Big Bash League

This article is about the men's tournament. For the women's tournament, see Women's Big Bash League.

Big Bash League

Countries	Australia
Administrator	Cricket Australia
Format	Twenty20
First edition	2011–12
Latest edition	2023–24
Next edition	2024–25
Tournament format	Double round-robin and Knockout finals
Number of teams	8
Current champion	Brisbane Heat (2nd title)
Most successful	Perth Scorchers (5 titles)
Most runs	Chris Lynn (3725)
Most wickets	Sean Abbott (165)
TV	Seven Network Fox Cricket
Website	bigbash.com.au
2024–25 Big Bash League season

The Big Bash League (BBL) also known as the KFC Big Bash League for sponsorship reasons, is an Australian men's professional club Twenty20 cricket league, which was established in 2011 by Cricket Australia. The Big Bash League replaced the previous competition, the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash, and features eight city-based franchises instead of the six state teams which had participated previously. The competition has been sponsored by fast food-chicken outlet KFC since its inception. It was in 2016/17 one of the two T20 cricket leagues, alongside the Indian Premier League, to feature amongst the top ten domestic sport leagues in average attendance. The winner of BBL 13 (2023/2024) was the Brisbane Heat, who beat the Sydney Sixers by 54 runs in the final.

BBL matches are played in Australia during the summer, in December, January and February.

Out of the eight teams in the tournament, six have won the title at least once. The Perth Scorchers are the most successful team in the league's short history, having won the title five times including consecutively for two years twice. The Sydney Sixers have won the title three times, including consecutively for two years. The other four teams that have won the title are the Brisbane Heat, with two titles, and the Adelaide Strikers, Melbourne Renegades, and Sydney Thunder with one title each.

History

See also: KFC Twenty20 Big Bash

Trophy

A design contest was held in 2011 to determine the design of the Big Bash League trophy. The competition was restricted to Australian designers, with the final design, chosen by the public from a field of three, revealed on 13 December 2011.

Expansion proposal

Perth Scorchers taking on Hobart Hurricanes at the WACA in 2011

It had been proposed that the tournament would undergo expansion into more regional areas not supported by international cricket. The expansion was originally planned to be implemented in 2012. The proposed teams included: Newcastle, Canberra, Geelong, and Gold Coast. A New Zealand-based team was also mentioned as a possibility which would be based at Auckland or Christchurch, but this is unlikely to happen. The expansion proposal was suspended, mainly because the proposed cities lacked the proper cricket hosting facilities.

The current BBL champions are the Brisbane Heat winning against the Sydney Sixers at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

Shane Warne bowling against Sydney Sixers in 2011 at the SCG

In 2015, former Black Caps captain and Melbourne Stars coach Stephen Fleming suggested the expansion of the tournament to include New Zealand teams and become a trans-Tasman competition. He said an expansion into New Zealand would be widely supported by locals. His views were also supported by Brisbane Heat coach and former Black Caps captain Daniel Vettori. Melbourne Renegades chief executive Stuart Coventry also stated that he wants Cricket Australia to grant each club a fifth home fixture next season. Coventry said the BBL was ready to expand from 8 to 10 games, and adding matches would further establish the franchises.

In 2016, Anthony Everard, head of the BBL, flagged the league's intentions to approach expansion through a soft launch. He stated the short to medium term goal was to schedule BBL games involving existing franchises in regional markets before potentially adding new teams after the 2017–18 season when the broadcast deal expired. He also indicated the regional markets of Canberra, Geelong, Launceston, Gold Coast, and Alice Springs will likely host games during the soft launch period. On 27 January 2017, Everard announced an extra eight matches would be added to the 2017–18 season and implored each existing franchise to look at new markets when considering where the extra games would be played, although the lengthened season was not implemented until 2018–19.

In 2018, it was reported that the Gold Coast Suns were interested in securing a Big Bash League franchise if the competition was expanded.

Women's Big Bash League

Main article: Women's Big Bash League

Former women's Test captain and Head of Brisbane's Centre of Excellence, Belinda Clark, revealed on 19 January 2014 that planning for a women's BBL was in its early stages but could become a reality very soon. She stated that the proposal was being considered due to the huge rise in television ratings during the 2013–14 season, and the rise in women's cricket popularity.

On 19 February 2015, Cricket Australia announced that a Women's Big Bash League (WBBL) would commence in the 2015–16 season, with teams aligned to the men's competition. It was announced that the teams would share the names and colours of the existing men's BBL teams, meaning that there would be two teams from Sydney and Melbourne and one team from Adelaide, Brisbane, Hobart, and Perth.

The inaugural Women's Big Bash League was won by the Sydney Thunder against the Sydney Sixers by 3 wickets. The current champion from the 2022–23 Women's Big Bash League season is Adelaide Strikers who won their maiden WBBL title by defeating Sydney Thunder by 10 runs.

Christmas Day match

In December 2015, Cricket Australia revealed that they are looking into the possibility of hosting a Christmas Day BBL match in the coming years, possibly after the next season. If the proposal is passed, it would have been a first in the history of Australian sport since no professional matches had played in Australia on Christmas Day at that time. "It is something we have just recently started discussing, the possibilities of that. We're talking about playing a Christmas Eve match, we already play Boxing Day," CA's Executive GM (Operations) Mike McKenna said. This has not yet occurred, but in September 2018, it was reported that Cricket Australia had struck a deal with the Players Association to play BBL matches on Christmas Day.

Tournament format

Ben Cutting of Brisbane Heat batting against Melbourne Stars in 2014

Since the inception of the BBL in 2011, the tournament format has changed a number of times.

The first BBL season had 28 group stage matches, before expanding to 32 in the following season.

In previous seasons of the tournament, the group stage matches were divided into eight rounds, with four matches played in each round. Each team played six other teams once during a season, and one team twice. This allowed for both Sydney and Melbourne (which have two teams each) to play 2 derbies within a single season. Each team played eight group stage matches, four at home and four away, before the top four ranked teams progressed to the semi-finals. In the 2017/18 Season, the format changed so that there would be 40 group stage matches with each team playing 10 matches before the semi-finals. The season was held over a similar time-frame thus resulting in more doubleheaders (one game afternoon, one game night) and teams playing more regularly.

From the 2018–19 season, each team played all other teams twice during a season, for a total of 56 regular season matches before the finals series.

The 2023-24 season was shortened, with each team played ten regular season matches, playing three teams twice, and four teams once; for a total of 40 regular season games and 4 finals. This was in response to concerns that the 61 game season was too long.

The original BBL logo used up to 2014–15 season

The final of the tournament is played at the home ground of the higher-ranked team. The only exception to this rule was 2014–15 season when the final was played at a neutral venue (Manuka Oval), due to the 2015 Cricket World Cup.

In the 2018–19 season, the league introduced a 'bat flip' (instead of a coin toss) to decide who would bat/bowl first.

Up to the 2018–19 season the top four teams contested the finals, which consisted of two semi-finals and a final.

The finals structure was changed in the 2019–20 season to include a fifth team, and a "double chance" for the top two teams. The structure was a hybrid version of the Page–McIntyre final four system with the addition of 'The Eliminator' being the difference between the original and hybrid versions.:

• Eliminator – Fourth v Fifth
• Qualifier – First v Second
• Knock-Out – Third v Winner of the Eliminator
• Challenger – Loser of the Qualifier v Winner of the Knock-Out
• Final – Winner of the Qualifier v Winner of the Challenger

The BBL has reverted to a top four for the 2023/24 season, but kept the double chance for the top two teams:

• Qualifier – First v Second
• Knockout – Third v Fourth
• Challenger – Loser of the Qualifier v Winner of the Knock-Out
• Final – Winner of the Qualifier v Winner of the Challenger

Champions league

Before 2014, the top two teams in the tournament used to qualify for the Champions League Twenty20 tournament, which was an annual international Twenty20 competition played between the top domestic teams from various nations. The Champions League Twenty20 became defunct after its 2014 tournament.

Current teams

Scorchers

Strikers

Heat

Hurricanes

Stars

Renegades

Sixers

Thunder

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Location of Big Bash League teams

The competition features eight city-based franchises, instead of the six state-based teams which had previously competed in the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash. Each state's capital city features one team, with Sydney and Melbourne featuring two. The team names and colours for all teams were officially announced on 6 April 2011. The Melbourne Derby and Sydney Derby matches are some of the most heavily attended matches during the league and are widely anticipated by the fans. The Scorchers and Sixers have also developed a rivalry between them over the years and their matches attract good crowds and TV ratings.

A single city-based franchise can have a maximum of 19 contracted players for a season, with the squad including a minimum of two rookie contracts and a maximum of six overseas players, although only three international players can play in each match from 2020 to 2021 edition. Each team can also have a maximum of two overseas replacement players, in case the original overseas players get injured or withdraw.

Team		Location	Home ground	Coach	Captain
	Adelaide Strikers	Adelaide, South Australia	Adelaide Oval	Tim Paine	Matt Short
	Brisbane Heat	Brisbane, Queensland	The Gabba	Johan Botha	Usman Khawaja
	Hobart Hurricanes	Hobart, Tasmania	Ninja Stadium	Jeff Vaughan	Nathan Ellis
	Melbourne Renegades	Melbourne, Victoria	Marvel Stadium	Cameron White	Will Sutherland
	Melbourne Stars	Melbourne, Victoria	Melbourne Cricket Ground	Peter Moores	Marcus Stoinis
	Perth Scorchers	Perth, Western Australia	Optus Stadium	Adam Voges	Ashton Turner
	Sydney Sixers	Sydney, New South Wales	Sydney Cricket Ground	Greg Shipperd	Moises Henriques
	Sydney Thunder	Sydney, New South Wales	ENGIE Stadium	Trevor Bayliss	David Warner

Rivalries

Throughout the history of the tournament rivalries have been formed by competition between teams and by teams being in the same city.

Sydney Smash

The Sydney Smash is a game between the Sydney based teams, the Sydney Sixers and Sydney Thunder. This rivalry was started in the inaugural season due to both teams being from Sydney and being made up of New South Wales cricket team players. The Sixers have won 16 times to the Thunder's 7 but the game still attracts a large crowd for every game.

Melbourne Derby

The Melbourne Derby takes place between the two Melbourne based teams, the Melbourne Renegades and the Melbourne Stars. This derby is similar in nature to the Sydney Smash as the cores of both teams come from the Victoria cricket team and has been happening since the inaugural season of the competition. In BBL05 the game drew the largest crowd for a Big Bash game with 80,883 fans attending the game at the MCG.

Perth Scorchers - Sydney Sixers

The Scorchers/Sixers rivalry has developed over the competition's 12 seasons due to their unparalleled success. The Scorchers have won the title five times and Sixers have claimed the trophy three times. The Scorchers and the Sixers have both been runners up three times. They've met in the final on five occasions. The Scorchers have won three of those encounters and the Sixers two.

Tournament season and results

Perth Scorchers have won five titles and Sydney Sixers three. Both of these teams have won the title in consecutive seasons.

The Scorchers have reached the final of the tournament eight times. Out of the eight teams in the tournament, six have won the title at least once. Only two other teams (Hobart Hurricanes and Melbourne Stars) have reached the final at least twice. The other three teams which have won the title once are the Sydney Thunder in (2015–16), the Adelaide Strikers in (2017–18), and the Melbourne Renegades in (2018–19).

The WACA Ground has hosted the final on four occasions, the most of any venue.

Finals summary

Season	Final			Final host	Final venue	City/Town	Attendance
	Winner	Result	Runner-up
2011–12 Details	Sydney Sixers 3/158 (18.5 overs)	Sixers won by 7 wickets Scorecard	Perth Scorchers 5/156 (20 overs)	Perth Scorchers	WACA Ground	Perth	16,255
2012–13 Details	Brisbane Heat 5/167 (20 overs)	Heat won by 34 runs Scorecard	Perth Scorchers 9/133 (20 overs)	Perth Scorchers	WACA Ground	Perth	18,517
2013–14 Details	Perth Scorchers 4/191 (20 overs)	Scorchers won by 39 runs Scorecard	Hobart Hurricanes 7/152 (20 overs)	Perth Scorchers	WACA Ground	Perth	20,783
2014–15 Details	Perth Scorchers 6/148 (20 overs)	Scorchers won by 4 wickets Scorecard	Sydney Sixers 5/147 (20 overs)	Neutral venue	Manuka Oval	Canberra	11,837
2015–16 Details	Sydney Thunder 7/181 (19.3 overs)	Thunder won by 3 wickets Scorecard	Melbourne Stars 9/176 (20 overs)	Melbourne Stars	MCG	Melbourne	47,672
2016–17 Details	Perth Scorchers 1/144 (15.5 overs)	Scorchers won by 9 wickets Scorecard	Sydney Sixers 9/141 (20 overs)	Perth Scorchers	WACA Ground	Perth	21,832
2017–18 Details	Adelaide Strikers 2/202 (20 overs)	Strikers won by 25 runs Scorecard	Hobart Hurricanes 5/177 (20 overs)	Adelaide Strikers	Adelaide Oval	Adelaide	40,732
2018–19 Details	Melbourne Renegades 5/145 (20 overs)	Renegades won by 13 runs Scorecard	Melbourne Stars 7/132 (20 overs)	Melbourne Renegades	Docklands Stadium	Melbourne	40,816
2019–20 Details	Sydney Sixers 5/116 (12 overs)	Sixers won by 19 runs Scorecard	Melbourne Stars 6/97 (12 overs)	Sydney Sixers	SCG	Sydney	10,121
2020–21 Details	Sydney Sixers 6/188 (20 overs)	Sixers won by 27 runs Scorecard	Perth Scorchers 9/161 (20 overs)	Sydney Sixers	SCG	Sydney	25,295
2021–22 Details	Perth Scorchers 6/171 (20 overs)	Scorchers won by 79 runs Scorecard	Sydney Sixers 10/92 (16.2 overs)	Neutral venue	Docklands Stadium	Melbourne	10,333
2022–23 Details	Perth Scorchers 5/178 (19.2 overs)	Scorchers won by 5 wickets Scorecard	Brisbane Heat 7/175 (20 overs)	Perth Scorchers	Perth Stadium	Perth	53,886
2023–24 Details	Brisbane Heat 8/166 (20 overs)	Heat won by 54 runs Scorecard	Sydney Sixers 112 (17.3 overs)	Sydney Sixers	SCG	Sydney	43,153

Team summary by season

Team	2011–12	2012–13	2013–14	2014–15	2015–16	2016–17	2017–18	2018–19	2019–20	2020–21	2021–22	2022–23	2023-24
Adelaide Strikers	6th	5th	7th	SF (1st)	SF (1st)	6th	W	7th	KO (3rd)	EF (5th)	CF (4th)	7th	CF (4th)
Brisbane Heat	5th	W	5th	8th	6th	SF (2nd)	7th	5th	7th	CF (4th)	7th	RU (5th)	W
Hobart Hurricanes	SF (2nd)	6th	RU (4th)	5th	7th	7th	RU (4th)	SF (1st)	EF (4th)	6th	EF (5th)	6th	5th
Melbourne Renegades	7th	SF (1st)	6th	6th	5th	5th	SF (3rd)	W	8th	8th	8th	KO (3rd)	7th
Melbourne Stars	SF (4th)	SF (3rd)	SF (1st)	SF (3rd)	RU (2nd)	SF (4th)	8th	RU (4th)	RU (1st)	7th	6th	8th	6th
Perth Scorchers	RU (1st)	RU (2nd)	W	W	SF (3rd)	W	SF (1st)	8th	6th	RU (2nd)	W	W	KO (3rd)
Sydney Sixers	W	7th	SF (2nd)	RU (4th)	8th	RU (3rd)	5th	SF (3rd)	W	W	RU (2nd)	CF (2nd)	RU (2nd)
Sydney Thunder	8th	8th	8th	7th	W	8th	6th	6th	CF (5th)	KO (3rd)	KO (3rd)	EF (4th)	8th

Notes:

• W = Winner;
• RU = Runner-up;
• SF = Semifinalist;
• CF = Eliminated in the "Challenger" Final (loser of the Qualifier vs winner of the Knock-Out) (from 2020);
• KO = Knocked-out in the "Knock-Out" Final (3rd vs winner of the Eliminator) (from 2020);
• EF = Eliminated in the "Eliminator" Final (4th vs 5th) (from 2020);
• (1st–8th) = End of league games table position

Champions

Team		Total	Champion Seasons(s)
	Perth Scorchers	5	2013–14, 2014–15, 2016–17, 2021–22, 2022–23
	Sydney Sixers	3	2011–12, 2019–20, 2020–21
	Brisbane Heat	2	2012–13, 2023–24
	Melbourne Renegades	1	2018–19
	Adelaide Strikers	1	2017–18
	Sydney Thunder	1	2015–16
	Melbourne Stars	0	–
	Hobart Hurricanes	0	–

Wooden Spoons

The wooden spoon in Big Bash League is an imaginary and ironic "award" which is said to be won by the team finishing in last place in the Big Bash League.

Summary

Team		Total	Wooden Spoon Season(s)
	Sydney Thunder	5	2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2016–17, 2023–24
	Melbourne Renegades	3	2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22
	Melbourne Stars	2	2017–18, 2022–23
	Brisbane Heat	1	2014–15
	Sydney Sixers	1	2015–16
	Perth Scorchers	1	2018–19
	Adelaide Strikers	0	–
	Hobart Hurricanes	0	–

Season records

Season	Wooden Spoon	Pld	W	L	NR	BP	Pts	NRR
2011–12	Sydney Thunder	7	2	5	0	–	4	−1.250
2012–13	Sydney Thunder	8	0	8	0	–	0	−1.360
2013–14	Sydney Thunder	8	1	7	0	–	2	−0.654
2014–15	Brisbane Heat	8	2	6	0	–	4	−1.116
2015–16	Sydney Sixers	8	2	6	0	–	4	−0.330
2016–17	Sydney Thunder	8	3	5	0	–	6	−0.600
2017–18	Melbourne Stars	10	2	8	0	–	4	−0.926
2018–19	Perth Scorchers	14	4	10	0	–	8	−0.502
2019–20	Melbourne Renegades	14	3	11	0	–	6	−0.348
2020–21	Melbourne Renegades	14	4	10	0	4	16	−1.727
2021–22	Melbourne Renegades	14	3	10	1	5	16	−1.477
2022–23	Melbourne Stars	14	3	10	0	–	6	−0.287
2023–24	Sydney Thunder	10	1	7	2	–	4	−0.652

Salary cap

The salary cap was initially $1 million, and increased to $1.05 million for the third season. In February 2015, the salary cap increased to $1.3 million for the fifth season, and to $1.6 million for the sixth season.

In 2023-24 the cap was at $3 million AUD, with the ability to also have 2 players paid outside the cap.

Prize money

Cricket Australia increased the prize money for the BBL to a total of $890,000 for the four finalists from 2015–16 season, after the Champions League Twenty20 tournament was discontinued with effect from 2015. The prize money will be split between the teams as follows:

• $20,000 – To the team finishing fifth in the season
• $80,000 – To each losing semi-finalist
• $260,000 – To the Runner up
• $450,000 – To the Champion of the season

However, the additional cash increase of $600,000 will go to successful clubs and not their players. Up to the 2014–15 BBL season, a total prize money of $290,000 was awarded.

Audience

Attendance

Melbourne Stars vs Hobart Hurricanes at the MCG on 6 January 2016

Average home crowds for the season are listed below. These figures include finals matches. The figures for the whole season average include the finals. Post-Christmas matches have historically been the highest attended period for the League. BBL has provided a platform to create interest in playing cricket among younger children, due to its big hitting, high scoring and entertaining nature of the game.

The 2014–15 season saw record domestic cricket crowds in the states of South Australia, New South Wales, Tasmania and the ACT, including a record attendance of 52,633 at the Adelaide Strikers' home semi-final, which was then the biggest ever crowd at the redeveloped Adelaide Oval.

In the 2015–16 season, attendance figure records continued to be broken across all the venues. Perth Scorchers became the first ever BBL team to sell out all of its home matches in a season. On 2 January 2016, the BBL single match attendance record was surpassed, with a crowd of 80,883 watching the first of two Melbourne derbies between the Melbourne Stars and the Melbourne Renegades at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The Big Bash League also entered the top 10 most attended sports leagues in the world with respect to average crowd per match in this season.

Team	Home crowd average
	2011–12	2012–13	2013–14	2014–15	2015–16	2016–17	2017–18	2018–19	2019–20	2020–21^	2021–22^	2022–23	2023–24	Average
Adelaide Strikers	21,950	13,319	23,704	39,295	43,689	41,342	35,247	28,095	25,143	10,693	5,931	21,105	28,616	26,010
Brisbane Heat	17,072	15,897	23,708	24,701	29,353	34,375	32,980	22,343	23,167	12,693	8,751	16,699	19,570	21,639
Hobart Hurricanes	11,251	12,107	9,552	13,776	16,640	17,570	13,536	11,348	8,299	5,146	4,218	7,068	7,982	10,653
Melbourne Renegades	13,324	13,804	21,929	22,301	29,010	30,033	28,315	21,703	15,528	7,814	7,361	11,809	21,164	18,777
Melbourne Stars	27,424	21,426	19,951	27,698	40,298	49,578	31,628	21,541	21,447	9,300	9,678	16,320	20,690	24,383
Perth Scorchers	15,239	13,762	18,061	18,918	20,273	20,679	26,725	30,133	26,586	16,952	16,108**	31,167	31,144	21,981
Sydney Sixers	20,092	13,286	18,446	23,842	27,956	30,368	24,815	17,798	16,995	3,017	10,470	16,969	23,713	19,059
Sydney Thunder	18,423	10,278	14,866	17,938	19,333	20,688	15,432	12,461	10,888	4,177	7,345	10,111	13,982	13,532
Finals	15,222	17,568	15,286	27,888	42,182	25,642	43,334	22,854	12,691	25,295	5,632	25,726	25,756	23,467
Season average	17,749	14,196	18,781	23,538	29,443	30,122	26,528	20,554	18,520	8,992^	7,371^	16,720	21,505	19,540

^COVID-19 affected season

**Played one home game

Television

Australian television

BBL games are currently broadcast in Australia on free-to-air television by the Seven Network and subscription television by Fox Cricket. The Seven Network broadcasts 45 of 61 Matches including the Finals Series. Fox Cricket televises all 61 Matches including 16 Matches exclusively in 4K.

The rights were previously held by Network 10, who in 2013 paid $100 million for BBL rights over five years, marking the channel's first foray in elite cricket coverage.

Network 10's BBL coverage became a regular feature of Australian summers and attracted an average audience of more than 943,000 people nationally in 2014–15 season, including a peak audience of 1.9 million viewers for the final between the Scorchers and Sixers.

The 2015–16 season attracted an average audience of 1.13 million for each match in Australia this season, an 18% increase over the previous season. A cumulative audience of 9.65 million watched the matches in Australia, out of which 39% were women. The opening Sydney Derby match of the season attracted a peak audience of 1.53 million. The last group match between Renegades and Strikers in Season 2 was watched by an average audience of 1.36 million, which peaked at 1.67 million. The BBL Final was watched by an average audience of 1.79 million, which peaked at 2.24 million viewers. This was the first time that the ratings for a BBL match crossed the 2 million mark. The KFC BBL|10 Final reached 2.5 million viewers on Seven and 669,000 on Foxtel, capping an extraordinary season in which as players, officials, staff and broadcast partners successfully navigated through the many challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Grounds

See also: List of Big Bash League venues

A total of 17 grounds have been used to host BBL matches to date. Sydney Thunder moved out of ANZ Stadium after the 2014–15 season and relocated to Sydney Showground Stadium for the next 10 years. From 2020, the tournament Final has been played at the home ground of the team that wins 'The Qualifier', a playoff match contested between the 2 teams finishing 1st and 2nd in the League. The WACA Ground has hosted the final 4 times, more times than any other venue. Manuka Oval hosted the final of 2014–15 BBL season as a neutral venue primarily because other major grounds were being prepared for the 2015 Cricket World Cup.

Optus Stadium replaced the WACA Ground as the home ground of Perth Scorchers starting with the 2017–18 BBL semi-finals. Perth's home match against Hobart Hurricanes (and a doubleheader WBBL match featuring the Perth Scorchers and Sydney Thunder) became only the second public event at the new stadium.

In September 2017, the Adelaide Strikers agreed to play one home BBL and WBBL match at Traeger Park in Alice Springs over the course of the 2017–18 season. In 2018, they announced that one BBL and two WBBL matches would be held at Traeger Park for the 2018–19 and 2019–20 seasons.

Since 2017–18, the Melbourne Renegades have played two matches per season at Kardinia Park in Geelong, Victoria and the Hobart Hurricanes play multiple games at UTAS Stadium in Launceston, Tasmania.

Panoramic view of the SCG during a Big Bash League match in 2011. It is the home ground of Sydney Sixers.

Stadium	Capacity	City	Home team
Current Grounds
Adelaide Oval	53,583	Adelaide	Adelaide Strikers
Ninja Stadium	20,000	Hobart	Hobart Hurricanes
Marvel Stadium	53,359	Melbourne	Melbourne Renegades
Optus Stadium	60,000	Perth	Perth Scorchers
The Gabba	42,000	Brisbane	Brisbane Heat
Melbourne Cricket Ground	100,024	Melbourne	Melbourne Stars
Sydney Showground Stadium	22,000	Sydney	Sydney Thunder
Sydney Cricket Ground	48,000	Sydney	Sydney Sixers
Secondary Grounds
UTAS Stadium	21,000	Launceston	Hobart Hurricanes
GMHBA Stadium	26,000	Geelong	Melbourne Renegades
Traeger Park	10,000	Alice Springs	Hobart Hurricanes
Manuka Oval	12,000	Canberra	Sydney Thunder
People First Stadium	25,000	Gold Coast	Brisbane Heat Melbourne Stars
Ted Summerton Reserve	7,500	Moe	Melbourne Stars
Coffs Harbour International Stadium	20,000	Coffs Harbour	Sydney Sixers
Cazalys Stadium	13,500	Cairns	Brisbane Heat
Citi Power Centre	7,000	Melbourne	Melbourne Stars
Former Grounds
Accor Stadium	82,000	Sydney	Sydney Thunder (2011–2014)
WACA Ground	20,000	Perth	Perth Scorchers (2011–2018)

Records and statistics

Main article: List of Big Bash League records and statistics

Chris Lynn, the leading run-scorer in BBL history

Here is a list of Big Bash League records. All records are based on statistics at espncricinfo.com. Former Brisbane Heat player and captain Chris Lynn currently holds the record of scoring most runs in the league. The record of taking most wickets in the league belongs to Sean Abbott who currently plays for the Sydney Sixers. He has represented the Sydney Thunder in the past.

Batting Records
Most runs	Chris Lynn	3,725
Highest average	Laurie Evans	42.78
Highest strike rate	Tim David	153.58
Highest score	Glenn Maxwell	154* vs Hobart Hurricanes (19 January 2022)
Highest partnership	Marcus Stoinis & Hilton Cartwright	207 vs Sydney Sixers (12 January 2020)
Most sixes	Chris Lynn	208
Bowling Records
Most wickets	Sean Abbott	165
Lowest average	Adil Rashid	14.12
Best economy rate	Lasith Malinga	5.40
Best strike rate	Saqib Mahmood	10.50
Best bowling figures	Lasith Malinga	6/7 vs Perth Scorchers (12 December 2012)
Best bowling figures by a debutant	Daniel Sams	4/14 vs Sydney Sixers (19 December 2017)
Fielding
Most dismissals (wicket-keeper)	Josh Philippe	86
Most catches (fielder)	Jordan Silk	76
Team Records
Highest total	Melbourne Stars	273–2 (20) vs Hobart Hurricanes (19 January 2022)
Lowest total	Sydney Thunder	15 (5.5) vs Adelaide Strikers (16 December 2022)

^{Last updated on 24 November 2024}

*Batting: At least 10 innings must be played

*Bowling: At least 20 overs must be bowled

See also

• The Big Appeal
• Women's Big Bash League
• Cricket in Australia
• List of Big Bash League centuries
• List of Big Bash League records and statistics

External links

• Official website
• Schedule & Fixtures
• World Cricket Badger