Heat vs Strikers, 13th Match at Brisbane, BBL, Dec 27 2025 - Match Result

That has gone a mile up, and taken! That is all over Red Rover, and the youngster on debut has done the job for the Brisbane Heat! On the shorter side, tucking Nielsen up just outside leg. He swipes at it because he has no other choice and the ball spirals off the top edge. Fine leg settled under it nervously, indulges in a bit of a shimmy right at the end but most crucially, holds on, much to the delight of the thousands of Heat fans in the stands!

Oh dear - that is a wide! Short and speared way down leg. Nielsen does not get bat on it, and the umpire has an easy decision to make

Another slower ball dug into the track outside off. Nielsen swings like a rusty gate and only swats away a few flies in the process

Slower ball dug into the track on leg stump. Nielsen shows his hand early and shapes for the scoop. No pace to work with, though and he misses

Shortish outside off. Pope goes fishing at it and edges it down to deep third

Hasan Ali perishes, and this game goes back and forth again! Some moment to get your first BBL wicket, eh? Dug in short. Hasan thinks he can smite this over long on. Shanks it completely and long on does not err in his catching!

Nielsen lands his first punch now! Short, wide and sitting up. Nielsen unleashes and pummels it past extra cover for four!

Short and wide outside off. Nielsen gives it all he has and slaps it towards sweeper cover

oh, what a grab in the deep, or is it?! Hasan is going nowhere! Short ball to welcome the new batter. Hasan is cramped on the pull and he cloths it towards deep backward square. The sweeper runs in and then lunges forward to pick it up. Seemed in real time that he pouched it, but the fielder, after the initial optimism, was not entirely sure. Looks like the ball has bounced, and the third umpire agrees with that assessment, even though the 'soft signal' was out. A bit of drama at the Gabba. The Strikers still in this!

nicked and gone! And is that the game?! Length ball pushed across the batter wide outside off. Wadia's eyes light up and he throws the kitchen sink at it. Only manages a feather, though, and Peirson cannot believe the offering that has come his way. The Heat do not just have a sniff now, they are smelling a win!

Oh dear! Back of a length on middle and off. Nielsen has a mow at it and gets a top edge that then jams into his helmet. The protection near the back of the helmet flies off, but the good thing is that Nielsen is fine

Off-pace on a back of a length outside off. Wadia sits back and slaps it over extra cover. The third is on for all money but Wood, somehow, ends up way short of his ground on the third. Not sure what happened there. Some hesitation as Wood turned, and that was all the Heat needed.

Slower ball on a full length wide outside off. Wood swishes hard at it but also swishes way too early. Only a fresh air shot

On-pace short ball outside off. Swatted down to long on

Slower ball on a back of a length on leg stump. Wadia winds up and heaves it to the moon. When it comes down, though, it is just enough in front of deep backward square leg

Shortish outside off. Wood flays it towards backward point, who dives sharply to his left and stops it. A direct hit at the batter's end, and Wadia would have had to walk

Short shanks it, and Bartlett takes out his opposite number! Dug into the track outside off and this seems to hold a little. Short a tad early into his swipe and the bottom hand comes off as he swipes at it. Cloths it straight to long on, and this topsy-turvy game turns again!

Zipped in full on the pads. Short tugs it towards deep mid wicket and has enough time to get back for a couple of runs

Fuller on middle and leg. Short pokes it to extra cover and retains strike

Back of a length on off. Short jabs it towards extra cover. Wadia hares down for the single, only to be sent back. No damage done