Adelaide has made a record-breaking start to its WBBL title defence — and it came thanks to an embarrassingly bad performance from the Stars. 

Put in to bat, the Strikers smashed their way to 3-177, with openers Katie Mack (86 off 50 balls) and Laura Woolvardt (47 off 36) blasting 135 off 14.1 overs.

Melbourne, who won its opening game on Thursday, was then dismissed in just 9.3 overs for 29, 37 runs short of the tournament's previous lowest total.

No Star made double figures with Sophia Dunkley top-scoring with nine, with nine other batters dismissed for three or less.

Megan Schutt (3-3 off three overs), Amanda-Jade Wellington (3-4 off two) and Zimbabwean legspinner Anesu Mushangwe (2-12 off two) ripped through the batting line-up to leave the visitors reeling at 8-18 in the seventh over.

Captain Tahlia McGrath (2-2 off 1.3) picked up the last two wickets to complete the embarrassingly one-sided game.

The 148-run defeat was another unenviable record, with the previous biggest winning margin a Sydney Sixers 103-run win over the Hobart Hurricanes. 

"We started unreal with the bat with Katie and Laura and then with the ball as well with Mushy (Mushangwe) and Shooter (Schutt), so very happy," McGrath said.

"A perfect start but it's a long tournament, it's a really tough tournament, so we're going to have to be at our best for the next six weeks."

The Strikers openers feasted on some poor bowling, notching at least one boundary in each of the first nine overs.

Mack took 11 off the first Kim Garth over, slashing a couple of boundaries backward of point, and scored 49 of her team's first 55 runs.