Queensland 183 and 1 for 3 trail Victoria 9 for 300 dec (Handscomb 92, Fraser-McGurk 51, Swepson 4-75) by 114 runs

Seventeen-year-old Jake Fraser-McGurk weathered plenty of verbal treatment from Queensland on the way to a highly promising half-century in his first Sheffield Shield innings for Victoria, before Mitchell Swepson scooped a hat-trick for the Bulls and Peter Siddle struck in the day's final over.

Fraser-McGurk, the youngest Victorian debutant since Cameron White, showed off a pump-action pull amid plenty of batting panache, also advancing to loft Swepson over his head into the MCC members' enclosure. He was guided through the innings by captain Peter Handscomb, who delivered a sensible 92 before being adjudged lbw to Mark Steketee with the first ball after tea, also the first delivery with the second new ball.

That wicket ushered in something of a collapse from the Victorians, as Swepson arrowed his legbreaks into the pads of Will Sutherland, James Pattinson and Siddle in consecutive balls spread across two overs, picking up a hat-trick that was, at least in the case of the Pattinson decision, a tad on the fortunate side for the bowler.

Two overs were possible in the closing passage of the day, and Bryce Street was pinned lbw by Siddle within that time. The wicket fell before the umpires chose to conclude the day with rain coming down, but not before a nightwatchman had emerged in the form of Cameron Gannon.

The timing of the closure, before Gannon had actually made it all the way to the middle, meant that the Bulls captain Jimmy Peirson could be seen querying whether or not Gannon has to bat at No. 3 on the third morning.