Spectacularly inept South Australian batting gifted a three day victory to rampant Queensland, the Bulls marching the Redbacks to Pura Cup oblivion at Adelaide Oval.

After the visitors claimed an extra half hour with the Redbacks 7-80, last pair Paul Rofe (18) and Daniel Cullen (five) put their batting counterparts to shame by compiling 24, the biggest stand of the entire innings.

They made it to within five minutes of the close, but Cullen was taken at short leg by a juggling Lachlan Stevens off Ashley Noffke (2-27) to roll the Redbacks for 104, 280 runs away from a steep fourth innings target of 385.

Victory put the Queenslanders on top of the cup table with 16 points.

"We've lost two games at home, we've won in Perth, Melbourne and now in Adelaide, they're three pretty big wins for us," Bulls captain Jimmy Maher said.

"We've often been described as a fast bowling side, and we've won three games now on what are deemed batting friendly wickets with our quicks.

"It's nice to be sitting on top of both competitions."

The Redbacks' addled batting suggested the SA Cricket Association's midweek media criticism of its underperforming team had only served to deepen unease within the dressing room.

Ageless paceman Andy Bichel took advantage of some awful strokes to nab 3-13, well supported by Australian quick Mitchell Johnson (1-38), while man of the match James Hopes bowled accurately to claim a flattering 4-25.

Not even SA captain and perennial saviour Darren Lehmann could offer any significant resistance, guiding Hopes to second slip for 22.

The Bulls had been bowled out for 363 to set it up, with solid innings by Clinton Perren (80), Hopes (77) and Shane Watson (68) guiding the Bulls into a commanding position.

Watson's runs were commendable from a man who sustained a serious 5cm tear to his left hamstring that will keep him from any bowling whatsoever for at least three weeks - scuppering his Ashes chances and placing his World Cup spot in doubt.

The home side's batting woes unfairly overshadowed career-best match figures for Jason Gillespie, whose 5-69 gave him match figures of 10-110 in 48 overs, surpassing his only other 10 wicket haul of 10-162 against NSW at Sydney in 2001.

Defeat handed SA three outright losses from as many home matches this season, and also left them without a pre-Christmas Pura Cup win for the first time since 1997-98.

The Bulls' dismissal soon after tea left SA 28 overs to the close, and it took Bichel only three deliveries to pin Daniel Harris lbw for a duck with a well-aimed off cutter.

Matthew Elliott (five) fenced at Johnson to be taken at second slip, Cameron Borgas (17) tried an ambitious back foot force and edged onto middle stump, and Mark Cosgrove drove without showing due care to the match situation or the width of the delivery.

Lehmann's departure extinguished all hope for SA, and Callum Ferguson and Shane Deitz lengthened sorry tale with a pair of anguished swishes at Hopes to be caught behind.

Cullen Bailey was bowled behind his pads by Hopes, only to be reprieved by umpire Dave Orchard's no ball call, but the extra half hour did for Gillespie, then Bailey, and finally Cullen.

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