South Australia is hopeful it can continue the momentum it gained in the rapid but fruitful final session on Tuesday and chase an outright victory in its Sheffield Shield match against Tasmania at Adelaide Oval.
Sporadic wet weather meant only 59.2 overs were bowled on the opening day of the clash and with more patchy weather forecast in Adelaide this week, time could ruin the Redbacks' aspirations of collecting maximum points.
However captain Graham Manou said his side hadn't ruled out an outright victory, especially after taking 2-1 in the seven overs after tea. Stumps were called only minutes after Dan Marsh was dismissed for 13 because of a late downpour of rain.
"If we don't lose any more time, I think we make all those overs up so hopefully it will still be a full four days," Manou said.
"What we've got to do is come out in the morning and continue the way we started today and obviously we are going to have to bat well - they've got some pretty impressive bowlers in their line-up."
"I think it's one of those games that will push to the end and hopefully we can play for six points that's for sure."
Manou said the abbreviated final session worked in his side's favour.
"Had that session played out for the 20 overs and we sort of meandered along, the state of play could've been a lot different," he said.
"We spoke about it in the rooms, with the stop-start affair of the day, that we really needed to every time we walked out to really make sure we were attacking in our disciplines."
"I think the boys really did that today which was the most pleasing aspect."
"I thought it was pretty challenging for everyone today, to go on and off, you really lose any momentum and rhythm in all aspects of the game so I think when you look at it over the day, both sides handled the conditions pretty well."
"We were quite fortunate to jump on a couple of lucky wickets towards the end of the day."
The miserable day at Adelaide Oval provided a stark contrast in atmosphere for Manou who is still on a high after making his debut for Australia in the Ashes.
In England he played in front of thousands of cricket fans and an even bigger television audience. On Tuesday, only a handful of Redbacks supporters braved the wintry weather conditions while Adelaide Oval is lacking its normal charm as construction work on the new members area is in full swing.
"It's a bit different but probably as noisy with the redevelopment but it was really nice to get out there and all of us were probably sick of playing preseason trial games," Manou said.
"You are still playing and representing a very good state and a very good side. Given the fact the with the leadership role you just take it (the Ashes tour) on board and you really get to draw on those experiences to help the guys out, so hopefully I can keep doing that."