Queensland triumph by 78 runs

Queensland 6 for 416 dec and 5 for 201 dec (Philipson 74*, Stevens 67) beat Victoria 4 for 404 dec and 335 (Hodge 151, Arnberger 126, Noffke 4-78) by 78 runs
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Queensland beat Victoria by 78 runs after a tremendous fightback by Brad Hodge and Jason Arnberger at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. They put on 266 after losing Matthew Elliott early (1 for 11), and then watched the rest of their team fritter away the platform in a string of scores less than 15. from 1 for 277, Victoria stumbled to 335 all out.

Queensland had declared at 5 for 201 in the morning, giving Victoria 100 overs to score 414. For a long time it appeared that the move would backfire, until Arnberger and Hodge were dismissed in similar ways: pulling short deliveries by Mitchell Johnson straight to the fielder on the square-leg boundary. From there on it all went downhill, as Ashley Noffke grabbed 4 for 78 in 22 overs to help dismiss Victoria without further ado.