Late wickets hurt Redbacks

Tasmania v South Australia, Sheffield Shield, Hobart, 1st day

South Australia 2 for 10 trail Tasmania 251 (Doolan 68, George 4-65, Christian 3-52) by 241 runs

The loss of two late wickets has soured a strong first day for South Australia in their Sheffield Shield clash with Tasmania at Bellerive Oval on Friday.

The Redbacks did a superb job with the ball dismissing the hosts for 251 in just over 80 overs.

But needing to see off 10 overs themselves late in the day the Redbacks struggled, finishing at 2-10.

Opener Daniel Harris was dismissed for one off the bowling of Adam Maher, while Redbacks skipper Michael Klinger fell for a duck to Luke Butterworth in the last over of the day.

George finished with 4 for 65 and Christian collected 3 for 52 as the Tigers lost wickets on a regular basis. The major source of resistance came from Alex Doolan, whose innings of 68 came to an end when he was bowled by Christian.

The 29-year-old former New South Wales fast man Tim Lang picked up his maiden first-class wicket when he had Ed Cowan caught behind early in the innings, but George was the main worry for Tasmania.

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New format hurts fringe players: Ponting

Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting says he's concerned the new domestic one-day format will hamper the World Cup preparations of fringe players.

Cricket Australia recently announced domestic one-dayers will now be split into two innings of 20 and 25 overs, in a break from the single innings 50-over format.

Ponting said he was concerned that the new format would limit the preparation for some of the players currently outside the national team ahead of the World Cup, which begins in February in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

"We need to be playing as much 50 over cricket as we can with the World Cup just around the corner," he told reporters in Hobart on Saturday.

"It'll be OK for the guys that are in the national side, we'll probably play another 12 or 13 one-dayers before the one-day World Cup comes around.

"They guys on the fringe that are playing domestic cricket won't play any 50 over games really until that World Cup. Probably for the young spinners around Australia in particular, they're going to find it difficult this summer."

"The players probably felt that they didn't have the input that they probably would have liked to have had," he said.

"I know there's been a lot of speculation about how it's going to be played, but it's up to the players now to play it as well as they can and make it a good spectacle."

Ponting said he would likely play two Sheffield Shield games for Tasmania this summer, but would not play any domestic one-day matches.