Register free now<\/a><\/p>\nVictoria could hardly stop Mitch Perry in his wicket celebration. (Photo by Robert Cianflone\/Getty Images)Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Perry\u2019s strike followed O\u2019Neill and Boland\u2019s strangling start, before Will Sutherland claimed the dangerous Jason Sangha with a long-hop. <\/p>\n
Elliott\u2019s absence was quickly forgotten with the ball, but felt around the Victorian dressing room.<\/p>\n
As Perry prepared to come in, the Vics turned to batting coach Ben Rohrer to field but he was denied a place on the field as a non-contracted player.<\/p>\n
The Vics then called upon Jai Lemire, who was watching on from the stands with family, and Xavier Crone who had spent the day in the commentary box.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s always frustrating when it\u2019s against you. It\u2019s a s**t rule unless you make the most of it. In saying that, we could do the same, we\u2019re allowed to do the same (reciprocate) until the end of play,\u201d South Australian coach Ryan Harris said at stumps.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs it the right rule? It has been all year, it\u2019s not as though it\u2019s just come in for this game. It is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n
Victoria earlier captured a dominant lead through O\u2019Neill and a rotating door of partners.<\/p>\n
Nathan McSweeney left a ball the umpire deemed on track to hit the stumps. (Photo by Robert Cianflone\/Getty Images)Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
After taking 3-30 off 23 overs in the first innings, O\u2019Neill took the Vics from 5-127 \u2013 71 behind SA \u2013 to a lead of 61.<\/p>\n
One of O\u2019Neill\u2019s partners, Marcus Harris (40), cut a confused figure when he was given out caught behind off the bowling of Liam Scott at 5-157.<\/p>\n
Scott almost had two in as many balls, launching a heartfelt appeal to the umpire after he struck Will Sutherland on the pad first ball.<\/p>\n
South Australia continued to chase Sutherland\u2019s and O\u2019Neill\u2019s front pads, but the straight line was punished through the leg side.<\/p>\n
Victorian Fergus O\u2019Neill is doing it with bat and ball this Sheffield Shield final. (Photo by Robert Cianflone\/Getty Images)Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Sutherland, who has averaged 54.75 since the Big Bash League break, clubbed a short ball over the fence to hand Victoria a first-innings lead.<\/p>\n
The short ball ploy eventually opened the door for South Australia after Sutherland dragged a pull shot onto his stumps.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Neill added 30 with Harris, 55 with Sutherland and 31 with Elliott before running out of support.<\/p>\n
Perry was able to take a breath at stumps, saying he had endured a rollercoaster of emotions over the past few days.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, obviously plenty going on,\u201d Perry said post play.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t really describe it, that\u2019s never happened to me, obviously it\u2019s happened against us.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was pretty cooked after about two and a half overs, charging around, getting ready to my warm-up, doing my run-up, and then going out there to bowl.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was actually pretty cooked, I can\u2019t describe it, to be fair, but the last few days have been pretty mixed emotions.\u201d<\/p>\n
The hope of a South Australian miracle rests with Alex Carey, who finished the day unbeaten alongside Scott.<\/p>\n
Scott survived a pair of LBW shouts in the shadows of stumps before Boland and Victoria were convinced he was caught behind in the last over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From despair to jubilation. Victoria has one hand on the Sheffield Shield title after a dominant day three…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-570694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570694","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=570694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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