{"id":380496,"date":"2025-12-30T13:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T13:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/380496\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T13:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T13:31:09","slug":"brisbane-heat-vs-adelaide-strikers-new-years-eve-shaheen-shah-afridi-flies-home-knee-injury-start-time-live-blog-t20-world-cup-spencer-johnson-nathan-mcsweeney-tom-alsop-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/380496\/","title":{"rendered":"Brisbane Heat vs Adelaide Strikers, New Year\u2019s Eve, Shaheen Shah Afridi flies home, knee injury, start time, live blog, T20 World Cup, Spencer Johnson, Nathan McSweeney, Tom Alsop injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Star import Shaheen Shah Afridi has played his last BBL game this summer in a big blow to the Brisbane Heat\u2019s title chances.<\/p>\n

Afridi pulled up lame while fielding<\/a> in the win over the Adelaide Strikers on Saturday night and failed to return at the Gabba.<\/p>\n

Subsequent scans have confirmed Afridi suffered a knee cartilage injury.<\/p>\n

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After consultation with the Pakistan Cricket Board\u2019s medical staff, the decision has been made for Afridi to return home to recover ahead of the T20 World Cup campaign starting in early February.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have enjoyed myself a lot playing for Brisbane and I am sad that I will not be able to finish the season with the team,\u201d Afridi said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am massively thankful to the Heat fans for showering me with immense love and support. I am also grateful for the support of the team and their amazing hospitality.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe BBL was everything I had heard it would be \u2013 lots of good, skilful cricket. I have enjoyed the challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shaheen Shah Afridi endured a tough BBL stint.Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n

The injury is just another blow to a Brisbane outfit already missing Aussie star Spencer Johnson, who was ruled out of the summer with a back issue.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve been without skipper Nathan McSweeney for consecutive matches after he sustained an ankle injury in the record-breaking win<\/a> over the Perth Scorchers earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Tom Alsop (knee) is also sidelined as the Heat head into their rematch with the Adelaide Strikers on New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/p>\n

Just four days after the two sides\u2019 met, and the Heat got home by seven runs<\/a>, the two teams will clash once more.<\/p>\n

All-rounder Jack Wood has been granted BBL Technical Committee approval to join the Heat as a local replacement for the NYE blockbuster.<\/p>\n

Heat vs Strikers BBL full highlights | 14:46<\/p>\n

Wednesday night\u2019s New Year\u2019s Eve clash begins at 7.15pm AEDT at Adelaide Oval.<\/p>\n

If you can\u2019t see this blog, click here<\/a><\/p>\n

SQUADS<\/p>\n

Adelaide: Matt Short (c), Hassan Ali, Mackenzie Harvey, Chris Lynn, Harry Manenti, Harry Nielsen, Jamie Overton, Lloyd Pope, Alex Ross, Jason Sangha, Liam Scott, Henry Thornton, Jerrssis Wadia, Luke Wood<\/p>\n

Brisbane: Tom Balkin, Xavier Bartlett (c), Max Bryant, Liam Haskett, Lachlan Hearne, Matthew Kuhnemann, Colin Munro, Oli Patterson, Jimmy Peirson, Matthew Renshaw, Hugh Weibgen, Jack Wildermuth, Jack Wood<\/p>\n

In: Jack Wood Out: Shaheen Shah Afridi (knee), Tom Alsop (knee)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Star import Shaheen Shah Afridi has played his last BBL game this summer in a big blow to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[106495,189844,1813,64,63,689,7292,204837,57608,204835,2667,9203,106496,79033,740,204832,2105,89808,189792,204838,33832,189835,189806,204833,71556,89810,60457,130021,189803,18779,3548,677,189811,43586,60180,60174,85,204834,109024,5338,204836,26124,189826,195835,21418,26797],"class_list":["post-380496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-adelaide-strikers","tag-alex-ross","tag-ankle-injury","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-capital-territory","tag-bbl-technical-committee","tag-brisbane-heat","tag-campaign-starting","tag-canberra","tag-catherine-healey","tag-chris-lynn","tag-colin-munro","tag-cricket","tag-flies-home","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-henry-thornton","tag-jack-wildermuth","tag-jack-wood","tag-jamie-overton","tag-jason-sangha","tag-jimmy-peirson","tag-knee-cartilage-injury","tag-luke-wood","tag-mackenzie-harvey","tag-mark-metcalfe","tag-matthew-renshaw","tag-max-bryant","tag-nathan-mcsweeney","tag-nielsen","tag-oceania","tag-oli-patterson","tag-pakistan-cricket-board","tag-perth-scorchers","tag-r-johnson","tag-sports","tag-star-import","tag-sydney-thunder","tag-the-gabba","tag-thomas-balkin","tag-title-chances","tag-tom-alsop","tag-tom-balkin","tag-world-cup","tag-xavier-bartlett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}