2024 T20 Blast

# 2024 T20 Blast

## Abstract

The 2024 T20 Blast (also known as 2024 Vitality Blast for sponsorship reasons) was the 22nd edition of the T20 Blast (currently known as the Vitality Blast), a professional Twenty20 cricket league played in England and Wales. The tournament ran from 30 May to 14 September 2024. The domestic T20 competition was run by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and was branded as the Vitality Blast due to the tournament's sponsorship. Somerset were the defending champions, having won their second title during the previous season. On 23 November 2023, the ECB announced the fixtures for the tournament.

Somerset and Gloucestershire won their home quarter-finals, while Surrey and the Sussex Sharks also secured a place at Finals day with away wins against Durham and Lancashire Lightning respectively, thus producing an all South Group finals for only the second time; the last occurrence being in 2021. In the final, Gloucestershire beat Somerset by 8 wickets to win their first title after an 22-year wait.

## Format

The playing format is the same as the previous season, where groups remain the same with the familiar North and South split, while each county will play 14 group-stage matches, seven at home and seven away.

## Teams

The teams are divided into the following groups:

- North Group: Birmingham Bears, Derbyshire Falcons, Durham, Lancashire Lightning, Leicestershire Foxes, Northants Steelbacks, Notts Outlaws, Worcestershire Rapids, Yorkshire Vikings

- South Group: Essex Eagles, Glamorgan, Gloucestershire, Hampshire Hawks, Kent Spitfires, Middlesex, Somerset, Surrey, Sussex Sharks

## Standings

### North Group

### South Group

## North Group

- Lancashire Lightning won the toss and elected to field.

- Matthew Hurst and Tom Aspinwall (Lancashire Lightning) both made their T20 debut.

- Northants Steelbacks won the toss and elected to field.

- Raphael Weatherall (Northants Steelbacks) made his T20 debut.

- Worcestershire Rapids won the toss and elected to bat.

- Ethan Brookes (Worcestershire Rapids) made his T20 debut.

- Birmingham Bears won the toss and elected to field.

- Leicestershire Foxes won the toss elected to field.

- Northants Steelbacks won the toss and elected to field.

- Worcestershire Rapids won the toss and elected to field.

- Leicestershire Foxes won the toss and elected to bat.

- Mitch Wagstaff (Derbyshire) made his T20 debut.

- Birmingham Bears won the toss and elected to bat.

- Derbyshire Falcons won the toss and elected to field.

- Yorkshire Vikings won the toss and elected to bat.

- Worcestershire Rapids won the toss and elected to bat.

- Notts Outlaws won the toss and elected to field.

- James Hayes (Nottinghamshire) made his T20 debut.

- Birmingham Bears won the toss and elected to field.

- Durham won the toss and elected to field.

- Northants Steelbacks won the toss and elected to bat.

- Durham won the toss and elected to bat.

- Worcestershire Rapids won the toss and elected to field.

- Notts Outlaws won the toss and elected to bat.

- Jack Morley (Lancashire Lightning) and Liam Patterson-White (Notts Outlaws) both made their T20 debut.

- Yorkshire Vikings won the toss and elected to field.

- Ben Cliff (Yorkshire Vikings) made his T20 debut.

- Durham won the toss and elected to field.

- Birmingham Bears won the toss and elected to field.

- Derbyshire Falcons won the toss and elected to field.

- Rain prevented any further play.

- Derbyshire Falcons were 24 runs ahead of the DLS par score of 99 runs from 11 overs.

- Leicestershire Foxes won the toss and elected to field.

- George Balderson (Lancashire Lightning) made his T20 debut.

- Notts Outlaws won the toss and elected to field.

- Rain prevented any further play.

- Notts Outlaws were 1 run ahead of the DLS par score of 99 runs from 15 overs.

- Notts Outlaws won the toss and elected to field.

- The match was reduced to 17 overs per side due to rain.

- Rain prevented any further play.

- Benjamin Martindale (Notts Outlaws) made his T20 debut.

- Derbyshire Falcons won the toss and elected to bat.

- Durham won the toss and elected to bat.

- Northants Steelbacks won the toss and elected to bat.

- Leicestershire Foxes won the toss and elected to bat.

- Birmingham Bears won the toss and elected to bat.

- Yorkshire Vikings won the toss and elected to bat.

- Durham won the toss and elected to bat.

- Northants Steelbacks won the toss and elected to bat.

- Notts Outlaws won the toss and elected to bat.

- Birmingham Bears won the toss and elected to field.

- Durham won the toss and elected to bat.

- No toss.

- No play was possible due to rain.

- Leicestershire Foxes won the toss and elected to field.

- Rain prevented any further play.

- Sam Wood (Leicestershire Foxes) made his T20 debut.

- Birmingham Bears won the toss and elected to bat.

- Derbyshire Falcons won the toss and elected to field.

- Derbyshire Falcons won the toss and elected to field.

- Lancashire Lightning won the toss and elected to field.

- Harry Darley (Worcestershire Rapids) made his T20 debut.

- Northants Steelbacks won the toss and elected to field.

- Birmingham Bears won the toss and elected to field.

- No toss.

- No play was possible due to rain.

- Leicestershire Foxes won the toss and elected to field.

- Durham won the toss and elected to bat.

- Worcestershire Rapids won the toss and elected to bat.

- The match was reduced to 17 overs per side due to rain.

- Notts Outlaws won the toss and elected to field.

- No toss.

- No play was possible due to rain.

- Leicestershire Foxes won the toss and elected to field.

- Derbyshire Falcons won the toss and elected to field.

- Northants Steelbacks won the toss and elected to field.

- The match was reduced to 8 overs per side due to rain.

- Jack White (Northants Steelbacks) made his T20 debut.

- Notts Outlaws won the toss and elected to bat.

- Yorkshire Vikings won the toss and elected to field.

- Lancashire Lightning won the toss and elected to field.

- Birmingham Bears won the toss and elected to field.

- Derbyshire Falcons won the toss and elected to field.

- Henry Cullen and Jack Home (Worcestershire Rapids) both made their T20 debut.

- Birmingham Bears won the toss and elected to bat.

- Durham won the toss and elected to field.

- Northants Steelbacks won the toss and elected to field.

- Yorkshire Vikings won the toss and elected to field.

- Freddie McCann and Sam King (Notts Outlaws) both made their T20 debut.

## South Group

- Gloucestershire won the toss and elected to field.

- Luc Benkenstein (Essex Eagles) made his T20 debut.

- Surrey won the toss and elected to field.

- Glamorgan won the toss and elected to field.

- Middlesex won the toss and elected to field.

- Noah Cornwell (Middlesex) made his T20 debut.

- Somerset won the toss and elected to field.

- Sussex Sharks won the toss and elected to field.

- Jack Carson (Sussex Sharks) made his T20 debut.

- Essex Eagles won the toss and elected to field.

- Glamorgan won the toss and elected to bat.

- Kent Spitfires won the toss and elected to bat.

- Somerset won the toss and elected to field.

- Middlesex won the toss and elected to bat.

- Essex Eagles won the toss and elected to field.

- Hampshire Hawks won the toss and elected to field.

- Kent Spitfires won the toss and elected to field.

- Surrey won the toss and elected to field.

- Gloucestershire won the toss and elected to field.

- Middlesex won the toss and elected to field.

- Hampshire Hawks won the toss and elected to field.

- Somerset won the toss and elected to field.

- No toss.

- No play was possible due to rain.

- Middlesex won the toss and elected to field.

- Essex Eagles innings was reduced to 12.4 overs due to rain.

- Middlesex were set a revised target of 143 runs off 12 overs and later 80 runs off 6 overs due to rain.

- Sussex Sharks won the toss and elected to field.

- Hampshire Hawks won the toss and elected to field.

- The match was reduced to 18 overs per side due to rain.

- No further play was possible due to rain.

- Kent Spitfires won the toss and elected to field.

- The match was reduced to 5 overs per side due to rain.

- Somerset were set a revised target of 61 runs from 5 overs.

- Nathan Gilchrist and Charlie Stobo (Kent Spitfires) both made their T20 debut.

- Surrey won the toss and elected to field.

- Sussex Sharks won the toss and elected to field.

- Gloucestershire won the toss and elected to field.

- Glamorgan won the toss and elected to field.

- Essex Eagles won the toss and elected to field.

- Charlie Allison (Essex Eagles) and Fletcha Middleton (Hampshire Hawks) both made their T20 debut.

- Glamorgan won the toss and elected to bat.

- Middlesex won the toss and elected to field.

- Kent Spitfires won the toss and elected to field.

- Gloucestershire won the toss and elected to field.

- Hampshire Hawks won the toss and elected to field.

- Essex Eagles won the toss and elected to field.

- Glamorgan won the toss and elected to bat.

- Gloucestershire won the toss and elected to field.

- Rain prevented any further play.

- Gloucestershire were below the DLS par score of 37 in 5 overs.

- No toss.

- No play was possible due to rain.

- No toss.

- No play was possible due to rain.

- Sussex Sharks won the toss and elected to field.

- Sussex Sharks were set a revised target of 215 runs off 18 overs due to rain.

- No toss.

- No play was possible due to rain.

- Essex Eagles won the toss and elected to field.

- Gloucestershire won the toss and elected to field.

- Kent Spitfires won the toss and elected to field.

- The match was reduced to 10 overs per side due to rain.

- Kent Spitfires were set a revised target of 87 runs from 8 overs due to rain.

- Ollie Sykes (Surrey) made his T20 debut.

- Hampshire Hawks won the toss and elected to field.

- Kent Spitfires won the toss and elected to field.

- Gloucestershire won the toss and elected to field.

- Middlesex won the toss and elected to field.

- The match was reduced to 10 overs per side due to rain.

- Gloucestershire won the toss and elected to bat.

- Kent Spitfires won the toss and elected to field.

- Surrey won the toss and elected to bat.

- George Thomas (Somerset) made his T20 debut.

- Essex Eagles won the toss and elected to field.

- Essex Eagles won the toss and elected to field.

- Glamorgan won the toss and elected to field.

- Hampshire Hawks won the toss and elected to bat.

- Eddie Jack (Hampshire Hawks) made his T20 debut

- Kent Spitfires won the toss and elected to field.

- The match was reduced to 13 overs per side due to rain.

- Gloucestershire won the toss and elected to bat.

- Somerset won the toss and elected to field.

- Surrey won the toss and elected to field.

- Sam Curran (Surrey) scored his first century in T20s.

- Glamorgan won the toss and elected to bat.

- Essex Eagles won the toss and elected to field.

- Surrey won the toss and elected to field.

- Middlesex won the toss and elected to bat.

## Knock-out stage

### Quarter-finals

- Surrey won the toss and elected to field.

- Sussex Sharks won the toss and elected to field.

- Northants Steelbacks won the toss and elected to field.

- Birmingham Bears won the toss and elected to field.

## Finals Day

### Semi-finals

- Somerset won the toss and elected to field.

- Sussex Sharks won the toss and elected to bat.

### Final

- Gloucestershire won the toss and elected to field.

## Statistics

### Team records