Melbourne, March 28 -- Victoria's super-sub Mitch Perry stole the show with an iconic Sheffield Shield final moment as Fergus O'Neill's all-round heroics put Victoria on the brink of glory on a bizarre and eventful third day at the Junction Oval.

Sam Elliott, who won a tight selection battle over Perry leading into the five-day decider, suffereda hamstring injury and was able to be replaced by Perry only minutes before South Australia commenced their second innings under a Cricket Australia injury-substitute rule trial.

It triggered a chaotic sequence of events with the Vics' fielding substitutes, but when Perry was thrown the ball on Saturday afternoon, the right-armer nipped his first ball back into SA captain Nathan McSweeney's pads an...