Brisbane Heat vs Adelaide Strikers Head to Head Record

Heat vs Strikers: how the lead has changed hands

Through the early years the two clubs met once a season and swapped wins. Adelaide then won the single 2017-18 game and two of three in 2020-21, the pick of those an 82 run thumping in Adelaide on 21 Jan 2021.

Brisbane’s purple patch came next. Starting on 29 Jan 2021 they won five of six, sweeping 2022-23 and taking the lone 2023-24 fixture. Some were close calls, including a 6 run escape in Brisbane on 23 Dec 2022, but the Heat kept finding a way. Since then each season has finished 1-1.

The Brisbane Heat vs Adelaide Strikers games of 2020 showed both sides at their best. On 14 Jan 2020 the Heat chased successfully at home with 7 wickets in hand as James Pattinson took 5/33; three days on, Adelaide dismissed them for 100 and knocked off the runs without losing a wicket.

Across all 22 games the side batting first leads 12 to 10, and first-innings scores average 176. For the bigger picture, open Brisbane Heat in the BBL and Adelaide Strikers in the BBL.

Run scorers, Rashid Khan and the wicket takers

Only three runs separate the top three batters. Matt Renshaw (Brisbane Heat) has 345 at 43.12, Jimmy Peirson (Brisbane Heat) 344 and Matt Short (Adelaide Strikers) 342. Short also has a hundred, 109 from 54 deliveries in Jan 2025, and Alex Carey (Adelaide Strikers) reached 101 on 21 Jan 2021.

Chris Lynn appears twice on the list, with 212 for Brisbane and 206 for Adelaide, because these tables split players by the team they played for.

With the ball, one name stands above the rest. Rashid Khan (Adelaide Strikers) has taken 19 wickets in only 9 games, at a cost of 11.21 each while going for 5.92 an over. That 6/17 in Brisbane on 12 Jan 2022 skittled the Heat for 90, the smallest Brisbane score against Adelaide, and no one has bettered those figures. Peter Siddle (Adelaide Strikers) and Mark Steketee (Brisbane Heat) have 16 apiece.

Highest scores, totals and grounds

Josh Brown (Brisbane Heat) produced the fixture’s biggest innings at Carrara Oval on 22 Jan 2024: 140 from 57 balls, including 12 sixes. Brisbane posted 214/7 and claimed a 54 run victory.

That total was soon outdone. On 11 Jan 2025 at the Adelaide Oval, the Strikers hammered 251/5 , a platform for a 56 run triumph, and nothing else between these sides tops Brisbane’s 214/7.

The venue split is even. Brisbane lead 6-5 in 11 games at the Adelaide Oval, and the 10 games at the Gabba are level at 5-5. Neither side has turned its home ground into a fortress. For more BBL rivalries, see Brisbane Heat vs Hobart Hurricanes or the BBL records page.