The T20 Blast 2026, also known as Vitality Blast, will be the 24th edition of the tournament, a professional T20 cricket league played in England and Wales. The tournament is scheduled to run from 26 May to 18 July 2026.
Every county hosts six home games at its primary ground. Additionally, some counties use outgrounds like Blackpool, Chesterfield, and Richmond for select fixtures. The 2026 edition introduced a new format, with teams divided into four regional groups North, South, Central and West each consisting of six counties. Each side will play 12 group-stage matches as part of the structure.
T20 Blast 2026 Groups: All the Team names
Let us have a look at the teams in three groups of the Vitality Blast 2026:
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Group |
Team |
Homeground |
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North |
Derbyshire Falcons |
County Ground, Derby |
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North |
Durham |
Riverside |
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North |
Lancashire Lightning |
Old Trafford |
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North |
Leicestershire Foxes |
Grace Road, Leicester |
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North |
Notts Outlaws |
Trent Bridge |
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North |
Yorkshire |
Headingley, Leeds |
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Central |
Glamorgan |
Soffia Garden, Cardiff |
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Central |
Gloucestershire |
County Ground, Bristol |
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Central |
Northamptonshire Steelbacks |
County Ground, Northampton |
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Central |
Somerset |
County Ground, Taunton |
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Central |
Warwickshire Bears |
Edgbaston |
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Central |
Worcestershire Rapids |
New Road, Worcester |
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South |
Essex |
County Ground, Chelmsford |
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South |
Hampshire Hawks |
Southampton |
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South |
Kent Spitfires |
St. Lawrence Ground, Canterbury |
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South |
Middlesex |
Lord’s |
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South |
Surrey |
Kennington Oval |
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South |
Sussex Sharks |
County Ground, Hove |
T20 Blast 2026 Squads, Players List, and Teams
North Group Squads -
Derbyshire Falcons - Samit Patel, Harry Came, Wayne Madsen, Mitchell Wagstaff, Caleb Jewell, Matthew Montgomery, Aneurin Donald(c), Brooke Guest, Luis Reece, Ross Whiteley, Anuj Dal, Martin Andersson, Yusaf Bin Naeem, Harry Moore, Amrit Basra, Zak Chappell, Shoaib Bashir, Ben Aitchison, Jack Morley, Nick Potts, Pat Brown, Mohammad Abbas, Rory Haydon, Joe Hawkins.
Durham- Alex Lees (c), Ben McKinney, Ollie Robinson, Emilio Gay, Graham Clark, David Bedingham, Sam Conners, Nathan Sowter, David Hogg, Alex Bailey, Callum Parkinson, Mark Wood, Matthew Potts, Will Rhodes, Kasey Aldridge, Sami Ghafari, Ben Raine, George Drissell, Colin Ackermann, Ben Stokes, Scott Borthwick, Brydon Carse.
Lancashire Lightning- Keaton Jennings(c), Phil Salt, Jos Buttler, Liam Livingstone, Tom Moores, Matty Hurst, Michael Jones, Marcus Harris, Kusal Fonseka, Rocky Flintoff, George Bell, Luke Wells, Keaton Jennings, Ajaz Patel, Olly Sutton, Chris Barnard, Mitchell Stanley, Tom Aspinwall, Jack Blatherwick, Luke Wood, Tom Hartley, George Balderson, Saqib Mahmood, Tom Bailey, James Anderson, Phil Coughlin, Ahmad Shetty, Chris Green, Hassan Singh, Josh Bohannon, Steven Croft.
Leicester Foxes - Peter Handscomb, Louis Kimber(c), Lewis Hill (wk), Stephen Eskinazi (wk), Sol Budinger, Ben Cox, Jonathan Tattersall (wk), Jake Weatherald, Josh Davey, Josh Hull, Liam Trevaskis, Sam Wood, Alex Green, Ajaz Patel, Ben Mike, Rishi Patel, Rehan Ahmed, Tom Scriven, Ian Holland, Ben Green.
Notts Outlaws- Stephen Mullaney, Joe Clarke(c), Ben Duckett, Haseeb Hameed, James Hayes, Tom Holland, Tom Moores, Dane Schadendorf, Ben Slater, Kane Verreynne, Toby Giles, Sammy King, Conor McKerr, Fergus Moore, Dillon Pennington, Sol Beecheno, Olly Stone, Jon Tongue, Farhan Ahmed, Marcus Henriques, Brett Hutton, Lyndon James, Reece Lord, Ben Martindale, Fateh McCann, Liam Patterson-White.
Yorkshire - Shan Masood, Adam Lyth, Fin Bean, Harry Brook, Harry Duke, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow(c), Matthew Revis, Yusaf Vagedia, Will Luxton, Nick Kelly, Adil Rashid, Ash Wade, Ben Coad, Dom Moriarty, Dom Bess, Jordan White, Jafer Chohan, Naveen-ul-Haq, Hasan Ali, Logan Van Beek, Jake Richardson, Callum Taylor, Ben Cliff, George Hill, James Wharton, Jawaid Akhtar, Will Bennison, Moeen Ali.
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Central Group Squads
Glamorgan- Chris Cooke, Kiran Carlson(c), James Bell, Chris Nicholls, Ben Dickson, Billy Root, Colin Ingram, Kiran Carlson, Eddie Byrom, Zain-ul-Hassan, Henry Hurle, Will Smale, Asa Horton, Asa Tribe, Ben Kellaway, Dan Douthwaite, Ben Morris, Ned Leonard, Jamie McIlroy, Ryan Hadley, Ryan Francis, Tristan Norton, Nathan McAndrew, Mason Crane, Tim van der Gugten, Andrew Gorvin.
Gloucestershire- Graeme van Buuren, Jack Taylor(c), Cameron Bancroft, James Phillips, James Bracey, Dawid Malan, D’Arcy Short, Ben Charlesworth, Karam Dhariwal, Miles Hammond, George Bull, Will Williams, David Payne, Liam Charlesworth, Ahmed Syed, Craig Miles, Marchant de Lange, MD Taylor, Lewis Scott, Jack Taylor, Ajeet Rao, Ed Middleton, Oliver Price, Tom Boorman, Dilshan Ahmed.
Northamptonshire Steelbacks - David Willey (c), George Bartlett, Arush Buchake, Louis Kimber, Lewis McManus, Aadi Sharma, Stuart van der Merwe, Ricardo Vasconcelos, Harry Conway, Liam Guthrie, Dominic Leech, Tiaan Louw, Nirvan Ramesh, Ben Sanderson, George Scrimshaw, Raphael Weatherall, Luke Procter, Justin Broad, Calvin Harrison, Rob Keogh, Angus Miller, James Sales, Saif Zaib.
Somerset- Tom Abell, Lewis Gregory(c), James Rew, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Will Smeed, Kasey Roberts, Tom Banton, Jaden Rew, Joel Langridge, Josh Shaw, Freddie Hill, Riley Meredith, Jack Bull, Jack Theedom, Jack Leach, Dan Sams, Tom Lammonby, Lewis Gregory, Craig Overton, Migael Pretorius, Lewis Goldsworthy, James Thomas, Alfie Ogborne.
Warwickshire Bears - Moeen Ali, Ed Barnard(c), Alex Davies, Kristian Smith, Tom Wylie, Sam Hain, Hamza Shaikh, Rob Yates, Jacob Bethell, Michael Booth, Beau Webster, Zen Malik, Dan Mousley, Chris Woakes, Ed Barnard, Jordan Thompson, Ed Bamber, Tilhan Fernando, Keith Barker, Richard Gleeson, Nathan Gilchrist, Olly Hannon-Dalby, Jake Lintott, Che Simmons.
Worcestershire Rapids- Brett D’Oliveira (c), Jake Libby, Adam Hose, Henry Cullen, Rob Jones, Imran Mohammed, Gareth Roderick, Ben Allison, Henry Darley, Adam Finch, Joe Horne, Fateh Singh, Matthew Waite, Usama Mir, Kashif Ali, Ethan Brookes, Rob Edavalath, Ben Gibbon, Daniel Lategan, Tom Taylor, Beyers Swanepoel, Sikandar Raza.
Southern Group Squads
Essex Eagles - Simon Harmer (c), Charlie Allison, Dean Elgar, Jordan Cox (wk), Michael Pepper, Robin Das, Simon Fernandes, Tom Westley, Charlie Bennett, James Porter, Sam Cook, Shane Snater, Luc Benkenstein, Mackenzie Jones, Matthew Critchley, Mitchell Killeen, Noah Thain, Paul Walter, Wiaan Mulder, Zaman Akhter.
Hampshire Hawks- James Vince (c), Toby Albert, Ben Brown, Nick Gubbins, Joe Lehmann, Ben Mayes, Fletcha Middleton, Felix Organ, Ali Orr, Tom Stubbs, Joe Weatherley, Kyle Abbott, Sonny Baker, John Turner, Brad Wheal, Chris Wood, Hilton Cartwright, Scott Currie, Liam Dawson, James Fuller, Eddie Jack, Dom Kelly, Tom Prest, Chris Yousaf.
Kent Spitfires - Sam Billings (c), Daniel Bell-Drummond, Chris Benjamin (wk), Ben Compton, Zak Crawley, Ben Dawkins, Joe Denly, Joey Evison, Sam Northeast, Michael Cohen, Kieran Dudgeon, CL Flintoff, Fred Klaassen, Matt Milnes, Matthew Parkinson, Matt Quinn, Oli Curtiss, JK Denly, Harry Finch, Sandeep Muthusamy, Tawanda Muyeye, Tom Rogers, Ekansh Singh, Jas Singh, Grant Stewart.
Middlesex - Stephen Eskinazi (c), Joe Cracknell, Jack Davies (wk), Josh de Caires, Leus du Plooy, Caleb Falconer, Ben Geddes, Max Holden, Sam Robson, Eathan Bosch, Henry Brookes, Noah Cornwell, Blake Cullen, James Joseph Feldman, Nathan Fernandes, Zafar Gohar, Tom Helm, Ishaan Kaushal, Sebastian Morgan, Toby Roland-Jones, Aaryan Sawant, Naavya Sharma, Ryan Higgins.
Surrey - Chris Jordan, Sam Curran(c), Dom Sibley, Jason Roy, Laurie Evans, Rory Burns, Daniel Lawrence, Reece Albert, Archie French, Daniel Worrall, Gus Atkinson, James P Taylor, Matthew Fisher, Nathan Barnwell, Reece Topley, Stuart-Reckling, Yousef Majid, AG Thomas, Nathan Gorantla, Jordan Clark, Oli Sykes, Ryan Patel, Sam Curran, Cameron Steel, Tom Curran, Tom Lawes, Tom Earlham, Will Jacks, Jamie Overton, Sean Abbott.
Sussex Sharks - Tom Haines, Tymal Mills(c), John Simpson, Oli Carter, Tom Clark, Charlie Tear, Harrison Ward, Tom Alsop, Danny Briggs, Henry Crocombe, Tymal Mills, Bradley Currie, Danny Lamb, Jack Carson, Sean Hunt, Jofra Archer, Tom Henry, Ollie Robinson, Jaydev Unadkat, Jack Coles, Fynn Hudson-Prentice, Jack Leaning, Danial Ibrahim, Tom Price, George Thomas, Daniel Goodman.
