Countries | England & Wales |
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Administrator | England and Wales Cricket Board |
Format | Twenty20 |
First edition | 2003 |
Latest edition | 2024 |
Next edition | 2025 |
Tournament format | Group stage and knockout |
Number of teams | 18 |
Current champion | Gloucestershire (1st title) |
Most successful | Leicestershire Foxes (3 titles) Hampshire Hawks (3 titles) |
TV | Sky Sports Fox Cricket (Australia) BeIN Sports 3 EN (MENA). - Sony Sports Network (India) |
Website | ECB Vitality Blast |
Season | |
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2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007 • 2008 • 2009 • 2010 • 2011 • 2012 • 2013 • 2014 • 2015 • 2016 • 2017 • 2018 • 2019 • 2020 • 2021 • 2022 • 2023 • 2024 |
The T20 Blast, officially known as the Vitality Blast for sponsorship reasons, is a professional Twenty20 cricket league in England and Wales. The competition was established by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003. T20 Blast is the oldest domestic T20 league in the world. It is one of the top-level Twenty20 league in the world. Vitality Blast comprises 18 teams, with 17 in the England and 1 in Wales. The competition has been known by a variety of names due to commercial sponsorship. It was known as the Twenty20 Cup from 2003 to 2009, the Friends Provident t20 and Friends Life t20 from 2010 to 2013, and the Natwest t20 Blast from 2014 to 2017. The competition has been sponsored by insurance company Vitality since 2018 and is known as the Vitality Blast.[1][2][3]