{"id":330645,"date":"2025-12-06T02:36:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T02:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/330645\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T02:36:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T02:36:12","slug":"victoria-set-base-for-another-big-shield-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/330645\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria set base for another big Shield win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victoria have inflicted a late, major blow on day two of their Sheffield Shield clash at the MCG, leaving Western Australia struggling in their second innings<\/p>\n

Victoria v Western Australia | Sheffield Shield | Day 2<\/p>\n

Victoria’s Sheffield Shield dominance is continuing, taking a stranglehold of their clash with Western Australia at the MCG.<\/p>\n

Holding a 61-run first-innings lead after making 255 in reply to WA’s 194, Victoria delivered another blow just before stumps on day two on Friday.<\/p>\n

Mitchell Perry trapped former Australia opener Cameron Bancroft on the final ball of the third over to leave WA reeling at 1-4.<\/p>\n

Instead of Australia’s white-ball star Mitch Marsh arriving at the crease, spinner Corey Rocchiccioli was sent in as a nightwatchman.<\/p>\n

Rocchiccioli survived five overs with captain Sam Whiteman to get WA to stumps at 1-5, still trailing Victoria by 56 runs.<\/p>\n

Whiteman made just two from 24 balls, but did his job by getting to the end of the day without falling to the charging Victorian attack.<\/p>\n

On a tricky wicket, opener Blake Macdonald thrived for Victoria with 79, while Matt Short compiled 62.<\/p>\n

Victoria took their time building a lead, going at a run-rate of just 2.68 and batting for 96 overs.<\/p>\n

WA veteran Cameron Gannon bowled tirelessly, sending down 23 overs for figures of 5-47.<\/p>\n

Gannon takes five to keep Vics’ lead in check<\/p>\n

Rocchiccioli ended Victoria’s innings with his second wicket, finishing with 2-61.<\/p>\n

Despite struggling in the one-day cup and suffering a heavy loss to WA on Tuesday, Victoria have been dominating the Shield this season.<\/p>\n

Another win here would take them into the Big Bash League break with five wins from six matches, putting them in the box seat to host this season’s final.<\/p>\n

WA are on the bottom of the Shield table, having secured just one win this campaign.<\/p>\n

Sheffield Shield 2025-26 standings<\/p>\n

Team<\/p>\n

\n Matches played\n <\/p>\n

M<\/p>\n

\n Wins\n <\/p>\n

W<\/p>\n

\n Losses\n <\/p>\n

L<\/p>\n

\n Drawn\n <\/p>\n

D<\/p>\n

\n No results\n <\/p>\n

N\/R<\/p>\n

\n Deductions\n <\/p>\n

Ded.<\/p>\n

\n Batting Bonus\n <\/p>\n

Bat<\/p>\n

\n Bowling Bonus\n <\/p>\n

Bowl<\/p>\n

\n Total points\n <\/p>\n

PTS<\/p>\n

1
\n \"Victoria
\n Victoria Men
\n VIC<\/p>\n

5
\n 4
\n 1
\n 0
\n 0
\n 0
\n 5.32
\n 4.3
\n 33.62<\/p>\n

2
\n \"Queensland
\n Queensland Bulls
\n QLD<\/p>\n

5
\n 2
\n 1
\n 2
\n 0
\n 0
\n 8.18
\n 3.8
\n 25.98<\/p>\n

3
\n \"Tasmanian
\n Tasmanian Tigers Men
\n TAS<\/p>\n

5
\n 2
\n 2
\n 1
\n 0
\n 2
\n 3.34
\n 4
\n 18.34<\/p>\n

4
\n \"South
\n South Australia Men
\n SA<\/p>\n

5
\n 1
\n 2
\n 2
\n 0
\n 0
\n 2.43
\n 4.6
\n 15.03<\/p>\n

5
\n \"NSW
\n NSW Men
\n NSW<\/p>\n

5
\n 1
\n 3
\n 1
\n 0
\n 0
\n 3.32
\n 4
\n 14.32<\/p>\n

6
\n \"Western
\n Western Australia Men
\n WA<\/p>\n

5
\n 1
\n 2
\n 2
\n 0
\n 0
\n 1.61
\n 4.5
\n 14.11<\/p>\n

Legend<\/p>\n

M: Matches played<\/p>\n

W: Wins<\/p>\n

L: Losses<\/p>\n

D: Drawn<\/p>\n

N\/R: No results<\/p>\n

Ded.: Deductions<\/p>\n

Bat: Batting Bonus<\/p>\n

Bowl: Bowling Bonus<\/p>\n

PTS: Total points<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victoria have inflicted a late, major blow on day two of their Sheffield Shield clash at the MCG,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-330645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}