James Pattinson showed plenty of aggression in a frightening spell of bowling as Victoria claimed five second-innings wickets to stay in the hunt after day two of its Sheffield Shield clash with Western Australia.
Western Australia reached 5 for 76 at stumps on Friday, an overall lead of 105 on an MCG pitch offering assistance to the pace bowlers.
Tom Triffitt is 20 not out and Adam Voges is unbeaten on 8.
At Bellerive Oval, South Australia moved to 7 for 225 at stumps on day two against Tasmania, opening up a lead of 199 runs.
Travis Head, 18, scored 75 and together with a valuable 50 off 59 balls from Dan Christian, helped the Redbacks take command of the match.
Jackson Bird finished the day with 3 for 48 to lead the way for the Tigers.
Victoria had resumed on Friday on 0 for 21 in reply to the Warriors' 248 and the home side were dismissed for 219 at tea, including number 10 Clint McKay's 65.
McKay (2 for 20) followed up his career-best score by claiming the early wickets of debutant Sam Whiteman for a duck and Test batsman Mike Hussey for 3 in the Warriors' second innings.
Jayde Herrick removed opener Marcus Harris (29) caught at second slip with the score on 47 and two runs later Test quick Pattinson struck a double blow.
Marcus North (13) fended a rising delivery to third slip and Mitchell Marsh was bowled between bat and pad for a third-ball duck.
Pattinson finished the day with 2 for 19 from 10 overs in an encouraging performance ahead of next week's first Test against South Africa in Brisbane.
"I had a bit of trouble against Tassie (taking 0 for 89 and 2 for 24 last week) on a flatter wicket, but I always thought I was there or thereabouts," Pattinson said.
"I just found some rhythm in that last spell and felt pretty good.
"I've had a good preparation leading into the first Test and I'm just looking forward to, hopefully, getting these five wickets pretty early tomorrow morning.
"When you're in a rhythm like that you don't really think about speed, it just sort of happens.
"When I try and bowl fast it never really happens. It's funny, it just clicks.
"It felt like I was hitting Wadey's (wicketkeeper Matthew Wade's) gloves pretty hard."
Earlier, Western Australia's fifth-gamer Jason Behrendorff took a career-best 4 for 29.
The 22-year-old left-arm quick's victims included Victoria's top order of Chris Rogers (43), Peter Handscomb (13) and Cameron White (0).
McKay's 65 came off 51 balls and included six fours and two sixes, which were both off the bowling of spinner Michael Beer.
Pattinson (18) and fellow tailender McKay added 83 runs for the ninth wicket after the Bushrangers had been 8 for 135.
Victoria's other major partnership was the fourth-wicket stand of 71 between Rogers and Aaron Finch (34).
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Tags: cricket, sport, vic, australia, melbourne-3000, hobart-7000, tas, sa, wa First posted November 02, 2012 20:04:00
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