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Colours:
  
Teal

BBL wins:
  
1 (2012–13)

Official website:
  
brisbaneheat.com.au

Captain
  
Brendon McCullum

Location
  
Brisbane, Australia

Capacity:
  
42,000

CLT20 wins:
  
Nil

Arena/Stadium
  
The Gabba

Coach
  
Daniel Vettori

Founded
  
2011


Home ground:
  
Brisbane Cricket Ground

Profiles

The Brisbane Heat are an Australian men's professional twenty20 cricket team that competes in the Big Bash League. The Heat wears a teal uniform and are based in Brisbane in the Australian state Queensland. Their home ground is the Brisbane Cricket Ground.

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In their second season, they won the Big Bash League for the first time and thus qualified for the Champions League Twenty20.

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Big Bash League 2011/12

The team lost their first four matches, but – still with an outside chance to reach the semi-finals – won their last three matches and were just eliminated in the last match. Brendon McCullum missed some matches as he was playing HRV Cup in New Zealand simultaneously while Daniel Vettori missed few games because of injury while the original captain James Hopes missed the whole tournament because of injury. The team ended fifth out of eight on the points table.

Final

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Brisbane Heat defeated the Perth Scorchers in the 2012/13 Big Bash League final. The match was played at the WACA Ground on 19 January 2013.

Captain James Hopes was unable to play due to injury. Vice-captain Chris Hartley won the toss, and elected to bat first. Joe Burns top scored for Brisbane with 43 runs off 27 balls, in a total of 167 for the loss of five wickets. Jason Behrendorff took 2 wickets for the Scorchers.

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In reply, Perth Scorchers scored 133 for the loss of nine wickets from their 20 overs, losing by 34 runs. Adam Voges was the highest scorer with 49 runs from 32 deliveries. Barbadian Kemar Roach took 3 wickets for 18 runs. Nathan Hauritz was named man of the match after bowling three overs for 11 runs and taking three catches.

Big Bash League 2013/14

The team started well, winning their first game against the Perth Scorchers. However, they lost out in many close matches over the course of the season. The Heat struggled but, managed to finish the season in 5th place. There were good signs for the Heat as Cameron Gannon led all BBL wicket-takers, snaring 18 wickets at an average of less than 12 – with best bowling of 4–10. Daniel Vettori was also miserly with the ball, going for just over six an over and picking up 7 wickets. Chris Lynn was the best of the batsman scoring 198 runs closely followed by Dan Christian who made 186 runs at an average of 46.5.

Big Bash League 2014/15

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Brisbane Heat finished last in the league, with a record of 2–6, which led to the resignation of Stuart Law as coach, and James Hopes as captain.

Big Bash League 2015/16

Following the retirement of Daniel Vettori's playing career, he signed a 3-year contract to become the coach of the franchise.

Big Bash League 2016/17

Following the retirement of Brendon McCullum's international playing career, he returns as full participant for the Heat for his second stint for the franchise, this time as captain. He took no part last season due to BBL coincided with the final matches of his international career.

Domestic

  • Big Bash:
  • Champions (1): 2012–13
  • Runners-Up (0):
  • Minor Premiers (0):
  • Finals Series Appearances (1): 2012–13
  • Wooden Spoons (1): 2014–15
  • International

  • Champions League Twenty20:
  • Champions (0):
  • Runners-Up (0):
  • Appearances (1): 2013
  • Imported players

  • Brendon McCullum – New Zealand (2011,2015+, 2016-present)
  • Roelof van der Merwe – Netherlands (2011)
  • Daniel Vettori – New Zealand (2011–2014)
  • Thisara Perera – Sri Lanka (2012)
  • Kemar Roach – West Indies (2012)
  • Dale Steyn – South Africa (2012)
  • Craig Kieswetter – England (2013)
  • Andrew Flintoff – England (2014)
  • Stephen Parry – England (2014)
  • Samuel Badree – West Indies (2014–15)
  • += Did not play a game that season

    References

    Brisbane Heat Wikipedia