South Australia captain Michael Klinger denies the Redbacks camp is in tatters after a nightmare week that culminated in the departure of coach Mark Sorell on Tuesday.
Sorell stepped down immediately when he was advised by SACA director of cricket Jamie Cox that his contract would not be renewed at the end of the season.
The announcement came after Redbacks suffered a heartbreaking three-run Ryobi One Day Cup loss to New South Wales on Sunday, while Wednesday's 67-run defeat to Victory capped off a horror four days for South Australia.
Klinger said the Redbacks had prepared for the Bushrangers as they would have any other game and admitted, along with interim coach Jeff Vaughn, he will be taking on more responsibility in the wake of Sorell's departure.
"Obviously it's only been about 24 hours or so," he said.
"But we all came in yesterday and had a meeting and prepared really well for this game. We came in and had a pretty good game and but had a pretty poor second half."
"Myself along with Jeff Vaughn and Mark Parody, who is our bowling coach, are stepping up now, that's definitely our responsibility and we've got to make sure the group comes together tomorrow and starts preparing well for the four-day game."
Klinger affirmed the fallout of the past few days will not affect how the playing group move forward with the SA skipper preparing to turn his attention to the four-day match against Victoria.
"It is a professional sport we're playing in and this sort of thing happens," he said.
"Unfortunately it's happened to our group this season and we've just got to move on from here and Vaughny and Mark Parody have taken the reins for the moment and they boys have just got to get behind them and behind me and make sure we come out and play some good cricket."
While the Redbacks claimed the first-innings' point, the home side failed to maintain the pressure in the second stage with Bushrangers' pair Rob Quiney and skipper Cameron White producing a record 171-run fifth-wicket stand to steer the visitors to victory.
Quiney posted his maiden one-day century, the fifth-fastest in domestic history coming off 64 deliveries before he was taken three balls later on 103, while White chipped in with an impressive 72 runs.
Klinger lamented a slow start after the break and some wayward bowling, before applauding the effort of the Victorian pair, setting SA a near impossible task of 212 runs in 25 overs.
"It was a very good first half of the game, we went into the break pretty confident," he said.
"I think we just let them get a bit of momentum in the first five overs and from there they batted pretty well. We probably didn't execute our plans with the ball as well as we would have liked."
"You've got to be pretty precise with your plans and the bowlers have to bowl to it and unfortunately we didn't get it quite right today, which obviously makes it hard to set appropriate fields."
"Credit to the batters as well, Quiney and White, they batted really well. To get them to that score made it pretty tough for us chasing eight and half runs an over in the second half."