in vain.
Sidebottom's quite remarkable four-over spell of 2-16 had holed Northants below the waterline, with the hosts cruising home.
View the full scorecard here.