After winning the toss and electing to bat first, Victoria lost Sam Harper early before recovering to 4-150 with contributions from Marcus Harris (44) and Peter Handscomb (36).
That brought Matt Short and debutant Jake Fraser-McGurk together, the pair putting on 95 for the fifth wicket in a crucial middle order partnership. Fraser-McGurk’s impressive innings came to an end on 54, while Short was caught looking to increase the run rate for a very impressive 88 from 85 deliveries.
Those two wickets sparked a late collapse from the home side, losing 6-20 to be bowled out for 265 in the final over of the innings.
New South Wales got off to a flying start in the chase, cruising to 1-143 in reply with the game seemingly in hand.
But a spirited fightback from the Victorian bowlers initiated a collapse of 4-39 from the visitors to put them on the back foot. Peter Siddle (3-40), Short (2-21) and Andrew Fekete (2-57) doing the damage to hand Victoria nail-biting win.
The full Victoria vs New South Wales scorecard is available here.
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