Adelaide Oval Stadium T20 records BBL: Adelaide Oval Adelaide T20 records and highest successful run chase in Big Bash League

Dixit Bhargav | 14/12/2022
Adelaide Oval Stadium T20 records BBL: Adelaide Oval Adelaide T20 records and highest successful run chase in Big Bash League

Big Bash League 2022-23 focus has moved towards Adelaide Oval as the iconic venue is all in readiness of hosting the second match of the ongoing season. Having last faced each other in BBL 2021-22 Challenger at the Sydney Cricket Ground earlier this year, Adelaide Strikers and Sydney Sixers will be kick-starting their BBL 12 campaign tonight.

Hosts Strikers have won 34 and lost 26 out of their 61 Adelaide T20s in the BBL. Sixers, on the other hand, have won and lost five matches each out of their 10 contests at this venue. Moreover, Adelaide (8.33) also have a better run rate than Sydney (7.88) whilst playing here in spite of the visitors doing better in head-to-head records.

Adelaide Oval Stadium T20 records BBL

Highest run-scorers in BBL matches played at this stadium are Jake Weatherald (1,101), Jonathan Wells (999), Alex Carey (889), Travis Head (776) and Tim Ludeman (567). Needless to say that all these batters play for or have played for Strikers in the past.

Highest BBL wicket-takers at the Adelaide Oval are Peter Siddle (52), Rashid Khan (44), Ben Laughlin (33), Kane Richardson (30) and Michael Neser (30). Other than Siddle and Khan, next on the list in Wes Agar (28) is also part of the current squad at Strikers.

Highest BBL innings totals in Adelaide

Four out of the Top Five highest innings total in BBL matches played at the Adelaide Oval have come since the start of 2020.

Score Overs Team Opposition Year
232/5 20 Sydney Thunder Sydney Sixers 2021
220/1 20 Hobart Hurricanes Adelaide Strikers 2020
208/7 20 Brisbane Heat Adelaide Strikers 2021
207/8 20 Adelaide Strikers Hobart Hurricanes 2020
206/5 20 Brisbane Heat Adelaide Strikers 2016

Highest successful BBL run chase at Adelaide Oval

Target Overs Team Opposition Year
186 20 Brisbane Heat Adelaide Strikers 2012
178 19.5 Melbourne Renegades Adelaide Strikers 2021
177 19.3 Adelaide Strikers Sydney Sixers 2015
177 18.4 Brisbane Heat Adelaide Strikers 2019
175 19.1 Melbourne Renegades Adelaide Strikers 2018

Although the 200-run mark has been touched on six occasions in BBL matches at this stadium, no team has ever scored in excess of 200 runs in a successful run-chase.

As far as Adelaide T20Is are concerned, teams batting first have won seven matches as compared to five wins by chasing teams. Hence, toss is unlikely to be a deciding factor with respect to this venue.

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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.