If it was a 109-stand between Alex Carey and Jake Weatherald that secured an easy five-wicket Adelaide Strikers win, it was a devastating Peter Siddle five-for that set it up.

A Tigers teammate to several Hurricanes players, the 36-year-old collected D'Arcy Short, Tim David and James Faulkner en route to 5-16 off 3.3 overs, the best figures of this year's competition to date.

"It sort of just came up on me - I don't think I was really thinking about the five," Siddle said.

"At the back end I was just trying to execute the balls and not go for any runs - it was just a nice result that turned it around from the other night."

The result saw Siddle win back some bragging rights after Sunday's plucky 11-run loss to the Hurricanes in Hobart.

"I'm really close to a lot of the boys now - I've enjoyed my time down here so far and even talking to them off the park I'm still trying to help them and giving them advice," he said.

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"Some of them are my very close mates now so it was a bit of fun out there - I still like seeing them do well, but it's nice to come out of it one win apiece."

Wickets came early, and again late, but the middle overs belonged to Adelaide as the Hurricanes' perfect start to BBL10 came to a halt.

After two first-over wickets from James Faulkner sparked hope that the hosts could defend 146, Carey and Weatherald's partnership extinguished it as the latter carried his bat for 68 not out.

It was only a tight spell from Scott Boland (0-15 off four) that kept the Hurricanes in the game until the 19th over, when Ryan Gibson calmly ended the chase.

Earlier, the Strikers' quicks had made a mess of the Hurricanes top order.

A flying catch at point from Weatherald sentenced English opener Will Jacks to his second second-ball duck in three games and D'Arcy Short followed next over.

Short nicked off down the leg side to become Peter Siddle's first victim and when Peter Handscomb nicked off down the other the Hurricanes were 3-20.

After much more playing and missing Ben McDermott finally began the fireworks - both literal and figurative - by hoisting Matt Renshaw into UTAS' architecture and design building.

The right-hander and ex-Striker Colin Ingram then embarked on a construction project of their own, converting the shakiest of foundations into a competitive total.

A fruitful over from Danny Briggs (0-15 off 1) brought up the 50 partnership, 19 more off Matt Renshaw followed and just as a total of 170-plus looked back on the cards, Rashid Khan struck.

Perhaps the only spinner to look dangerous on the UTAS deck, the energetic Afghan drew a leading edge to dismiss McDermott for 46 and the Hurricanes never really got going again.

Ingram departed four overs later - again to a first-class catch from Weatherald - and it was only Tim David who looked a threat of setting off more fireworks.

A rare Khan half-tracker was dispatched out of the ground as the Singaporean big hitter compiled a quickfire 24 before Siddle cleaned up the tail.

More than 10 years to the day he took a hat-trick on his birthday, the 36-year-old removed David and Riley Meredith in consecutive balls in his last over to claim the astounding figures of 5-16.

Hurricanes 146

Strikers 5-147