ADELAIDE, Oct 18 AAP - Victoria lost four wickets in the opening session today to crumble to the verge of outright defeat at 6-185 at lunch on the final day of its Pura Cup cricket match against South Australia at Adelaide Oval.

The Bushrangers started the day at 2-94 in their second innings, needing an impossible target of 512 for victory, but more realistically aiming to survive until stumps.

But that also quickly became an unlikely result, when Brad Hodge (22), Graeme Rummans (48), Nick Jewell (30) and Cameron White (0) all fell in the morning session.

Darren Berry, on six, and Ian Harvey, on nine, were unbeaten at lunch and needed a long partnership to give Victoria any chance of holding out for a draw, with only tailenders to come.

Former Victorian off-spinner John Davison, playing his first game for SA, had the figures of 4-80, including the wickets of Hodge and Jewell today, while Ryan Harris took the other two wickets to fall.

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