Chris Lynn to leave Brisbane Heat after 11 seasons

Lynn scored 3,005 Big Bash runs for Heat during his long association with the side and is the club's record run-scorer in the competition

Brisbane Heat have parted company with Chris Lynn after 11 seasons.

The club confirmed on Wednesday that they would not be offering a new deal to the 32-year-old ahead of the 2022/23 Big Bash campaign.

Lynn scored 3,005 Big Bash runs for Heat during his long association with the side and is the club's record run-scorer in the competition. No one is close to his 180 sixes in the Big Bash across his career.

However, he endured a mediocre BBL11, averaging less than 18, and the Brisbane recruitment and retention committee have sought to move on for the new term.

^{Chris Lynn will not get a new Brisbane Heat contract [Bradley Kanaris/Getty Images]}

Heat chief executive Terry Svenson said: "It's not a decision that has come easily to the Heat by any means.

"Chris Lynn and his feats have made an indelible impression on the club, and his efforts over more than a decade can rightly be said to have had an enormously positive effect on cricket.

CHRIS LYNN: BIG BASH STATS

Matches: 102

Innings: 100

Runs: 3,005

Average: 34.54

Strike rate: 148.83

50s: 24

100s: 1

6s: 180

"We should gratefully acknowledge the influence he has had on a generation of kids who have grown up thrilled by his batting exploits.

"His appearance in a teal jumper each year would no doubt be linked by many households to the onset of their holidays, with the BBL being such an integral part of summer holidays.

"The Heat wish him nothing but the best for the future as he transitions into another phase of his career and thank him wholeheartedly for his commitment to the game in Queensland."

Lynn may well be picked up by one of the other seven Big Bash clubs in time for BBL12. 

The Big Bash teams are unable to formally sign players at present, but non-binding conversations are allowed to take place with players.