Pace duo Damien Wright and Darren Pattinson have routed Tasmania's top order to have Victoria on the verge of outright victory in their Sheffield Shield match at the MCG.
At lunch on day three, Tasmania was 6-29 in its second innings, after the Vics were dismissed for 362 earlier in the session giving them a lead of 160 on the first innings.
The Bushrangers expected to be made to work hard for the outright points they need to be guaranteed of hosting next week's Sheffield Shield final against the Bulls.
But the Tigers put up little resistance to the firestorm unleashed by Pattinson, who'd been under an injury cloud because of an ankle injury picked up during Tasmania's first innings, and Wright, who's in career-best form.
Pattinson struck first when he trapped Ed Cowan in front for two in the second over, then Wright chimed in with the wicket of Jonathan Wells in the very next over for one.
Alex Doolan and Rhett Lockyear advanced the Tigers' score to 16 when three wickets fell in the space of six deliveries.
Doolan was the first of those, caught behind by Matthew Wade off Wright for three.
The Victorians warmly applauded the retiring Dan Marsh to the crease for the final innings of his 17-year, first-class career, then wildly applauded Wright for removing the 36-year-old, third ball.
Marsh was adjudged lbw attempting to play an awful pull stroke that was never on.
That wicket was Wright's 33rd from his past five Shield matches.
Lockyear was next to go, palpably lbw to a full-toss from Pattinson and the next man in, Jason Krejza, was unable to stem the flow.
He got an edge to an attempted hook off Pattinson and was taken by Wade for just two leaving Tassie in utter disarray at 6-18.
And this, on a flat deck, in fine sunny conditions that were giving the bowlers no special assistance at all.
Earlier, the last two Bushrangers wickets added 30 after Pattinson and Wade resumed the Vics' first innings with the score at 8-352.
Pattinson added only one to his overnight score of seven when he was trapped in front by the Tigers' acting skipper Xavier Doherty.
But Bryce McGain was able to stay with Wade for long enough to allow the Bushrangers' 'keeper to bring up his 50.
That was where it ended for Wade who immediately holed-out to Tim Macdonald at deep backward square leg off Doherty who returned the figures of 3-41.
Wade's half-century was his seventh for the Vics in all forms of the game and fifth in the Shield this season.
Centuries from David Hussey (140) and Aaron Finch (102) on Thursday set up the Bushrangers' big innings lead.
Their 212-run third-wicket stand was the Bushrangers' best for any wicket this season, surpassing a stand of 181 between Chris Rogers and Brad Hodge against South Australia in Adelaide.
Tasmania first innings 222
Victoria first innings
Jewell c Marsh b Drew 28 (41)
Hill c Doolan b Drew 19 (64)
Finch c Doolan b Griffith 102 (158)
Hussey lbw Griffith 140 (189)
McDonald c Doolan b Griffith 1 (12)
Quiney c Cowan b Krejza 9 (19)
Wade not out 50 (90)
Hastings b Doherty 2 (14)
Wright not out 5 (12)
Pattinson lbw Doherty 8 (27)
McGain not out 0 (15)
Extras: 18 (8b, 6lb, 3nb, 1w)
Total: 382 (10 wickets, 99 overs)
1-48, 2-51, 3-263, 4-267, 5-288, 6-324, 7-336,