South Australian captain Graham Manou said his team has room for improvement despite recording a convincing nine-wicket win against Tasmania in their Sheffield Shield match at Adelaide Oval on Friday.
The Redbacks had the upper hand from late on day one and were deserved winners with most players contributing to the victory.
But Manou said the team could've hurt Tasmania more with both bat and ball.
"I honestly believe we probably missed a trick with our first innings. I thought the position we were in we could've pushed 500 and good sides will do that," Manou said.
"And yesterday with the ball, the (George) Bailey-(Luke) Butterworth partnership could've halted our progress in this game."
After struggling for several seasons, the Redbacks appear to be a team on the rise.
The result gives South Australia its fourth outright victory in a row (including three in a row to finish 2008-09) - a feat it last achieved in 1982.
But Manou said he and his team-mates were keen to keep the win in perspective.
"After the way we finished last season there's been some expectation building into the lead up for the season, so it's a very positive start," he said.
"But we are not getting ahead ourselves yet because our next challenge in this format is against I think the benchmark in Australian domestic cricket in Victoria."
Tasmania captain Bailey said his team lost the match on day one. The Tigers reached 5-149 with their top five batsmen getting a start but not posting big scores.
"It was probably a 450 wicket so we were 200 runs short there," Bailey said.
"The positive I suppose was that all our batters looked pretty good in getting to 30, the application has to be there to turn it into hundreds and probably more importantly to get a big partnership with a couple from the top six."
"At first-class cricket 30 (runs) is just not good enough."
Bailey said the team's second-innings batting collapse, which saw it lose its last five wickets for 11 runs, was frustrating and added his team needed to be more proactive in future matches.
"Full credit to South Australia, they worked us over for the whole game really. They were very disciplined with their bowling, very happy to bowl selflessly and for the team and set quite defensive fields," he said.
"We were probably a little defensive with our batting in terms of trying to combat that and take a few risks and spread the field. I thought we just sort of reacted to the bowling and the fielding and just sort of let things happen so that's something we also discussed."