Victoria surges to drought-ending home victory over NSW Victoria's Fawad Ahmed appeals. Victoria has had little to savour in its home results in recent years, while Matthew Wade has had little to savour since assuming the captaincy in the middle of last year. Monday's result against New South Wales marked an emphatic shift in the form and fortune for both. Having ignominiously failed to win a match at the MCG last season the Bushrangers began this season with a commanding nine-wicket win over the Blues, completing a first-round Sheffield Shield trifecta of all home teams scoring outright wins. A relentless bouncer barrage from Chris Tremain (3-63) and the unerringly accurate leg-spin of Fawad Ahmed (3-49) were pivotal in allowing Victoria to dismiss the visitors for 271 five overs into the last session, leaving it a target of 131 from 33 overs. The required run-rate of four an over was rendered irrelevant by the batting of Marcus Stoinis, who surged to his half-century from just 37 deliveries and finished 84 not out from 63 balls. The 25-year-old demonstrated his ability to meld brutal striking with most textbook technique. This included blasting emerging paceman Gurinder Sandhu back over his head for six. While Stoinis and Rob Quiney (45 not out) batted nervelessly in the last session, reaching the target with 11.4 overs to spare, captain Wade was eager to ensure his bowlers were acknowledged for their ability to "create something out of nothing" and bowl out NSW for a second time on a pitch that remained ideal for batting. The final-day scalps of Scott Henry (52) and Kurtis Patterson (22) made the Blues' survival bid reliant on their two most senior batsmen: Ben Rohrer and captain Peter Nevill. Rohrer had to retire when the seventh delivery he faced, from Tremain, brutally struck the base of his helmet, behind his ear. The veteran collapsed and was taken from the ground on a motorised stretcher. It looked pretty nasty. It got him flush, had a very good connection. I knew straight away he was struggling," said Nevill, who was at the other end and finished unbeaten on 45. Thankfully he's just got back from the hospital and there's no major damage. He'll probably have a sore head tomorrow but hopefully there's nothing to stop him playing the next shield game. Nevill said the Bushrangers' comfortable victory was a reflection that, in their second innings, they were "chasing too small a score in too many overs." Under the newscoring system Victoria finished with 8.85 points, with NSW claiming 1.26. Former NSW paceman Tremain did not get a wicket until his ninth spell and 33rd over for his new state, although after lunch he was on a hat-trick. Wade praised the 23-year-old's hostile bowling. "He bowled with good pace; that's what we recruited him for," he said. We've obviously got [Jake] Reed and Tremain now, guys that both have good pace to really mix in with what our other guys do. Last year we probably lacked the out-and-out quick. It makes the other guys bowl so much better as well. New South Wales (1st Innings) N LARKIN lbw b Boland 10 R CARTERS c Hastings b Boland 14 S HENRY b Ahmed 63 K PATTERSON c Hussey b Ahmed 53 B ROHRER b Boland 70 P NEVILL c Handscomb b Hastings 87 P JACKSON c Wade b Boland 0 J LALOR c Wade b Boland 12 G SANDHU c Hussey b Boland 1 W SOMERVILLE lbw b Ahmed 7 J HAZLEWOOD not out 43 Sundries (2b, 3lb, 1nb) 6 Total 366 Fall of wickets: 18 (Larkin), 30 (Carters), 129 (Patterson), 170 (Henry), 234 (Rohrer), 234 (Jackson), 250 (Lalor), 252 (Sandhu), 277 (Somerville), 366 (Nevill). Bowling: C Tremain 16-2-56-0, M Stoinis 12-3-40-0 (1nb), J Hastings 23.5-7-50-1, S Boland 28-7-67-6, F Ahmed 29-4-102-3, D Hussey 4-1-15-0, D Christian 8-0-31-0. Victoria (1st Innings) R QUINEY c Nevill b Sandhu 43 D KING c Nevill b Sandhu 13 M STOINIS c Rohrer b Hazlewood 37 D HUSSEY c Carters b Sandhu 129 M WADE c Patterson b Hazlewood 59 P HANDSCOMB not out 108 D CHRISTIAN not out 105 Sundries (5lb, 1w, 7nb) 13 Total (5 wkts - decl) 507 Fall of wickets: 53 (King), 68 (Quiney), 130 (Stoinis), 269 (Wade), 301 (Hussey). Bowling: J Hazlewood 28-6-99-2, J Lalor 27-3-98-0, G Sandhu 28-3-96-3 (1w 7nb), P Jackson 14-0-91-0, W Somerville 24-2-104-0, B Rohrer 1-0-14-0 New South Wales (2nd Innings) R CARTERS c Christian b Stoinis 58 N LARKIN b Hastings 25 S HENRY c Wade b Tremain 52 W SOMERVILLE c Hastings b Stoinis 10 K PATTERSON st Wade b Ahmed 22 B ROHRER (retired hurt) 2 P NEVILL not out 45 P JACKSON c Quiney b Tremain 13 J LALOR lbw b Tremain 0 G SANDHU b Ahmed 10 J HAZLEWOOD b Ahmed 18 Sundries (10lb, 1w, 5nb) 16 Total (9 wkts) 271 Fall of wickets: 62 (Larkin), 104 (Carters), 142 (Somerville), 175 (Patterson), 177 (Henry), 207 (Jackson), 207 (Lalor), 239 (Sandhu), 271 (Hazlewood). Bowling: C Tremain 25-4-63-3 (1w 3nb), M Stoinis 13-2-41-2 (2nb), J Hastings 21-3-52-1, S Boland 18-2-56-0, F Ahmed 27-9-49-3 Victoria (2nd Innings) D KING c Jackson b Hazlewood 0 R QUINEY not out 45 M STOINIS not out 84 Sundries (1lb, 1nb) 2 Total (1 wkt) 131 Fall of wicket: 0 (King) Bowling: J Hazlewood 9-1-40-1, G Sandhu 6.2-0-48-0 (1nb), J Lalor 4-0-28-0, W Somerville 2-0-14-0 Result: Victoria won by 9 wickets Points: Vic 8.85, NSW 1.26.