Victoria and Tasmania remain the only winless teams in the Pura Cup after their match in Hobart meandered to a draw today.

Victoria, led by opener Matthew Elliott's unbeaten 135, produced a vastly improved batting performance through the final day to salvage some pride.

Its batsmen had to survive the day and did so with ease, finishing at 2-282 when the captains mercifully agreed to end the passionless contest early.

Tasmania took the two first innings points, but remain adrift of the pack challenging for a place in the final.

Victoria, finalists for the past two years, is still pointless.

The match started with a Victorian first innings collapse - all out for 139 inside two sessions - and ended with its unchallenged second innings occupation.

In between, Tasmania accumulated 9-527 against a depleted attack to ensure there could be only one winner.

Elliott and Jason Arnberger started today, after most of yesterday afternoon was lost to rain, at 0-38 and got the job half done with a stand of 105 which ate up 230 minutes.

After Arnberger was bowled by Shane Jurgensen for 33, Matthew Mott helped Elliott add another 80 before giving a bat-pad catch off Xavier Doherty when 33. For the rest of the long day, Elliott and Brad Hodge, who finished on 59, had batting practice.

Elliott's marathon innings, his first century of the season, was a study in concentration. He batted for 458 minutes, hit 16 boundaries and gave one very tough chance on 122.

The Tasmanian bowlers, admittedly minus allrounder Shaun Young who had an injured right thumb and labouring on a Bellerive Oval wicket that had lost all its early life, never looked like breaking through.

The best was Doherty, the left arm spinner who was making his first class debut and bowled with admirable control for a 19-year-old to finish with 1-55 from 28 overs.

Captain Paul Reiffel, who yesterday took his 331st first class wicket for Victoria to break Alan Connolly's record, found some positives in the game.

Although unhappy with the team's position on the table and with the first day batting, he said it had hung in well and fought hard.

Reiffel said that after the first day it was always going to be hard to bowl teams out and he was surprised that Tasmania batted on for so long.

"We probably would have given them a run chase, but they chose to bat us out of the game and then try to bowl us out," he said.

"We were always confident we could bat it out."

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