Lowest Big Bash score defended: Full list of Lowest scores in BBL history

Dixit Bhargav | 30/12/2021
Lowest Big Bash score defended: Full list of Lowest scores in BBL history

Lowest scores in BBL history: The lowest-ever Big Bash League innings total is the 46th lowest total in the T20 format.

The 25th match of the ongoing 11th season of the Big Bash League between Sydney Sixers and Brisbane Heat in Sydney was a quintessential low-scoring thriller which encompassed a last-ball finish.

Chasing a paltry 106-run target, defending champions Sixers were shockingly reduced to 47/8 in the 13th over before the pacer-duo of Sean Abbott (37 not out) and Ben Dwarshuis (23 not out) made stellar use of their batting skills to put together a match-winning 59-run partnership for the ninth wicket.

In a partnership which missed out on becoming the highest-ever for the ninth wicket in the BBL by a run, ‘Man of the Match’ Abbott managed to score a run off the last ball of the match to seal a cliffhanger of a run-chase at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Apart from top-scoring in the match, Abbott was also the best bowler with bowling figures of 4-0-31-4.

Had Heat defended this target, it would’ve been the second-lowest score to be defended in the history of the BBL. It is worth mentioning that Heat have already defended three out of BBL’s five lowest-ever scores.

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With a total of 211 runs scored in this match, it ranks 20th on the list of lowest match aggregates in the BBL. While this is Sixers and Heat’s fifth and sixth appearance respectively in this list.

Lowest scores in BBL history (table updated on January 26, 2023)

S. No. Score Overs Team Opposition Venue Year
1 15 5.5 Sydney Thunder Adelaide Strikers Sydney Showground Stadium 2022
2 57 12.4 Melbourne Renegades Melbourne Stars Docklands Stadium 2015
3 60 10.4 Melbourne Renegades Sydney Sixers Bellerive Oval 2020
4 61 11.1 Melbourne Stars Sydney Sixers Sydney Cricket Ground 2021
5 62 14.4 Sydney Thunder Sydney Sixers Sydney Cricket Ground 2023
6 68 14.2 Adelaide Strikers Melbourne Stars MCG 2021
7 69 15.2 Perth Scorchers Melbourne Stars WACA 2012
8 73 16.4 Brisbane Heat Sydney Sixers SCG 2018
9 74 13.4 Sydney Sixers Melbourne Stars MCG 2019
10 76 15.5 Sydney Sixers Sydney Thunder Sydney Showground Stadium 2020

Lowest Big Bash score defended (table updated on January 26, 2023)

S. No. Score Overs Team Opposition Venue Year
1 77 (D/L Method) 5 Brisbane Heat Sydney Thunder Sydney Showground Stadium 2020
2 115/3 10 Brisbane Heat Melbourne Stars Carrara Oval 2021
3 116/5 12 Sydney Sixers Melbourne Stars Sydney Cricket Ground 2021
4 117/7 16 Sydney Sixers Sydney Thunder Stadium Australia 2012
5 117/7 20 Perth Scorchers Melbourne Renegades Western Australia Cricket Association Ground 2013
6 120/9 20 Hobart Hurricanes Brisbane Heat University of Tasmania Stadium 2023
Post Edited By: Dixit Bhargav
BBL 11 Big Bash League Brisbane Heat Sydney Sixers

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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