New South Wales captain Stuart MacGill has signalled that more changes to his team's line-up are nigh after the Blues tumbled to a morale-sapping ten wicket loss at the hands of Victoria in the teams' Pura Cup clash in Sydney today.

"There are a lot of guys (in our side) with ability. But before too long selection panels will begin rewarding not potential but results - and that's fine by me," vowed MacGill after he had watched the visitors again outplay his team on the match's third day.

"You can't expect to be selected just because you have a good name and some talent … you have to realise that five or four shots doesn't make a good innings."

The Blues - who sat atop the table earlier in the season - inherited last place on the Pura Cup ladder from their opponents as they tumbled to defeat late on the match's third day.

Again confounded by the left arm pace of Mathew Inness (4/67), the home team's batsmen were guilty of lapses in concentration at crucial times today, something they could ill afford on an occasionally capricious pitch and in the face of some more freaky good fortune for the Bushrangers.

Middle order batsmen Graeme Rummans (60) and Mark Higgs (52) battled against the odds with a plucky. But the tone for a bad day for the home team was established by the loss of oft-stubborn opener Greg Mail (26) to the first delivery of the day and was rarely reversed.

"I hope these young blokes playing for New South Wales at the moment will have a look at the fact that that we are last on the ladder and see that they are underachieving," added MacGill.

"That (we are underachieving) is a gross understatement."

"I was very pleased with Mark Higgs and Graeme Rummans today because I thought they played their natural game whilst still being watchful.

"(Playing loose shots) has been a recurring problem with some of the emerging batsmen for the last couple of years and I hope that batsmen like 'Higgsy' and 'Rummo' will emerge," MacGill said.

"That sort of application has been absent from our game, pretty much throughout the season.

What was also absent was an inability to counter the pace and movement of Inness and the consistency of his new ball partner Ian Hewett (3/63).

Hewett uprooted Mail's off stump and promptly created more trouble for New South Wales when - for the second time of the match - he somehow found a way to run a batsman out at the non-striker's end after deflecting the ball on to the stumps in his follow through. Night watchman Dale Turner (2) was the unlucky victim this time after Michael Clarke had perished the same way in the first innings.

Higgs, Rummans, Clarke (42) and Brad Haddin (41) defied the inevitable but, with a huge deficit to eradicate and a further day still available, Victoria's progress toward only its second outright win of the season generally remained smooth.

Man of the match Inness again played a major role, using the second new ball to trap Higgs lbw with a sharply cutting delivery; skid a ball under Rummans' bat as he sought to defend; lure Don Nash (5) into lashing a high catch to point; and deceive Haddin with a dramatic reduction in pace.

"It speaks for itself," commented Victorian captain Matthew Elliott of Inness' outstanding eleven-wicket haul for the match.

"Especially with Paul being out and him stepping into the role as the more senior bowler in our attack.

"He is always a credit to himself and I think he is just starting to reap the benefits."

Needing only 59 runs to complete their team's victory, openers Elliott (35*) and Jason Arnberger (23*) polished off the target in little over an hour.

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