New Georgie Redmayne has been named captain of the Brisbane Heat as the club looks to bounce back from a difficult Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL) campaign.
The wicketkeeper-batter succeeds all-rounder Jess Jonassen, who led the Heat for the previous six WBBL seasons.
The appointment comes after a challenging 2025 season in which Brisbane finished at the bottom of the table without registering a victory. However, confidence within the squad has been boosted by success at state level, with the Queensland Fire winning the 2025-26 Women’s National Cricket League (WNCL) title under Redmayne’s leadership.
Redmayne played a key role in that triumph, scoring a century in the final and captaining a side featuring many of the same players who represent the Heat.
Despite last season’s struggles, she believes the team has the talent to return to winning ways in the shorter format.
“If we win one game we are on the up,” Redmayne said with a smile.
“To be more serious, pre-season has been really good and winning the WNCL was massive for us with a lot of the same core group, so we know we are still a winning team.”
She said the challenge would be adapting that success to Twenty20 cricket.
“We just have to tweak a few things to be successful in that T20 format.”
The Heat begin their campaign at home against the Sydney Sixers, in a fixture Redmayne described as one of the league’s traditional rivalries.
Reflecting on last season, she acknowledged the team’s struggles in critical moments.
“Last year we didn’t really turn up in the high-pressure moments … but hopefully we go back to the winning ways which we were known for in the past.”
Away from cricket, Redmayne has also returned to her medical career this year after several seasons focused entirely on professional sport.
The qualified doctor completed work placements at Greenslopes Private Hospital in Brisbane during April and again between August and September.
She said balancing medicine and cricket had provided valuable perspective.
“It helps provide a great bit of grounding for me, especially when you go away playing cricket.”
“You can think it is the be-all and end-all playing professional sport, but it is literally grounding seeing some real world problems.”
Redmayne has been one of the Heat’s most consistent performers over recent years and enjoyed a particularly successful period at the top of the order, finishing as the club’s leading run-scorer in three consecutive seasons between 2020 and 2022.
The Heat will now hope her leadership, experience, and recent success with Queensland Fire can help spark a revival as they aim to return to contention in the upcoming WBBL season.
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