Live: Rain helps Bulls skittle WA

Phillip Hughes flays a Victorian bowler to the boundary line. Source: Wayne Ludbey / News Limited

QUEENSLAND have taken full advantage of a rain-affected WACA deck on day one of the Sheffield Shield match after Western Australia elected to bat first.

Rain in Perth meant that the start of play was delayed three and-a-half hours before the teams eventually took the field at 2pm and in just 29 minutes before the rain fell again, WA lost on-fire opening batsman Marcus North for four when caught behind off Luke Feldman.

There was another 27-minute delay before the teams reappeared and WA No.3 batsman John Rogers continued the underwhelming start to his Shield career over the past 12 months falling for just four when Nathan Hauritz caught him in the gully off captain James Hopes.

WA were then 2-20 and soon after 3-34 when Test aspirant Ben Cutting took the ball for the Bulls and he got a full-toss to swing in to WA opener Cameron Bancroft, and the 21-year-old was trapped plumb in front and on his way for 16.

Voges and Shaun Marsh tried valiantly to survive until tea, but in the final over before the interval Voges edged a ball into his pad off Cutting only for it to lob up to lob Nathan Reardon.

The umpires sent Voges on his way to leave WA 4-45 at tea with Shaun Marsh not out on four and Mitch Marsh yet to score.

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Ben Dunk smashes a boundary during the Sheffield Shield match against NSW. Source: News Limited

At the MCG, Victoria poor Sheffield Shield form has continued as Australian Test reject Phillip Hughes guided South Australia to a first innings lead.

Hughes (77 not out) will resume this morning as the Redbacks posted 3-163, a lead of 45, in reply to Victoria's calamitous first innings of 118.

The Bushrangers won the toss and elected to bat, but went on to make their lowest score against the Redbacks in 50 years.

Victoria coach Greg Shipperd pulled his batsman into a long post-match meeting to dissect the disappointing day.

"118 on the back of 198 in the first innings in Perth has really asked some serious questions about our defensive skills in particular," Shipperd said.

In the third game, Ben Dunk and Tim Paine put on 143 for the fifth wicket to help Tasmania out of a hole on day one against NSW at Bellerive.

Coming together at 4-118, the two keeper/batsmen steered the home side to 6-299 at stumps after skipper Paine won the toss and elected to bat.

For the Blues, Sean Abbott (2-56) and Gurinder Sandhu (2-66) bagged two wickets apiece, while a fired-up Doug Bollinger (1-72) bowled without luck.

The 26-year-old Dunk notched his fifth half-century of the Shield season before he chopped Sandhu on at 5-261.

Paine looked set to post just his second first class ton but cut a Trent Copeland ball straight to Abbott at point with the score 6-283.

Follow all the action and get live updates from our reporter on the ground, Mark Hayes, in our live blog below.

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