All 18 first-class counties will host not less than one girls’s and males’s Vitality Blast double-header subsequent season as a part of a historic 2025 home T20 summer season.
The 2025 season would be the first time all girls’s and males’s county groups will play aspect by aspect within the Vitality Blast, with the boys’s competitors getting into its twenty second 12 months and the ladies’s groups enjoying throughout two Vitality Blast competitions.
The eight counties from Tier One will compete within the Vitality Blast Girls’s competitors and the Vitality Blast Girls’s League 2 will function the ten remaining counties, with a complete of 52 girls’s and males’s double-headers staged throughout 20 venues subsequent season.
The Blast-Off weekend from Could 29-June 1 will kick-start the new-look competitors, with 10 double-headers and all eight of the Vitality Blast girls’s competitors counties concerned. Rivals Week will even proceed within the males’s competitors, with the oldest county rivalries taking centre stage.
The group stage will then come to a high-stakes conclusion with ‘Friday Finale’ on July 18, with eight males’s and eight girls’s matches scheduled, the place the ladies race for the three Finals Day spots and the boys have a final probability to e-book their place within the quarter-finals.
A primary-ever Vitality Blast Girls’s Finals Day will likely be staged on the Kia Oval on Sunday July 27, whereas Vitality Blast Males’s Finals Day takes place at Edgbaston on Saturday September 13.
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The most effective of the motion from Edgbaston as Somerset beat Essex by 14 runs to win the 2023 Vitality Blast closing
There will likely be 17 scheduled Vitality Blast males’s competitors matches on a Tuesday or Wednesday, a rise from 5 final summer season, whereas the variety of back-to-back video games has additionally been diminished by virtually a 3rd.
What’s the format and the way do groups attain closing day?
Every males’s county aspect performs 14 group-stage matches towards the counties of their respective teams. The highest 4 groups in every group progress to the quarter-finals, with these winners then qualifying for Finals Day.
North Group: Bears, Derbyshire Falcons, Durham, Lancashire Lightning, Leicestershire Foxes, Northamptonshire Steelbacks, Notts Outlaws, Worcestershire Rapids, Yorkshire Vikings.
South Group: Essex, Glamorgan, Gloucestershire, Hampshire Hawks, Kent Spitfires, Middlesex, Somerset, Sussex Sharks, Surrey.
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Watch one of the best catches from the ultimate day of the 2023 T20 Vitality Blast
What about within the girls’s competitors?
The eight sides within the Vitality Blast girls’s competitors play 14 group-stage matches, enjoying each group dwelling and away, with the highest three within the round-robin group then securing a spot at Finals Day.
Group: Bears, Durham, Essex, Hampshire Hawks, Lancashire Thunder, Somerset, Surrey, The Blaze.
The opposite ten groups competing within the Vitality Blast Girls’s League 2 are break up into two teams of 5, with every county enjoying eight group-stage matches and the highest two from each qualifying for Finals Day.
North Group: Derbyshire Falcons, Leicestershire Foxes, Northamptonshire Steelbacks, Worcestershire Rapids, Yorkshire.
South Group: Glamorgan, Gloucestershire, Kent, Middlesex, Sussex Sharks.
Opening fixtures – Blast-Off weekend, Could 29-June 1
Thursday, Could 29
Males – Lancashire Lightning vs Worcestershire Rapids (Emirates Previous Trafford)
Males – Middlesex vs Sussex Sharks (Lord’s)
Girls’s League 2 – Middlesex vs Sussex Sharks (Lord’s)
Friday, Could 30
Males – Gloucestershire vs Kent Spitfires (The Seat Distinctive Stadium, Bristol)
Girls – Hampshire Hawks vs Essex (Utilita Bowl)
Males – Hampshire Hawks vs Essex (Utilita Bowl)
Males – Leicestershire Foxes vs Derbyshire Falcons (Uptonsteel County Floor)
Males – Notts Outlaws vs Bears (Trent Bridge)
Girls – The Blaze vs Bears (Trent Bridge)
Males – Somerset vs Surrey (The Cooper Associates County Floor)
Girls – Somerset vs Surrey (The Cooper Associates County Floor)
Males – Yorkshire vs Northamptonshire Steelbacks (Headingley)
Saturday Could 31
Males – Bears vs Durham Cricket (Edgbaston)
Girls – Bears vs Durham Cricket (Edgbaston)
Males – Lancashire Lightning vs Notts Outlaws (Emirates Previous Trafford)
Girls – Lancashire Thunder vs The Blaze (Emirates Previous Trafford)
Sunday June 1
Males – Durham Cricket vs Lancashire Lightning (Seat Distinctive Riverside)
Girls – Durham Cricket vs Lancashire Thunder (Seat Distinctive Riverside)
Males – Worcestershire Rapids vs Yorkshire (Go to Worcestershire New Street)
Males – Essex vs Somerset (The Cloud County Floor)
Girls – Essex vs Somerset (The Cloud County Floor)
Males – Middlesex vs Glamorgan (Service provider Taylors’ Faculty)
Girls’s League 2 – Middlesex vs Glamorgan (Service provider Taylors’ Faculty)
Males – Northamptonshire Steelbacks vs Leicestershire Foxes (The County Floor Northampton)
Girls’s League 2 – Northamptonshire Steelbacks vs Leicestershire (The County Floor Northampton)
Males – Sussex Sharks vs Gloucestershire (The first Central County Floor, Hove)
Girls’s League 2 – Sussex Sharks vs Gloucestershire (The first Central County Floor, Hove)
Girls’s League 2 – Yorkshire vs Derbyshire Falcons (Headingley)
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