Jack Haynes hammered a brutal unbeaten 89 from just 41 balls as Notts Outlaws completed the highest T20 run chase in their history with a barnstorming seven-wicket win over Bears on an unforgettable night at Trent Bridge.

Haynes’ knock, which included 11 fours and three sixes, eclipsed the efforts of his near-namesake Sam Hain, who amassed 92 from 49 in Bears’ 226-5 after being put in.

However, the visitors’ total was under near-constant threat throughout the Outlaws’ chase, with captain Joe Clarke contributing a 23-ball 58 and Moises Henriques adding 34 off 27 to close out a stunning win with five balls to spare.

Hain, who boasts an impressive record with the bat at Trent Bridge, hit six fours and six sixes and found support in Ed Barnard’s 28-ball 55, although Daniel Sams’ 2/39 kept the total in check.

Sams was in fact responsible for the game beginning strongly from an Outlaws point of view, as he pinned New Zealand opener Tom Latham lbw for just seven.

Moments later, Dillon Pennington, who collected the Outlaws’ most economical figures of the night in returning 1/33 from four overs, bowled Rob Yates for a three-ball duck to leave Bears 12-2.

Alex Davies swiped a 22-ball 40 to help the visitors recover to 58-2 by the end of the powerplay, but he fell an over later, offering up a steepling catch to Haynes off Calvin Harrison.

However, therein followed a 87-run partnership in a little under eight overs as Hain and Barnard both posted fifties, the former in 33 and the latter in 26.

Moises Henriques provided the crucial breakthrough with a little more than five overs remaining, as he had Barnard caught by Harrison.

Hain and George Garton added a further 40 for the fifth wicket from 19 balls as the former ratcheted up the tempo, only for Sams to return at the death and uproot Garton’s off-stump for 18.

If Bears believed they had enough at halfway, though, they were about to be proven wrong in the most devastating fashion, as Notts conducted a run-chasing clinic.

Jake Lintott and Barnard were the only Bears bowlers to concede an economy rate of less than ten per over throughout as captain Clarke and new opening partner Lyndon James got off to a flier.

James dispatched his very first ball to the point boundary, before Clarke utterly marmalised Garton’s second over as it went for 29.

The first four balls were legal, but still all disappeared to the fence for four, before Garton sent down three wides - one of which evaded everyone to disappear for four more leg-byes.

That, though, still amounted only to 23, and with one more colossal heave from Clarke, he signed off with a six to take the score to 56 in just four overs.

Continuing the charge, he took a further 24 off Adam Sylvester’s first over, who entered the attack in place of Garton but found no respite, as his fifth ball, in being struck for four, took Clarke to a 21-ball half-century.

His luck ran out when he found the fielder at deep backward square off Danny Briggs, before Lintott then had James caught at long-off.

However, Haynes and Henriques kept up the charge with an exhilarating stand of 101 in just 57 balls, at one point taking 35 off just three overs.

Haynes achieved his fifty with five overs to go, driving a quick single from his 27th ball to evoke loud cheers, before Henriques holed out, leaving 31 needed from three overs.

That became 22 off two, but when Haynes wiped off 20 of them in the penultimate over, the result, perhaps for the first time, became rather of a formality.

It fell to Tom Moores to apply the final touch, striking Craig Miles for four and leaving Haynes unbeaten at the other end, to send the Trent Bridge crowd into raptures.