David Hussey coasts Victoria to seven-wicket win

Victoria 3 for 248 (Hussey 94*, White 73*) beat Tasmania 8 for 246 by seven wickets
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David Hussey and Cameron White struck half-centuries in quick time to shut out Tasmania as Victoria eased to victory at Launceston. Chasing 247, Hussey and White put on an unbeaten 162-run stand for the fourth wicket and finished the match with 3.2 overs to spare.

Jon Moss and Michael Klinger (41) got Victoria off to a fine start with an opening stand worth 63 runs. Darren McNees dismissed Moss for 28 and followed up with the wicket of Lloyd Mash in the 21st over and when Klinger was bowled with the score on 86, Victoria had lost three wickets for 23 runs and had two new batsmen at the crease.

Tasmania's bowlers enjoyed no further success as Hussey and White stemmed the minor collapse and sealed a seven-wicket win. Hussey smacked 94 off 79 balls with seven fours and three sixes. White was relatively slower, taking 77 deliveries for his 73, punctuated with five fours and a six. McNees finished with superb figures of 2 for 28 off ten overs while the other bowlers copped some punishment.

After electing to bat, Tasmania got off to a terrible start, losing Michael Dighton for a duck. Travis Birt top scored with 41 and shared a 65-run partnership with Michael Di Venuto for the second wicket, the highest of the innings. Though several batsmen got off to starts, no one went on to make a big score and Victoria struck at regular intervals to reduce them to 5 for 116. George Bailey (34) and Adam Polkinghorne (35) put on 56 and the lower order chipped in to take the total to 246.