Today we’re going to be talking about the oldest T20 league in the world. England’s premier domestic T20 tournament, the league has gone through several name changes for sponsorship reasons, from the English T20 Cup to Friend’s Provident T20 to Friend’s Life T20 to Natwest T20 Blast and to its current name which is the Vitality T20 Blast.
From humble beginnings in 2003, the T20 tournament has grown to become super popular over the years and couple of decades. All of England’s regional teams get together and battle it out each year, with a good mix of local players and the top international stars as well. And while some teams have done brilliantly, others are still struggling and trying to find success in the England Vitality T20 Blast.
The tournament follows a divisional group stage format, where teams play in their own groups before playing to the T20 Blast knockout stages. The tournament is usually played in the May-August time slot every year, to attract the most amount of crowds during the summer vacations period in the country. Today, we’re listing down all the T20 Blast winners from start till date, last updated as of 8th May 2023.
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Out of twenty completed seasons of the T20 Blast at the time of us writing this, the most successful teams in T20 Blast history are Leicestershire and Hampshire. They’ve both entered the final of this tournament on three separate occasions and they have a 100% win record in T20 Blast finals, winning all three of their respective finals appearances each. See our complete Vitality Blast winners list below:
English T20 Blast winners list
| Year | Winner | Runner-up | Venue | Man of the Match |
| 2003 | Surrey Lions | Warwickshire Bears | Trent Bridge | Jimmy Ormond |
| 2004 | Leicestershire Foxes | Surrey Lions | Edgbaston | Brad Hodge |
| 2005 | Somerset Sabres | Lancashire Lightning | The Oval | Graeme Smith |
| 2006 | Leicestershire Foxes (2) | Notts Outlaws | Trent Bridge | Darren Maddy |
| 2007 | Kent Spitfires | Gloucestershire Gladiators | Edgbaston | Ryan McLaren |
| 2008 | Middlesex Crusaders | Kent Spitfires | Rose Bowl | Owais Shah |
| 2009 | Sussex Sharks | Somerset Sabres | Edgbaston | Dwayne Smith |
| 2010 | Hampshire Royals | Somerset | Rose Bowl | Neil McKenzie |
| 2011 | Leicestershire Foxes (3) | Somerset | Edgbaston | Josh Cobb |
| 2012 | Hampshire Royals (2) | Yorkshire Carnegie | Sophia Gardens | David Miller |
| 2013 | Northants Steelbacks | Surrey | Edgbaston | David Willey |
| 2014 | Birmingham Bears (Warwickshire) | Lancashire Lightning | Edgbaston | Laurie Evans |
| 2015 | Lancashire Lightning | Durham Jets | Edgbaston | Alex Davies |
| 2016 | Northants Steelbacks (2) | Northants Steelbacks | Edgbaston | Josh Cobb (2) |
| 2017 | Notts Outlaws | Birmingham Bears (Warwickshire) | Edgbaston | Samit Patel |
| 2018 | Worcestershire Rapids | Sussex Sharks | Edgbaston | Ben Cox |
| 2019 | Essex Eagles | Worcestershire Rapids | Edgbaston | Simon Harmer |
| 2020 | Notts Outlaws (2) | Surrey | Edgbaston | Dan Christian |
| 2021 | Kent Spitfires (2) | Somerset | Edgbaston | Jordan Cox |
| 2022 | Hampshire Hawks (3) | Lancashire Lightning | Edgbaston | Ben McDermott |
While we’ve mentioned the most successful team in the competition, let’s also talk about one of the most consistent teams in the T20 Blast. The only team to have made the T20 Blast finals on five different occasions is Somerset who ended up winning only once but made four other finals and ended as runner-up, including three consecutive runner-up finishes between 2009 – 2011.
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Quite a few counties have even won the T20 Blast title on a couple of occasions, including Kent, Northamptonshire, and Nottinghamshire. From all of these teams, Hampshire holds the record for the most number of T20 Blast semi finals stage and beyond appearances, making it to the semi final on eight occasions, including six consecutive times between 2010 – 2015. Quite a statistic, isn’t it?!
Among the individuals who have performed in the T20 Blast Finals, there’s one player who has written his name down in this tournament’s rich history. Only one player has gone on to win the Man of the Match award in two different finals and that’s Josh Cobb having won this award in the 2011 and 2016 finals, representing Leicestershire and Northants respectively in those finals.
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