Bushrangers take down Warriors

A brilliant spell from Victorian spinner Jon Holland has condemned Western Australia to their third consecutive defeat and left their Matador BBQs One-Day Cup title defence in tatters.

Holland finished with figures of 3-36 as the Bushrangers successfully defended a target of 226 to breathe life back into their own campaign and leave the Warriors rooted to the bottom of the ladder as the only team without a win after 11 matches of the three-week tournament.

The 28-year-old Holland bowled 10 overs unchanged and picked up the key wickets of Michael Klinger, Mitchell Marsh and Cameron Bancroft, the latter bowled around his legs for 64.

Allrounder Glenn Maxwell also took three wickets to go with a polished half-century as Victoria bowled WA out for 189 to win by 36 runs.

Some late hitting from Dan Christian and John Hastings had earlier saved Victoria from a low total after WA had reduced them to 6-103 in the 30th over.

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Both natives of NSW – Hastings grew up in Penrith, just 30km west of Blacktown International Sports Park – the duo combined for an 81-run stand before Hastings fell for 38 from 44 balls, including two sixes.

Christian then took up the attack, smacking two sixes and two fours in a 66-ball innings of 60 not out as the Bushrangers finished with 8-225 from their 50 overs.

The Warriors now face a must-win game against the Cricket Australia XI on Thursday before equally important matches against Tasmania on Saturday and Queensland on October 21.

Victoria have moved to second on the ladder with matches against South Australia, NSW and Tasmania still to come.

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Warriors spinner Ashton Agar said his teammates "felt sick" after the loss and now faced the challenge of needing to win their remaining three group games.

"We absolutely do. We have no choice now," Agar said.

"It's extremely disappointing to lose that game. Everyone feels sick in the rooms. We're a lot better than that and we need to show that.

"We have to analyse our performance and look at the positives and keep doing them really well. And we look at where we can get better and make sure we nail that next game.

"We're a team that can do that and we just have to fight really hard.

"We've done it before so there's no reason why we can't do that again and try to win these next three games."

Holland said the win put the Bushrangers back on course to win the title after they had been given a wake-up call by captain Matthew Wade following their shock loss to Queensland on Friday night.

"He's an angry little man, he's always roasting us," Holland said with a smile.

"We were all disappointed (after the Queensland game). No one likes losing. We had a fair chance to win that game and it would have put us in a good position. Every game now we must win.

"We really needed to win this game so it puts us back in the mix.

"I think we're a massive chance to win the tournament. Our chances are as good as anyone's, especially with our batting, just about everyone's played or toured for Australia and we're really confident.

"If our boys fire, we'll be hard to beat."

The Warriors had begun steadily in their run chase, with Test squad members Bancroft and Shaun Marsh putting on 53 for the first wicket before the left-hander departed for 16 from 50 balls.

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Holland was then introduced into the attack and removed Klinger with his second ball before he had Mitch Marsh caught behind for 5 in his third over.

Having lost 3-22 and facing a required run rate above six runs an over, captain Adam Voges joined Bancroft to rebuild the innings.

Bancroft brought up his fifty from 76 balls but his dismissal in the 35th over - bowled around his legs by Holland as he attempted a sweep shot - was the beginning of the end for the Warriors.

Voges top-edged a sweep from Maxwell's first ball to perish for 27 and the off-spinner cleaned up the tail to finish with 3-30 from five overs.

Earlier, left-armers Joel Paris and Jason Behrendorff had done the early damage for WA, with Paris removing Australia opener Aaron Finch for a first ball duck, before left-arm spinner Ashton Agar picked up the crucial wickets of Maxwell and Matthew Wade in the middle overs.

Maxwell posted a composed 51 from 57 balls before he was trapped in front by Agar, who then removed captain Wade for four with a smart return catch.

Agar, Mitch Marsh and AJ Tye all took two wickets apiece, while Nathan Coulter-Nile finished with 0-35 from 10 overs in his first match since suffering a hamstring injury during Australia's one-day series against England last month.

Star Victorian quick James Pattinson also took 0-35 from 10 overs, continuing his impressive return to domestic cricket after several years dogged by injury.