Western Australia beat Victoria by 24 runs in the Twenty20 Big Bash game at the WACA Ground on Sunday night.

WA batted first and made 5-152 on a slow pitch and and then bowled well to restrict Victoria to 8-128.

The win put the Warriors in the box seat for a home preliminary final, while the Bushrangers are in danger of missing out altogether now.

The Warriors started well with Wes Robinson and Shaun Marsh putting on 57 in seven overs for the first wicket and then had help from Luke Pomersbach with with 32 from 19 balls and Luke Ronchi (31 from 28).

The Bushrangers bowled well with Dirk Nannes starring with 2-15 from four overs while Jon Holland claimed 2-27 and John Hastings 1-30.

Victoria started slowly, losing Matthew Wade for six and Brad Hodge 12.

Cameron White and David Hussey tried to get things going but they still needed 101 runs from the last 10 overs.

The pair hit three sixes in their 46-run stand before White was caught in the deep for 31 from 28 balls.

Hussey fell in the next over for 18 off 21 balls to leave the Bushrangers 4-74 and needing 77 from the last seven overs.

Hopes took a further dive when Dwayne Bravo fell for just seven caught in the deep off Aaron Heal. That gave the left-arm spinner the figures of 2-22.

Aaron Finch hit one massive six off Nathan Coulter-Nile up to the scoreboard on the bank, but he was run out soon after by Ronchi for 14 to leave Victoria needing 39 off the last two overs.

They didn’t get close to pulling off the huge finish with Hastings caught in the deep for one, Andrew McDonald for 32 and the Bushrangers fell 26 runs short.

Brad Knowles claimed 3-20 for the Warriors, with Noffke also taking 2-23.

Earlier, without injured import Chriss Gayle at the top of the order, Robinson and Marsh got WA off to a terrific start, racing to 57 inside the first seven overs before Robinson fell for 34.

WA was then 1-57 after seven overs and then quickly 2-59 when Marsh was out for 19 caught in the deep trying to hit left-arm spinner Holland out of the park.

Ronchi and Pomersbach hit Bravo and Holland straight down the ground for sixes respectively and added 36 before Ronchi was clean bowled by Nannes when he moved right across his stumps trying to flick the ball down to fine leg.

Pomersbach continued his cameo and moved to 32 with three fours and a six before also being clean bowled by Nannes. Theo Doropoulos then finished with seven (12 balls) and Noffke 13 (seven) got WA to the score of 152.

West Australia coach Tom Moody was delighted with how his team bounced back from a slightly below par score to bowl exceptionally and record the comfortable win.

“I felt we were probably 15 short of what we should have been,” Moody said of the batting.

“We felt around 165-170 was where we needed to be and we obviously fell short of that.

“The pleasing thing was that we assessed the conditions very quickly and executed superbly. Our bowling and fielding performance won us the game hands down.”

The Victorians were feeling positive chasing 153 for the victory, but never got close and captain David Hussey wants all of the Bushrangers’ batsmen to take responsibility.

“Most definitely 150 was gettable. I think it was under par and our batters have to have a good hard look at themselves,” Hussey said.

“We’ve failed three times now and we need one player to go out and get a significant score, and nobody’s doing that.”

© AAP 2012

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