Strikers condemn winless Heat to sixth defeat

Adelaide Strikers snatched a six-wicket win off the final ball of the innings to condemn winless Brisbane Heat to a sixth consecutive defeat in the WBBL.

With 22 runs needed off the final 12 balls, Bridget Patterson and Ellie Johnston shared three boundaries in a 15-run penultimate over.

Despite the best efforts of Nadine de Klerk, who only conceded two singles off the first half of the 20th, eighth-placed Heat couldn't cling on for the win.

England batter Tammy Beaumont had earlier scored a half-century (51 off 33) as part of a 92-run opening stand with Laura Wolvaardt (51 off 33) to break the back of the Strikers' chase of 170.

In the first innings, de Klerk smacked 25 runs off just nine deliveries at the death to power Heat to 169-5 - their highest total of the season.

She put on 36 (15) for the fifth wicket with Georgia Redmayne, including four fours and one six, after former England international Lauren Winfield-Hill had led the way with 47 (36) at the top of the order.

Heat are now four points adrift at the bottom of the table while the Strikers' second win sees them leapfrog Sydney Thunder into sixth place. They are now just three points behind second-placed Melbourne Renegades.