caught behind for a three-ball duck.

The laidback Lynn looked noticeably annoyed as the umpire raised his finger, with television replays suggesting no contact was made with the ball by his bat, which scraped the ground.

Former Test opener Joe Burns (1) was undone by a searing Billy Stanlake short ball, miscuing a skied ball to Rashid, before man-of-the-match Neser skittled ex-Striker Alex Ross (1) with his first delivery of the night.

Brisbane held a glimmer of hope while McCullum was still in the middle but when the Kiwi talisman hoicked Neser down Jake Lehmann's throat at long-on for a relatively subdued 15, the Heat were 6-56 and it was game over.

Ben Laughlin (3-11) bulldozed Brisbane's lower order while Rashid (2-19) was outstanding again.

Earlier, Neser's aggressive batting steered the Strikers outThe lawyer for Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of having leaked a massive trove of US state secrets to WikiLeaks, has accused his military jailers at the marine base in Quantico, Virginia, of ritually humiliating his client by stripping him naked in his cell every night.

David Coombs, who is representing Manning in his court martial procedure, criticised the commanders of the Quantico brig for punishing the prisoner for a sarcastic comment he made in protest at his treatment. Coombs said Manning quipped that if he wanted to harm himself he could do so with the elastic waistband in his underpants or with his flip-flops.

Though the comment was sarcastic, Coombs claims it was used by the military guards to tighten Manning's already harsh treatment under a prevention of injury