MICHAEL Richardson was left stranded four short of his first century of the season as Durham faded to 372 all out, a lead of 168.

The last five wickets went down for 48 runs, four of them to the previously innocuous Brett Hutton, who finished with five for 77.

On a warm, sunny afternoon, Nottinghamshire reached 30 without loss at tea in their second innings.

Many of Richardson's 15 fours came from cuts, dabs and steers wide of gully to the generally vacant third man boundary.

After reaching 50 off 78 balls he faced a further 60 before last man Graham Onions edged Hutton behind to depart for a duck and become the third new ball victim.

Ryan Pringle was the first to go after lunch for 19. He took eight balls to get off the mark then hit Hutton for four, two, four and was looking set when he edged the same bowler to first slip.

Jamie Harrison, who bagged a pair in his last appearance at Scarborough, again failed to register before he prodded forward and lost his off stump.

Debut boy Barry McCarthy had the misfortune to go in just as the new ball was taken and after two scrambled singles Luke Wood swung one through his forward push to hit middle stump.

Richardson tried to farm the strike, but Chris Rushworth looked in little trouble in making 14 until he edged Hutton to slip.

That brought in Onions with Richardson on 92 and after hooking the fifth ball of a Wood over for four he tried to hit another boundary rather than looking for a single. A dot ball resulted and Onions fell two balls later.

With 12 overs to bat before tea, Brendon Taylor and Jake Libby survived comfortably in perfect batting conditions.