That's it for now. This is Rajarshi Das, signing off on behalf of my co-commentators, Manan Mehta, Deepak Prakash, and scorer/analyst, Dushyant Madhukar Kumar. See you later!
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A remarkable victory for New South Wales; they are now at the top of the points table. Still early days in the Cup, though - there's a lot of cricket still to play. Victoria will be gutted - they came into this game on the back of a thriller against Queensland, which they won with 1 delivery to spare, but no one from their top or middle order showed up to play a match-winning knock today. The fact that they let New South Wales off the hook with the ball will hurt them even more; Victoria had the best possible chance to dismiss the visitors for a paltry total.
Player of the Match: Nic Maddinson.
4:52 PM IST, 9:22 PM Local Time: A tremendous fightback from New South Wales sees them emerge winners away from home. They were in strife earlier today, losing half their side for 86, but then found their way back, mainly thanks to a hundred from veteran opener Nic Maddinson. They then went on top display a great exhibition of fast bowling, never really letting the hosts gather control of the run-chase at any stage. None of the Victorian batters were able to convert their starts into a big, match-winning knock, and that proved costly for them.
There was a lot of extra bounce off the wicket, and the ball was hooping around - both off the air and off the pitch. Ben Dwarshuis accounted for Harry Dixon using a bit of both in the first over, having him caught at deep third. Matthew Short and Tom Rogers looked to stabilize the innings and see the new ball off, which they did. Rogers, though, was going too slowly, and in trying to break free, he tried slogging Tanveer Sangha across the line and was caught. Victoria were in a bit of bother nine deliveries later, when Matthew Short nicked behind off Charles Stobo.
Blake Macdonald and Will Sutherland then looked to consolidate. The duo went on to raise a 50-run partnership, and were looking at relative ease at the middle. But Victoria's troubles began soon after - Sutherland, Macdonald and Glenn Maxwell departed in the space of Overs 28 to 31. Liam Blackford, coming into this game on the back of a match-winning hundred against Queensland at the Allan Border Field, batting at 7, tried to put up a fight with the rest of the lower order. However, the support from the lower order turned out inadequate, and the required rate kept rising. New South Wales, having kept the squeeze on all along, bundled the hosts out for 212, Blackford being the last man out.
Earlier today, Nic Maddinson bailed New South Wales out of trouble and took them to a respectable total, scoring 126 off 127 deliveries. NSW were reduced to 42 for 3 as Harry Hoekstra helped Victoria get to their middle order by dismissing Riley Kingsell, Lachlan Shaw and Oliver Davies. New South Wales then slipped to 86 for 5 after a brief counter-attack from William Salzmann, but Maddinson was still there, going strong. He eventually found an able partner in Jake Scott, and they went on to stitch a 112-run partnership which got New South Wales past the 200-mark.
With the innings heading towards its close, Maddinson, along with Charles Stobo, accelerated and took NSW past 250. They were bowled out with a delivery to spare, finishing with 257 on the board. Rain made an appearance towards the latter half of the innings; the contest was reduced to a 49-over-a-side affair. Victoria needed 260 to win as per the DLS method, and they fell well short of it.