By Karthik Iyengar
Reviewed by Anjali DeshmukhMelbourne Stars appear in 7 of our Big Bash League tables, from 2016/17 to 2025/26, with 37 wins and 46 defeats from 84 league matches. Their best finish in this set is 1, in 2019/20; their lowest is 8, in 2017/18, 2022/23.
Across those 84 matches they scored 12468 runs and conceded 12700. By net run rate their strongest season here was 2025/26 at +0.759, the weakest 2017/18 at -0.926 — a measure that ignores how close the finishes were. They did not take the title in any of the seasons we hold complete.
Season by season
League-stage record by season
Season | Pos | P | W | L | NRR | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
4 / 8 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 0.759 | 12 | |
8 / 8 | 14 | 3 | 11 | -0.287 | 6 | |
7 / 8 | 14 | 5 | 8 | 0.125 | 11 | |
1 / 8 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 0.568 | 20 | |
4 / 8 | 14 | 7 | 7 | -0.062 | 14 | |
8 / 8 | 10 | 2 | 8 | -0.926 | 4 | |
4 / 8 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0.417 | 8 |
All Big Bash League points tables
Who played in 2025/26
These are the 14 players who actually took the field for Melbourne Stars in the 2025/26 season, read from the ball-by-ball archive rather than from a squad announcement. Names appear in scorecard form, as the match records write them.
BD Macdonald
C Kellaway
GJ Maxwell
HWR Cartwright
Haris Rauf
J Merlo
JM Clarke
LC Hatcher
MJ Swepson
MP Stoinis
PM Siddle
SB Harper
TF Rogers
TK Curran