Five wickets from left-arm quick James Faulkner have helped Tasmania roll South Australia for a first-innings total of just 112 in the Sheffield Shield match at Bellerive.
Faulkner finished with the superb figures of 5-23 from 12 overs, his third Shield five-wicket haul, as the Redbacks crashed from 1-51 to be all out late on a rain-delayed day one.
Test paceman Ben Hilfenhaus tuned up for the Test series against South Africa with 2-25 from 13 overs, in his first long-form match since April, while Luke Butterworth (2-14) and an out-of-sorts Jackson Bird (1-46) leant support.
It was Faulkner, though, who made a collapse look on the cards when he grabbed two wickets in the 26th over, leaving the visitors 4-51.
He later grabbed the key wicket of Dan Christian, trapping him lbw for eight, for SA to find themselves 6-68.
In a telling sign for the struggling Redbacks, it was left to debuting opener Sam Raphael to equal top score with skipper Johan Botha, both making 22.
Hilfenhaus had made the initial breakthrough, dismissing Raphael, and removed linchpin Callum Ferguson (5) to make it 5-66.
Conditions didn’t help the visitors, who were sent in by Tigers’ skipper George Bailey, with the morning session lost to persistent drizzle and the temperature in Hobart hovering below 10 degrees.
As well as Hilfenhaus, Test squad members Ricky Ponting, Ed Cowan and Nathan Lyon are using the match as a final hitout before the series opener against South Africa at the Gabba from November 9.