Schedule: The 2025 Vitality T20 Blast runs from 29 May to 13 September. The group-stage schedule (as announced by the ECB) is listed below by date. The tournament comprises group matches in two regional pools (North and South), followed by quarter-finals (3, 5–6 September) and Finals Day (13 September at Edgbaston).
Venue key: Emirates Old Trafford (Manchester), Headingley (Leeds), Old Trafford (Manchester), etc., as shown. (Double-headers with the women’s competition are marked with “” in the official schedule.)
Tournament Overview
- Name: Vitality T20 Blast 2025
- Dates: May 29, 2025 – September 13, 2025
- Teams: 18 county teams from England and Wales
- Total Matches: 133
- Venues: 23 stadiums across England and Wales
- Format: Two groups (North & South), 14 group matches per team, followed by quarter-finals and Finals Day at Edgbaston
- Defending Champions: Gloucestershire
- Broadcast: Star Sports
Match Schedule Highlights
| Date | Fixture (Venue) |
|---|---|
| Thu 29 May | Lancashire Lightning v Worcestershire Rapids (Emirates Old Trafford) |
| Thu 29 May | Middlesex v Sussex Sharks (Lord’s) |
| Fri 30 May | Gloucestershire v Kent Spitfires (Bristol) |
| Fri 30 May | Hampshire Hawks v Essex Eagles (Southampton) |
| Fri 30 May | Leicestershire Foxes v Derbyshire Falcons (Leicester) |
| Sat 31 May | Birmingham Bears v Worcestershire Rapids (Edgbaston) |
| Sat 31 May | Gloucestershire v Kent Spitfires (Bristol)* |
| Sat 31 May | Somerset v Essex Eagles (Taunton)* |
| Sat 31 May | Sussex Sharks v Surrey (Brighton) |
| Sun 1 Jun | Middlesex v Somerset (Lord’s)* |
| Sun 1 Jun | Hampshire Hawks v Sussex Sharks (Southampton) |
| Sun 1 Jun | Yorkshire Vikings v Gloucestershire (Leeds) |
| Sun 1 Jun | Glamorgan v Warwickshire (Cardiff) |
| Date | Fixture (Venue) |
|---|---|
| Tue 3 Jun | Sussex Sharks v Northamptonshire Steelbacks (Brighton) |
| Wed 4 Jun | Durham v Lancashire Lightning (Durham) |
| Thu 5 Jun | Kent Spitfires v Essex Eagles (Tonbridge) |
| Thu 5 Jun | Middlesex v Hampshire Hawks (Lord’s) |
| Fri 6 Jun | Derbyshire Falcons v Nottinghamshire Outlaws (Derby) |
| Fri 6 Jun | Leicestershire Foxes v Lancashire Lightning (Leicester) |
| Sat 7 Jun | Surrey v Sussex Sharks (The Oval) |
| Sat 7 Jun | Birmingham Bears v Worcestershire Rapids (Edgbaston) |
| Sat 7 Jun | Surrey v Middlesex (The Oval)* |
| Sat 8 Jun | Gloucestershire v Durham (Bristol) |
| Sat 8 Jun | Kent Spitfires v Essex Eagles (Tonbridge) |
| Sat 8 Jun | Hampshire Hawks v Somerset (Southampton) |
| Sat 8 Jun | Sussex Sharks v Nottinghamshire Outlaws (Brighton) |
| Sun 9 Jun | Birmingham Bears v Yorkshire Vikings (Edgbaston) |
| Sun 9 Jun | Lancashire Lightning v Durham (Manchester) |
| Sun 9 Jun | Somerset v Glamorgan (Taunton) |
| Sun 9 Jun | Worcestershire Rapids v Derbyshire Falcons (Worcester) |
| Tue 11 Jun | Essex Eagles v Surrey (Chelmsford) |
| Wed 12 Jun | Kent Spitfires v Middlesex (Canterbury) |
| Wed 12 Jun | Leicestershire Foxes v Nottinghamshire Outlaws (Leicester) |
| Thu 13 Jun | Sussex Sharks v Glamorgan (Brighton) |
| Thu 13 Jun | Warwickshire Bears v Somerset (Birmingham) |
| Fri 14 Jun | Birmingham Bears v Worcestershire Rapids (Edgbaston)* |
| Fri 14 Jun | Derbyshire Falcons v Yorkshire Vikings (Derby)* |
| Fri 14 Jun | Surrey v Kent Spitfires (The Oval) |
| Fri 14 Jun | Northamptonshire Steelbacks v Lancashire Lightning (Northampton) |
| Sat 15 Jun | Derbyshire Falcons v Sussex Sharks (Derby) |
| Sat 15 Jun | Gloucestershire v Somerset (Bristol)* |
| Sat 15 Jun | Kent Spitfires v Hampshire Hawks (Canterbury) |
| Sat 15 Jun | Lancashire Lightning v Worcestershire Rapids (Manchester) |
| Sun 16 Jun | Sussex Sharks v Leicestershire Foxes (Brighton) |
| Sun 16 Jun | Surrey v Middlesex (The Oval) |
| Sun 16 Jun | Worcestershire Rapids v Warwickshire Bears (Worcester) |
| Mon 17 Jun | Essex Eagles v Nottinghamshire Outlaws (Chelmsford) |
| Tue 18 Jun | Surrey v Sussex Sharks (The Oval) |
| Wed 19 Jun | Kent Spitfires v Glamorgan (Canterbury) |
| Wed 19 Jun | Leicestershire Foxes v Hampshire Hawks (Leicester) |
| Thu 20 Jun | Gloucestershire v Derbyshire Falcons (Bristol) |
| Thu 20 Jun | Northamptonshire Steelbacks v Lancashire Lightning (Northampton) |
| Fri 21 Jun | Essex Eagles v Middlesex (Chelmsford) |
| Fri 21 Jun | Nottinghamshire Outlaws v Worcestershire Rapids (Nottingham) |
| Sat 22 Jun | Essex Eagles v Birmingham Bears (Chelmsford)* |
| Sat 22 Jun | Kent Spitfires v Surrey (Canterbury)* |
| Sat 22 Jun | Somerset v Lancashire Lightning (Taunton)* |
| Sat 22 Jun | Sussex Sharks v Nottinghamshire Outlaws (Brighton) |
| Sun 23 Jun | Durham v Yorkshire Vikings (Durham) |
| Sun 23 Jun | Hampshire Hawks v Leicestershire Foxes (Southampton) |
| Sun 23 Jun | Middlesex v Essex Eagles (Lord’s) |
| Sun 23 Jun | Warwickshire Bears v Nottinghamshire Outlaws (Birmingham) |
| Tue 25 Jun | Durham v Warwickshire Bears (Durham) |
| Tue 25 Jun | Lancashire Lightning v Sussex Sharks (Manchester) |
| Wed 26 Jun | Derbyshire Falcons v Northamptonshire Steelbacks (Derby) |
| Wed 26 Jun | Surrey v Glamorgan (The Oval) |
| Thu 27 Jun | Glamorgan v Middlesex (Cardiff) |
| Thu 27 Jun | Kent Spitfires v Essex Eagles (Canterbury) |
| Fri 28 Jun | Gloucestershire v Yorkshire Vikings (Bristol) |
| Fri 28 Jun | Northamptonshire Steelbacks v Worcestershire Rapids (Northampton) |
| Sat 29 Jun | Durham v Hampshire Hawks (Durham) |
| Sat 29 Jun | Kent Spitfires v Surrey (Canterbury) |
| Sat 29 Jun | Middlesex v Sussex Sharks (Lord’s)* |
| Sat 29 Jun | Nottinghamshire Outlaws v Lancashire Lightning (Nottingham) |
| Sun 30 Jun | Essex Eagles v Kent Spitfires (Chelmsford) |
| Sun 30 Jun | Hampshire Hawks v Leicestershire Foxes (Southampton) |
| Sun 30 Jun | Nottinghamshire Outlaws v Surrey (Nottingham) |
| Sun 30 Jun | Somerset v Worcestershire Rapids (Taunton) |
| Date | Fixture (Venue) |
|---|---|
| Tue 2 Jul | Derbyshire Falcons v Lancashire Lightning (Derby) |
| Wed 3 Jul | Essex Eagles v Somerset (Chelmsford)* |
| Thu 4 Jul | Gloucestershire v Northamptonshire Steelbacks (Bristol) |
| Thu 4 Jul | Northamptonshire Steelbacks v Derbyshire Falcons (Northampton) |
| Fri 5 Jul | Yorkshire Vikings v Middlesex (Leeds) |
| Fri 5 Jul | Sussex Sharks v Essex Eagles (Brighton) |
| Sat 6 Jul | Kent Spitfires v Sussex Sharks (Canterbury) |
| Sat 6 Jul | Northamptonshire Steelbacks v Somerset (Northampton) |
| Sat 6 Jul | Nottinghamshire Outlaws v Hampshire Hawks (Nottingham) |
| Sun 7 Jul | Essex Eagles v Surrey (Chelmsford) |
| Sun 7 Jul | Glamorgan v Lancashire Lightning (Cardiff) |
| Sun 7 Jul | Worcestershire Rapids v Leicestershire Foxes (Worcester) |
| Mon 8 Jul | Kent Spitfires v Middlesex (Canterbury) |
| Mon 8 Jul | Lancashire Lightning v Yorkshire Vikings (Manchester) |
| Wed 10 Jul | Durham v Nottinghamshire Outlaws (Durham) |
| Thu 11 Jul | Worcestershire Rapids v Surrey (Worcester) |
| Thu 11 Jul | Warwickshire Bears v Somerset (Birmingham) |
| Fri 12 Jul | Birmingham Bears v Nottinghamshire Outlaws (Edgbaston) |
| Fri 12 Jul | Derbyshire Falcons v Durham (Derby) |
| Fri 12 Jul | Northamptonshire Steelbacks v Glamorgan (Northampton) |
| Sat 13 Jul | Gloucestershire v Yorkshire Vikings (Bristol) |
| Sat 13 Jul | Kent Spitfires v Warwickshire Bears (Canterbury) |
| Sat 13 Jul | Sussex Sharks v Nottinghamshire Outlaws (Brighton) |
| Sat 13 Jul | Worcestershire Rapids v Derbyshire Falcons (Worcester) |
| Sun 14 Jul | Somerset v Hampshire Hawks (Taunton) |
| Sun 14 Jul | Surrey v Sussex Sharks (The Oval) |
| Sun 14 Jul | Warwickshire Bears v Nottinghamshire Outlaws (Edgbaston) |
| Mon 15 Jul | Durham v Leicestershire Foxes (Durham) |
| Tue 16 Jul | Derbyshire Falcons v Yorkshire Vikings (Derby) |
| Tue 16 Jul | Durham v Surrey (Durham) |
| Wed 17 Jul | Lancashire Lightning v Northamptonshire Steelbacks (Manchester) |
| Wed 17 Jul | Sussex Sharks v Yorkshire Vikings (Brighton) |
| Thu 18 Jul | Glamorgan v Somerset (Cardiff) |
| Thu 18 Jul | Leicestershire Foxes v Surrey (Leicester) |
| Fri 19 Jul | Birmingham Bears v Nottinghamshire Outlaws (Edgbaston) |
| Fri 19 Jul | Derbyshire Falcons v Essex Eagles (Derby) |
| Fri 19 Jul | Leicestershire Foxes v Glamorgan (Leicester) |
| Sat 20 Jul | Gloucestershire v Somerset (Bristol) |
| Sat 20 Jul | Hampshire Hawks v Surrey (Southampton) |
| Sat 20 Jul | Nottinghamshire Outlaws v Essex Eagles (Nottingham) |
| Sun 21 Jul | Lancashire Lightning v Kent Spitfires (Manchester) |
| Sun 21 Jul | Yorkshire Vikings v Gloucestershire (Leeds) |
| Mon 22 Jul | Northamptonshire Steelbacks v Somerset (Northampton) |
| Tue 23 Jul | Yorkshire Vikings v Middlesex (Leeds) |
| Tue 23 Jul | Worcestershire Rapids v Kent Spitfires (Worcester) |
| Thu 25 Jul | Essex Eagles v Leicestershire Foxes (Chelmsford) |
| Fri 26 Jul | Essex Eagles v Northamptonshire Steelbacks (Chelmsford) |
| Fri 26 Jul | Sussex Sharks v Surrey (Brighton) |
| Sat 27 Jul | Kent Spitfires v Hampshire Hawks (Canterbury) |
| Sat 27 Jul | Nottinghamshire Outlaws v Worcestershire Rapids (Nottingham) |
| Sun 28 Jul | Somerset v Sussex Sharks (Taunton) |
| Sun 28 Jul | Warwickshire Bears v Middlesex (Birmingham) |
| Mon 29 Jul | Yorkshire Vikings v Nottinghamshire Outlaws (Leeds) |
| Tue 30 Jul | Somerset v Northamptonshire Steelbacks (Taunton) |
| Wed 31 Jul | Hampshire Hawks v Somerset (Southampton) |
| Thu 1 Aug | Durham v Sussex Sharks (Durham) |
(Note: Fixtures above are as announced by the ECB and county clubs. Quarter-finals (3 Sept vs 6 Sept) and Finals Day (13 Sept, Edgbaston) follow the group stage.)
Team Squads (2025)
Each of the 18 first-class counties has announced its T20 squad for 2025. For example, Derbyshire’s official site lists its first XI squad (e.g. Harry Came, Caleb Jewell, Wayne Madsen, Samit Patel, Pat Brown, etc.), and Durham’s site lists players like Ben Raine, Alex Lees, Graham Clark, Ben Stokes, Scott Borthwick, etc.. Below are the full squads (playing rosters) by team and regional group:
- North Group – Birmingham Bears (Warwickshire CCC): Zen Malik; Ethan Bamber; Rob Yates; Dan Mousley; Kai Smith; Jacob Bethell; Michael Booth; Che Simmons; Hamza Shaikh; Theo Wylie; Tazeem Ali; Moeen Ali; Chris Woakes; Olly Hannon-Dalby; Danny Briggs; Chris Rushworth; Craig Miles; Alex Davies; Tom Latham; Vishwa Fernando; Sam Hain; Ed Barnard; Beau Webster; George Garton; Jake Lintott; Richard Gleeson; Hasan Ali.
- Derbyshire Falcons: Harry Came; Mitch Wagstaff; Caleb Jewell; Yousaf Bin Naeem; Wayne Madsen; David Lloyd; Martin Andersson; Luis Reece; Alex Thomson; Samit Patel; Zak Chappell; Ross Whiteley; Anuj Dal; Blair Tickner; Ben Aitchison; Harry Moore; Jack Morley; Nick Potts; Pat Brown; Aneurin Donald; Brooke Guest.
- Durham: Ben Raine; Sam Conners; Will Rhodes; Emilio Gay; Colin Ackermann; Callum Parkinson; Ollie Robinson; Daniel Hogg; George Drissell; Ben McKinney; Bas de Leede; Alex Lees; Nathan Sowter; Graham Clark; Paul Coughlin; Mark Wood; Matthew Potts; Ben Stokes; Scott Borthwick; David Bedingham; Brydon Carse.
- Lancashire Lightning: Jack Blatherwick; Josh Bohannon; Michael Jones; George Balderson; Tom Hartley; Mitchell Stanley; Tom Aspinwall; George Bell; Josh Boyden; Matty Hurst; Harry Singh; Charlie Barnard; Harry Birkman; Kesh Fonseka; Rocky Flintoff; Ollie Sutton; James Anderson; Jos Buttler; Luke Wells; Ashton Turner; Keaton Jennings; Luke Wood; Tom Bailey; Liam Livingstone; Marcus Harris; Saqib Mahmood; Chris Green; Will Williams; Phil Salt; Anderson Phillip.
- Leicestershire Foxes: [Squad not fully available] – (As of May 2025, key players include Paul Horton (captain), Adil Rashid, etc., with the full roster announced by the club in late spring 2025.)
- Northamptonshire Steelbacks: George Scrimshaw; Matthew Breetzke; Ricardo Vasconcelos; Dominic Leech; Calvin Harrison; Freddie Heldreich; James Sales; Gus Miller; Justin Broad; Arush Buchake; Aadi Sharma; Raphy Weatherall; Krish Patel; Tiaan Louw; Ravi Bopara; Ben Sanderson; David Willey; Luke Procter; Rob Keogh; Yuzvendra Chahal; Ashton Agar; Harry Conway; Lewis McManus; Saif Zaib; Liam Guthrie; George Bartlett.
- Nottinghamshire Outlaws: Liam Patterson-White; Dillon Pennington; Lyndon James; Jack Haynes; Dane Schadendorf; Matthew Montgomery; Sam King; James Hayes; Fergus O’Neill; Ben Martindale; Farhan Ahmed; Thomas Giles; Travis Holland; Freddie McCann; Rob Lord; Sam Seecharan; Moises Henriques; Ben Slater; Brett Hutton; Olly Stone; Ben Duckett; Haseeb Hameed; Joe Clarke; Tom Moores; Daniel Sams; Conor McKerr; Kyle Verreynne; Mohammad Abbas; Josh Tongue.
- Yorkshire Vikings: Will Sutherland; George Hill; Finlay Bean; Matthew Revis; Jack White; Daniel Moriarty; Harry Duke; Will O’Rourke; James Wharton; Will Luxton; Ben Cliff; Jordan Buckingham; Jafer Chohan; Yash Vagadia; Noah Kelly; Alex Wade; Jawad Akhtar; Adil Rashid; Adam Lyth; Dawid Malan; Jonny Bairstow; Joe Root; Jonathan Tattersall; Ben Coad; Matt Milnes; Ben Sears; Jordan Thompson; Harry Brook; Dom Bess.
- South Group – Essex Eagles: Charlie Allison; Sam Cook; Matt Critchley; Dean Elgar; Henry Fletcher; Dan Lawrence; Feroze Khushi; Brett Hutton; Stephen Eskinazi; Gavin Griffiths; Tom Helm; Ben Foakes; Max Holden; James Fuller; Jamie Porter; Matthew Woods; Tom Westley; Dan Lawrence; Dan Evans; Teddy Bishop; Rishi Patel; Ben Duckett (as listed by the club announcements for 2025).
- Glamorgan: Mason Crane; Kiran Carlson; Henry Hurle; Billy Root; Ben Kellaway; James Harris; Andy Gorvin; Tom Bevan; Sam Northeast; Ben Morris; Zain Ul-Hassan; Will Smale; Marnus Labuschagne; Jamie McIlroy; Alex Horton; Colin Ingram; Chris Cooke; Asa Tribe; Timm van der Gugten; Dan Douthwaite; Ned Leonard; Eddie Byrom; Asitha Fernando; Callum Nicholls.
- Gloucestershire: Cameron Green; Zaman Akhter; Ben Charlesworth; Tom Price; Ollie Price; Dominic Goodman; Ed Middleton; Luke Charlesworth; Joe Phillips; Tommy Boorman; Ahmed Syed; Zaman Shafi; Archie Bailey; Tom Smith; David Payne; Chris Dent; Jack Taylor; Matt Taylor; Marchant de Lange; Cameron Bancroft; Miles Hammond; Josh Shaw; Graeme van Buuren; Ajeet Singh Dale; James Bracey.
- Hampshire Hawks: Felix Organ; Scott Currie; Fletcha Middleton; Ali Orr; Sonny Baker; Dewald Brevis; Tom Prest; Toby Albert; John Turner; Dominic Kelly; Joseph Eckland; Eddie Jack; Lhuan-dre Pretorius; Ethan Martin; Mark Stoneman; Liam Dawson; Ben Brown; Benny Howell; James Vince; Keith Barker; Chris Wood; James Fuller; Kyle Abbott; Nick Gubbins; Brett Hampton; Joe Weatherley; Brad Wheal.
- Kent Spitfires: Zak Crawley; Grant Stewart; Joey Evison; Chris Benjamin; Nathan Gilchrist; Marcus O’Riordan; George Garrett; Ben Compton; Michael Cohen; Tawanda Muyeye; Jas Singh; Jaydn Denly; Ekansh Singh; Ben Dawkins; Kashif Ali; Corey Flintoff; Joe Denly; Sam Billings; Daniel Bell-Drummond; Jack Leaning; Matt Quinn; Harry Finch; Keith Dudgeon; Matt Parkinson; Fred Klaassen; Wes Agar; Tom Rogers.
- Middlesex: Leus du Plooy; Henry Brookes; Jack Davies; Luke Hollman; Blake Cullen; Josh de Caires; Joe Cracknell; Ben Geddes; Ishaan Kaushal; Nathan Fernandes; Sebastian Morgan; Noah Cornwell; Naavya Sharma; Aaryan Sawant; Sam Robson; Kane Williamson; Toby Roland-Jones; Tom Helm; Zafar Gohar; Ryan Higgins; Dane Paterson; Stevie Eskinazi; Max Holden; Josh Little.
- Somerset: Tom Banton; Tom Lammonby; Migael Pretorius; Lewis Goldsworthy; Kasey Aldridge; Will Smeed; James Rew; Alfie Ogborne; Josh Thomas; Shoaib Bashir; JT Langridge; Fin Hill; Archie Vaughan; Thomas Rew; Joe Heyhoe; Jake Ball; Jack Leach; Josh Davey; Lewis Gregory; Craig Overton; Andrew Umeed; Matt Henry; Tom Abell; Tom Kohler-Cadmore; Matt Renshaw; Ben Green; Sean Dickson; Riley Meredith.
- Surrey: Ollie Pope; Will Jacks; Ryan Patel; Spencer Johnson; James Taylor; Gus Atkinson; Jamie Smith; Nathan Barnwell; Tom Lawes; Josh Blake; Yousef Majid; Adam Thomas; Tommy Ealham; Seb Stuart-Reckling; Ollie Sykes; Chris Jordan; Kemar Roach; Jason Roy; Laurie Evans; Rory Burns; Jordan Clark; Ben Foakes; Reece Topley; Matt Dunn; Jamie Overton; Daniel Worrall; Dom Sibley; Cameron Steel; Matthew Fisher; Tom Curran; Mitchell Santner; Dan Lawrence; Sam Curran; Nathan Smith.
- Sussex Sharks: Tom Haines; Danny Lamb; Harrison Ward; Tom Clark; Jayden Seales; Henry Crocombe; Jack Carson; James Coles; Sean Hunt; Danial Ibrahim; Archie Lenham; Ollie Carter; George Thomas; Charlie Tear; Brad Currie; Aristides Karvelas; Zach Lion-Cachet; Bertie Foreman; Henry Rogers; Nantes Oosthuizen; Troy Henry; John Simpson; Jaydev Unadkat; Tymal Mills; Gurinder Sandhu; Daniel Hughes; Tom Alsop; Ollie Robinson; Fynn Hudson-Prentice; Nathan McAndrew; Jofra Archer.
- Worcestershire Rapids: Adam Finch; Ben Allison; Kashif Ali; Ethan Brookes; Tommy Sturgess; Henry Cullen; Fateh Singh; Tom Hinley; Ben Gibbon; Rehaan Edavalath; Hishaam Khan; Jack Home.
(Squad information is drawn from official club announcements and media reports. The above rosters include all players registered for the T20 Blast as of May 2025.)
How to Watch
- Official Broadcaster: Star Sports (India and select regions).
Sources: Official ECB and county publications (schedule announcement) and team websites.
