VAC vs NSW 7th Match Prediction

VAC vs NSW Team Previews

Victoria

The Victorian outfit played their last game of the Sheffield Trophy against Queensland. The Queensland leg spinner Mitchell Swepson picked up a fifer for Queensland on their last day of the match to put a damper on Victoria's prospects of drawing this game. By the time the third day of this game was over, Victoria was already looking down the barrel of another defeat. Matt Renshaw scored a superb hundred for Queensland on the second day of the game. After Renshaw's hundred, Neser and Clayton inflicted more misery on Victorian bowlers.

The most worrying aspect for Victoria in this game was their top 3 batters viz. Marcus Harris, Campbell Kellaway, and Travis Dean all failed in their second inning. Victoria was in total disarray when they slumped to 87 for 7 after a terrific spin-bowling spell from Mitchell Swepson. He picked up the wicket of Sam Harper on the very first delivery he bowled. Although there was a bit of a fight provided by Todd Murphy and Peter Handscomb on day 4, they were bowled out for 144 runs eventually.

Victoria did reach 144 before they lost the wickets of Handscomb and Murphy. They lost their last 3 wickets without adding to the score. This was the second comprehensive beating the Victorians have had to endure after the loss against Western Australia in their first game. They were hammered in that game against Western Australia in Perth as well by an innings and 53 runs. These two big defeats would have dampened the spirits of Victoria. It will be tough to strike back from this loss for the Victorians.

New South Wales

The winless run for New South Wales in the Sheffield Shield competition has extended to 14 games. However, the good news is that they will have the services of Nathan Lyon available for the match against Victoria. The New South Wales skipper and former test player Kurtis Patterson has been dropped from their team for the game against Victoria. Similar to Victoria, the NSW has also had to endure a winless start to the season. This is the second time during the year Patterson was dropped from the side.

Blake Diamond will come into the side. He made his first-class debut in the final match of the last season against South Australia. New South Wales has not managed to win a single game from their 14 Sheffield Shield games since February 2022. They might have won the last game they played but were denied by the efforts of Michael Neser and Jimmy Pierson. That apart, they were defeated comprehensively by South Australia in the city of Adelaide when they failed to reach a figure of 200 runs and were bowled out for 183 and 136 runs in their two innings.

Lyon is expected to play in this game and a couple of games after that for New South Wales against Tasmania and Western Australia ahead of the test series. This omission for Patterson will continue some difficult years for the batters after reaching the Australian test team against Sri Lanka in the 2018-19 season. Chris Tremain did a good job in the first inning of South Australia picking up 4 wickets for 57 runs. Jackson Bird also picked up 3 wickets for South Australia. Jack Nisbet was leading wicket-taker for New South Wales picking up a fifer for 53 runs.