Melbourne Stars vs Brisbane Heat Head to Head

Brisbane's Edge and Where It Was Won

The Stars won the first meeting, on 20 Dec 2011, and also the one in 2013-14. Then Brisbane strung together five straight wins, running through to the end of 2017-18. The three seasons after that were all shared, before the Stars took both games in 2021-22 and the Heat answered with both in 2022-23.

The surprise is the venue record. Brisbane have won 6 of 8 meetings at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the Stars’ own ground, which is a better return than their 6 wins from 10 at the Gabba. Three of the Heat’s five biggest wins came at the MCG.

Batting first or second has hardly mattered: 11 wins for whoever batted first, 10 for the chasers. A typical first innings here is worth about 170, the average across all 21 games.

Stoinis, Lynn and Swepson: Melbourne Stars vs Brisbane Heat Players

MP Stoinis (Marcus Stoinis) has made 511 runs for the Stars in 18 innings, more than anyone, and his 3 match awards are also a high. He came closest to a hundred too, with 99 off 51 balls in Brisbane in Dec 2017, yet the Heat’s 206/7 that night proved enough. CA Lynn is Brisbane’s top scorer with 383, and M Bryant’s 330 average 66.00 and came at 161.76 runs per hundred balls, both the best among the top ten.

With 20 wickets at 17.05, Brisbane leg-spinner MJ Swepson heads the bowling. A Zampa has 16 for the Stars. S Badree took 5/22 in his only game in this fixture, on 14 Jan 2016, the one five-wicket haul between these teams. XC Bartlett’s 4/10 on 1 Jan 2025 came in a losing cause, as the Stars won by 5 wickets.

For the club-wide numbers, see the Heat’s BBL records and the Melbourne Stars BBL records.

Biggest Wins and Totals

One game stands above the rest. On 7 Dec 2023 at the Gabba, the Heat made 214/3, the highest total in this rivalry, with C Munro unbeaten on 99*. The Stars were then bowled out for 111 in 15.1 overs, their lowest total against Brisbane, and lost by 103 runs.

Brisbane also hold the next two biggest wins, a 71-run win in Melbourne (Jan 2020) and a 56-run one in Jan 2016, plus a 10-wicket win in Brisbane in Feb 2019. For the Stars, the most emphatic result is an 8-wicket win at home in Jan 2022. Their best total is 207/9 at the Gabba on 27 Dec 2021, a game they won by 20 runs.