A breathtaking unbeaten 74 from Tom Moores saw Notts to a scintillating six-wicket victory at Edgbaston, as the Outlaws chased over 200 to beat Bears for the second time in the competition.
The visitors clinched victory when Moores hit the last ball of the match for six, completing a knock that consisted of just 33 balls and featured five fours and six sixes.
Lyndon James also struck a vital 50 (40), while Daniel Sams was 16 not out from six balls, including two sixes in a final over from which they needed 16.
The Outlaws chose to field and started solidly. They removed Alex Davies, bowled by Farhan Ahmed through an attempted cut in the second over, and restricted the home side to 37 for one in the powerplay.
Ahmed, making his T20 debut, became the youngest player to appear in the county game's shortest format for Notts.
Latham and Mousley then sped through the gears, however, in a partnership of 116 in 70 balls.
Latham’s demise, when he skied Patterson-White to square leg in pursuit of his fifth six, sparked a wobble of four wickets for 22 runs in nine balls. Patterson-White removed Sam Hain, lbw, and George Garton, caught at long on, and Mousley, his tenth T20 half-century banked, slapped Dillon Pennington to extra cover.
However, a late storm of sixes and fours from Moeen (34, 12) and Barnard (23 not out, 8) lifted the total over 200.
Joe Clarke dominated the start of the Outlaws’ reply, hitting 30 (18 balls) of the first 34 before falling lbw to Mousley. The spinner struck again with his seventh ball, removing Jack Haynes.
A third lbw decision terminated Freddie McCann’s counter attack (32,17) when he missed a reverse-sweep at Moeen.
But James, starved of the strike early on, and Moores hit freely to keep the Outlaws in contention, with 60 needed from the last five overs, but the first of those overs, from the excellent Barnard, cost just five runs.
Moores lifted Hassan Ali mightily over extra cover for six and followed up with four to reach a 24-ball half-century. James followed to his half-century (39 balls) but was run out by quick-thinking Hasan Ali to leave the Outlaws needing 16 from the last over, from Barnard.
Sams lifted the first and fifth balls for six leaving the scores level with one ball left – and Moores thumped that one over long off for another six to complete a remarkable Outlaws double over the Bears.
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