Ricky Ponting hammered South Australia before Tasmanian paceman Luke Butterworth turned the screws on Wednesday's second day of the Sheffield Shield match in Adelaide.
Ponting cracked seven sixes in an unbeaten 85 as the Tigers amassed 3 (declared) for 403.
Butterworth then sliced through wafer-thin batting resistance from the Redbacks, who crashed to 7 for 93 at stumps.
Butterworth claimed 5 for 29 and South Australia, winless in its past 17 Shield matches, lost 5 for 10 in a spectacular collapse.
Strokeplayer Callum Ferguson (48) and second-gamer Sam Miller (23) were the only batsmen to reach double-figures.
They came together after Butterworth took two wickets in four balls to leave the home side 2 for 9.
Butterworth's first victim was South Australia recruit Phil Hughes, who made 3 before being caught at third slip in identical fashion to the dismissals which curtailed his Test career last summer - an angled fend across his body producing a nick to the cordon.
Butterworth then trapped Tom Cooper lbw for a third-ball duck before Ferguson and Miller steadied with a 63-run stand.
But Butterworth returned for a second spell to have Miller caught behind - the first of five wickets in a seven-over span.
All-rounder James Faulkner took the other two wickets as Tasmania seized complete control, despite almost three hours of play being lost to rain on the second day.
AAP
Tags: cricket, sport, adelaide-5000, sa, hobart-7000, tas, australia First posted October 10, 2012 19:39:02
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