The 2025 T20 Blast (also known as 2025 Vitality Blast for sponsoring reasons) was the 23rd 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 29 May to 13 September 2025. 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.
Format
The playing format was the same as the previous season, where groups remained the same with the familiar North and South split, while each county played 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 , South Group: Essex, Glamorgan, Gloucestershire, Hampshire Hawks, Kent Spitfires, Middlesex, Somerset, Surrey, Sussex Sharks
Fixtures
In November 2024, the ECB announced the fixtures for the tournament.
May
Lancashire Lightning won the toss and elected to bat. , Fateh Singh and Tom Hinley (Worcestershire Rapids) both made their T20 debuts.
Middlesex won the toss and elected to field.
Gloucestershire won the toss and elected to field. , Aman Rao (Gloucestershire) made his T20 debut.
Essex Eagles won the toss and elected to field.
Leicestershire Foxes won the toss and elected to field. , Nick Potts (Derbyshire Falcons) made his T20 debut.
Notts Outlaws won the toss and elected to field. , Kai Smith and Adam Sylvester (Birmingham Bears) both made their T20 debuts.
Somerset won the toss and elected to field. , Thomas Rew (Somerset) and Yousef Majid (Surrey) both made their T20 debuts.
Yorkshire won the toss and elected to field.
Durham won the toss and elected to field.
Lancashire Lightning won the toss and elected to bat. , Charlie Barnard (Lancashire Lightning) made his T20 debut.
June
Lancashire Lightning won the toss and elected to field.
Yorkshire won the toss and elected field. , Yorkshire were set a revised target of 196 runs from 19.3 overs.
Essex won the toss and elected to bat.
Middlesex won the toss and elected to bat.
Northants Steelbacks won the toss and elected to field.
Gloucestershire won the toss and elected to field.
Glamorgan won the toss and elected to field.
Derbyshire Falcons won the toss and elected to field.
Lancashire Lightning won the toss and elected to bat.
Middlesex won the toss and elected to field. , Rain prevented any further play.
Hampshire Hawks won the toss and elected to field.
Birmingham Bears won the toss and elected to field.
Notts Outlaws won the toss and elected to field. , Notts Outlaws were set a revised target of 120 runs off 15 overs.
Glamorgan won the toss and elected to field.
Gloucestershire won the toss and elected to bat.
Kent Spitfires won the toss and elected to field.
Durham won the toss and elected to field.
Somerset won the toss and elected to field.
Northants Steelbacks won the toss and elected to bat. , Ben Sanderson (Northants Steelbacks) took his maiden five-wicket haul and also took his first hat-trick in T20s.
Notts Outlaws won the toss and elected to field.
Derbyshire Falcons won the toss and elected to field.
Middlesex won the toss and elected to field.
Hampshire Hawks won the toss and elected to bat.
Northants Steelbacks won the toss and elected to bat.
Sussex Sharks won the toss and elected to bat.
Leicestershire Foxes won the toss and elected to field.
Derbyshire Falcons won the toss and elected to field.
Birmingham Bears won the toss and elected to field.
Yorkshire won the toss and elected to bat.
Essex Eagles won the toss and elected to field.
Somerset won the toss and elected to field.
Surrey won the toss and elected to field.
Somerset won the toss and elected to field.
Middlesex won the toss and elected to field. , The match was reduced to 6 overs per side due to rain. , Middlesex were set a revised target of 76 runs from 6 overs due to rain.
Durham won the toss and elected to bat.
Notts Outlaws won the toss and elected to field.
Sussex Sharks won the toss and elected to field. , The match was reduced to 17 overs per side due to rain. , Noah Thain (Essex Eagles) made his T20 debut.
Worcestershire Rapids won the toss and elected to bat.
Birmingham Bears won the toss and elected to bat.
Notts Outlaws won the toss and elected to field.
Leicestershire Foxes won the toss and elected to bat.
Sussex Sharks won the toss and elected to bat.
Glamorgan won the toss and elected to bat.
Worcestershire Rapids won the toss and elected to bat.
Somerset won the toss and elected to field.
Durham won the toss and elected to field. , Matthew Potts (Durham) took his maiden five-wicket haul in T20s.
Hampshire Hawks won the toss and elected to field.
Kent Spitfires won the toss and elected to field.
Sussex Sharks won the toss and elected to field.
Worcestershire Rapids won the toss and elected to field. , Isaac Mohammed (Worcestershire Rapids) made his T20 debut.
Leicestershire Foxes won the toss and elected to field.
Essex Eagles won the toss and elected to field. , Naavya Sharma (Middlesex) made his T20 debut.
Hampshire Hawks 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.
Yorkshire won the toss and elected to field.
Essex Eagles won the toss and elected to field.
Somerset won the toss and elected to field.
Gloucestershire won the toss and elected to field.
Notts Outlaws won the toss and elected to bat.
Middlesex won the toss and elected to field.
July
Notts Outlaws won the toss and elected to field. , Kasey Aldridge (Durham) took his maiden five-wicket haul in T20s.
Essex Eagles won the toss and elected to field.
Kent Spitfires won the toss and elected to field. , Danny Lamb (Sussex Sharks) took his maiden five-wicket haul in T20s.
Birmingham Bears won the toss and elected to field.
Northants Steelbacks won the toss and elected to bat. , Saqib Mahmood (Lancashire Lightning) took his first hat-trick in T20s.
Somerset won the toss and elected to field. , Ned Leonard (Glamorgan) took his maiden five-wicket haul in T20s.
Worcestershire Rapids won the toss and elected to field. , Will O'Rourke (Yorkshire) took his maiden five-wicket haul in T20s.
Derbyshire Falcons won the toss and elected to field.
Sussex Sharks won the toss and elected to field.
Derbyshire Falcons won the toss and elected to field.
Birmingham Bears won the toss and elected to field.
Glamorgan won the toss and elected to field.
Middlesex won the toss and elected to field.
Somerset 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.
Essex Eagles won the toss and elected to field. , The match was reduced to 12 overs per side due to rain.
Essex Eagles won the toss and elected to field. , Charlie Bennett (Essex Eagles) made his T20 debut.
Lancashire Lightning won the toss and elected to field.
Gloucestershire won the toss and elected to field.
Hampshire Hawks won the toss and elected to field.
Sussex Sharks won the toss and elected to bat.
Worcestershire Rapids won the toss and elected to bat.
Hampshire Hawks won the toss and elected to bat.
Leicestershire Foxes won the toss and elected to field. , Joshua Thomas (Leicestershire Foxes) made his T20 debut.
Sussex Sharks won the toss and elected to bat.
Somerset won the toss and elected to field.
Yorkshire won the toss and elected to bat.
Middlesex won the toss and elected to bat. , Sebastian Morgan (Middlesex) made his T20 debut.
Derbyshire Falcons won the toss and elected to field.
Durham won the toss and elected to bat.
Glamorgan won the toss and elected to bat. , Dan Lawrence (Surrey) scored his maiden century in T20s.
Worcestershire Rapids won the toss and elected to field.
Northants Steelbacks won the toss and elected to bat.
Gloucestershire won the toss and elected bat.
Sussex won the toss and elected to bat.
Middlesex won the toss and elected to bat.
Durham won the toss and elected to bat.
Somerset won the toss and elected to field.
Leicestershire Foxes won the toss and elected to bat.
Derbyshire Falcons won the toss and elected to field. , Ben Aitchison (Yorkshire) took his maiden five-wicket haul in T20s.
No toss. , No play was possible due to rain.
Surrey won the toss and elected to bat.
Essex Eagles won the toss and elected to field. , Jordan Cox (Essex Eagles) scored his first century in T20s.
Gloucestershire won the toss and elected to bat.
Notts Outlaws won the toss and elected to field. , Ben Gibbon (Worcestershire Rapids) made his T20 debut.
Lancashire Lightning won the toss and elected bat. , Jos Buttler (Lancashire Lightning) scored his 13,000th run in T20s.
Birmingham Bears won the toss and elected to bat.
Northants Steelbacks won the toss and elected to bat. , Alex Lees (Durham) scored his maiden century in T20s.
Glamorgan won the toss and elected to field. , James Feldman (Middlesex) made his T20 debut.
Kent Spitfires won the toss and elected to field.
Yorkshire won the toss and field.
Lancashire Lightning won the toss and elected to bat. , Sam Seecharan (Notts Outlaws) made his T20 debut. , Farhan Ahmed (Lancashire Lightning) took his maiden five-wicket haul in T20s.
Somerset won the toss and elected to bat. , Tommy Boorman (Gloucestershire) made his T20 debut.
Surrey won the toss and elected to bat.
Quarter-finals
Surrey won the toss and elected to field. , The match was reduced to 14 overs per side due to rain.
Durham won the toss and elected to field.
Kent Spitfires won the toss and elected to bat.
Birmingham Bears won the toss and elected to bat.
Semi-finals
Lancashire Lightning won the toss and elected to field. , Arav Shetty (Lancashire) made his T20 debut.
Hampshire Hawks won the toss and elected to field. , The match was reduced to 18 overs per side due to rain.
Final
Somerset won the toss and elected to field.
