Yorkshire opener Finlay Bean compiled a maiden double hundred spanning more than nine hours as the visitors fought back on day three at Trent Bridge, with Liam Patterson-White and Farhan Ahmed spearheading a disciplined showing from the hosts.
Replying to the home side’s 487, Yorkshire closed on 414-6.
Bean batted for 564 minutes for his 224, hitting 30 fours and one six before being caught at slip off spinner Ahmed, having shared partnerships of 130 with Matthew Revis (54 not out) and 101 with skipper Jonny Bairstow (41).
Left-arm spinner Patterson-White took three for 129 from a marathon 52 overs.
Bean, with five career first-class hundreds against Division Two opposition, had a flat pitch and the less bowler-friendly Kookaburra ball working in his favour - as the likes of Muhammad Abbas, Dillon Pennington, Liam Patterson-White and Farhan Ahmed bowled with pace and movement aplenty between them.
Bean gave away only one genuine chance before his dismissal when a shot travelling at speed was put down on 170.
Having been 86 overnight, he spent 50 minutes in the 90s before cutting Farhan to third man for his 16th four to reach 102 from 236 balls in the morning session. After tea, he had to negotiate more than 40 minutes in the 190s before going to 200 from 450 deliveries, pushing a single into the leg side with 17-year-old Farhan by then in his 34th over.
Yorkshire lost only one wicket before lunch as Dan Moriarty, sent in as nightwatchman after Dawid Malan had fallen in the last over of the second day, went to drive Patterson-White but could only edge to Freddie McCann at slip. Moriarty protected one end for almost an hour.
The conditions demanded patience of Nottinghamshire, too, as Bairstow then bedded in with Bean. Two bursts with the second new ball before and after lunch could not unseat either and it was an hour into the middle session before another breakthrough came.
The introduction of Lyndon James almost yielded a dividend for Nottinghamshire as Bean chipped perilously close to short extra-cover on 152, moments before Patterson-White struck Bairstow on the front pad and had his lbw appeal upheld.
Swapping James for Abbas at the Radcliffe Road end likewise almost paid off, Bean surviving a hard chance to McCann at midwicket on 170. Unperturbed, the left-hander drove Patterson-White through the off-side as he and Revis guided Yorkshire to 320 for five at tea.
The home side got Bean out 15 minutes before the close as Farhan turned one to have him caught at slip trying to work to leg.
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