RESULT
4th match, Melbourne, November 04 - 07, 2017, Sheffield Shield
322 & 370/8d
(T:348) 345 & 273/8

Match drawn

Player Of The Match
103, 1/18 & 93
jake-lehmann
Report

Maxwell fires second fifty as Victoria claim draw

Jake Lehmann won the Player-of-the-Match award for his double of 103 and 93 as South Australia fell two wickets short of outright victory over Victoria

South Australia 322 (Lehmann 103, Boland 4-71 ) and 8 for 370 dec (Ferguson 182*, Lehmann 93, Tremain 3-60) drew with Victoria 345 (Harris 103, Sayers 3-62, Worrall 3-62) and 8 for 273 (Maxwell 64, Mennie 4-39)
Scorecard
Ashes aspirant Glenn Maxwell made his second decent score of the match before South Australia fell two wickets short of outright victory over Victoria on the final day of the Sheffield Shield match at the MCG.
By following up a first innings 60 with 64, Maxwell showed the sort of consistency the national selectors want from him if they are to consider retaining him in the top six for the first Test against England at the Gabba later this month.
But he was unable to go on to a match-shaping hundred, and after the captain Peter Handscomb and Aaron Finch also fell soon after passing 50, the Bushrangers had to scrap to avoid defeat in the closing overs.
Joe Mennie, who played his one Test match in Hobart last year, claimed four vital wickets for the Redbacks, but was curiously unused when SA's captain Travis Head threw the second new ball to Daniel Worrall and Chadd Sayers with four overs remaining and two wickets required. Peter Siddle and Scott Boland were able to survive, which amounted to the honours being shared. Jake Lehmann won the Player-of-the-Match award for his double of 103 and 93 - scores that added him to the list of players for the Test selectors to consider.

Daniel Brettig is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. @danbrettig

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TEAMMWLDPT
QLD1061355
TAS1053247.55
VIC1032539.91
WA1035237.09
NSW1035234.37
SOA1026229.04