Victoria 0 for 38 trail South Australia 200 (Hunt 50, Sutherland 3-26) by 162 runs

Making a belated start to their season, which has followed two weeks of quarantine in Adelaide where they could only train in groups of four, a young Victoria attack took the honours on the opening day as they removed South Australia for 200.

Mitch Perry and Zak Evans were making their first-class debuts while Will Sutherland had five matches under his belt. They were complemented by the experienced duo of Scott Boland and Jon Holland, but the young trio did more than their share of the damage on a well-grassed surface.

To cap Victoria's day their openers, Marcus Harris and Will Pucovski, got through a testing last hour to leave them well placed to take advantage of the bowlers' good work.

Sutherland had the pick of the figures and claimed the two senior middle-order batsmen either side of lunch: Travis Head nicked an excellent delivery from round the wicket and Callum Ferguson edged a drive that he will want to forget.

The first wicket of the day had been Perry's maiden scalp when Conor McInerney top edged a pull and later Evans also got off the mark when Liam Scott edged to second slip.

It wasn't all the kids, however, with Boland getting Brad Davis caught behind and Holland's left-arm spin doing both an excellent holding job and chipping out two wickets. Holland's first of the day removed Henry Hunt, playing around a full delivery, after the opener had done the majority of South Australia's run-scoring.

That left the Redbacks in a hole at 5 for 76 and when Holland struck again, having Chadd Sayers caught at cover, they were 7 for 116 but they managed to haul themselves towards something respectable.

Harry Nielsen produced another valuable innings while Wes Agar provided a somewhat unexpected boost with a career-best 41, adding 34 for the last wicket.