SQUAD SET FOR SPRING SERIES

Updated

A squad containing seven contracted WBBL Heat players has been confirmed for the Spring T20 Challenge that features the eight Big Bash clubs as well as the ACT Meteors.

The pre-season games will be spread between Sydney and Adelaide, with Brisbane’s opening game against the Thunder at North Sydney Oval tomorrow morning.

Each team will play four matches before the top four play off in the semi-finals and final. State based players will turn out for their WBBL clubs.

All 18 regular season games will be played across seven days, starting this Friday, before the semi-finals on Saturday, October 19 and the final on Sunday, October 20.

The Weber Women’s Big Bash League will begin officially on Sunday 27 October with a bumper double-header at the Adelaide Oval featuring the Heat taking on the Strikers and the Melbourne Renegades playing the Sydney Sixers,

Brisbane has also contracted Wests allrounders Ruby Strange and Lilly Bassingthwaighte, their club mate Lilli Hamilton, Valley keeper-batter Kira Holmes and Valley top order batter Lucy Bourke from outside its current WBBL Heat squad for the Spring Challenge.

Bassingthwaighte, Holmes and Bourke are all contracted players with the Queensland Fire while Strange is a member of the QC Academy that was established earlier this year.

Strange, 21, is a two-time winner of the Kath Smith Medal as the best player in the Katherine Raymont Shield in the KFC Queensland Premier Cricket competition.

The Gladstone product is a right-handed bat and right-arm medium fast bowler who has captained Queensland at youth level. She was a member of the Queensland Country Brolgas team that won the Toyota Australian Country title last season and was chosen in the honorary Australian team.

The 21-year-old Holmes has played three WNCL games for Queensland while Bourke is in her first season as a Fire squad member.

Holmes (Allora), Bourke (Warwick) and Lilli Hamilton (Toowoomba) all learned their cricket on the Darling Downs.

Off-spinner Hamilton, no relation to Lucy Hamilton, was included in the Australian Under-19 squad that played in the Tri-Series against New Zealand Sri Lanka recently.

Bassingthwaighte, also an Australian Under-19 allrounder, made her WNCL debut for Queensland last week, playing two matches against WA.

Queensland and WBBL Heat captain Jess Jonassen and Australia 'A' leg-spinner Grace Parsons will remain in Brisbane as part of their player workload management plan.

The Heat will add an additional player to their squad in due course.

Matches will be live-scored and streamed through cricket.com.au and streamed on Kayo.

2024-25 T20 SPRING CHALLENGE 

Fri, 11 Oct; Sydney Thunder v Brisbane Heat (North Sydney Oval), 9am Qld time.

Sat, 12 Oct; Sydney Sixers v Brisbane Heat (North Sydney Oval), 6pm Qld time

Mon, 14 Oct; ACT v Brisbane (Allan Border Oval, Sydney), 9am Qld time

Wed, 16 Oct; Adelaide v Brisbane (Karen Rolton Oval, Adelaide) 10am Qld time

Sat, 19 Oct; 1 v 4 (Cricket Central). 2 v 3 (Cricket Central, Sydney)

Sun, 20 Oct; Final (Cricket Central, Sydney)

T20 Spring Challenge – Brisbane Heat Squad

8. Georgia Redmayne (Wests, wk) (c)

1. Charli Knott (University of Qld) (v-c)

3. Lilly Bassingthwaite (Wests)

5. Lucy Bourke (Valley)

4. Sianna Ginger (Valley)

10. Lilli Hamilton (Wests)

16. Lucy Hamilton (Sunshine Coast)

12. Nic Hancock (University of Qld)

11. Laura Harris (University of Qld)

13. Kira Holmes (Valley, wk)

9. Ruby Strange (Wests)

2. Mikayla Wrigley (Sunshine Coast, wk)

Coach: Mark Sorell