List of English Twenty20 cricket champions

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Leicestershire (pictured celebrating their semi-final win in 2011) have won the joint-most English Twenty20 titles, winning on three occasions. Leicestershire celebrate.jpg
Leicestershire (pictured celebrating their semi-final win in 2011) have won the joint-most English Twenty20 titles, winning on three occasions.

The English Twenty20 cricket champions are the winners of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) Twenty20 competition for first-class cricket counties, most recently the Friends Life t20, although from 2014 this has been replaced with the NatWest t20 Blast. The competition culminates with 'Finals Day': a single day on which both semi-finals and the final are contested at the same ground. [1] Somerset are the current champions, claiming their second title in the 2023 season.

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Twenty20 cricket was developed by the ECB to attract new, younger audiences to cricket. [2] Replacing the 50 overs-per-side 'Benson & Hedges Cup', [3] the 'Twenty20 Cup' was introduced in 2003, and was over two hours shorter than its predecessor, and matches also featured greater entertainment off the field, such as live music, barbecues, fancy dress and karaoke. [4] The competition was rebranded as the 'Friends Provident t20' in 2010, [5] and a season later as the 'Friends Life t20'. [6] In 2014, the competition became known as the NatWest t20 Blast. For the first seven years of the competition, teams were allowed one overseas player, as in the other domestic tournaments, but from the 2010 season, each team was allowed two. [7] The finalists in both 2009 and 2011 qualified for the Champions League Twenty20, an international competition between the leading domestic teams from the major cricketing nations. [8] [9]

The competition was won in its inaugural season by Surrey, and in the twenty seasons that it has run, it has been won by thirteen different counties. Leicestershire and Hampshire have won the competition on the most occasions, doing so three times. [10] Somerset have contested more finals than any other team; as well as winning the competition in 2005 and 2023, they were losing finalists in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2021. [11]

Men's champions

List of English men's Twenty20 cricket champions
YearWinnerRunners-upVenuePlayer (club)RunsPlayer (club)WicketsNotes
Leading run-scorerLeading wicket-taker
2003 Surrey Warwickshire Trent Bridge, Nottinghamshire Flag of Australia (converted).svg Brad Hodge (Leicestershire)301 Flag of England.svg Adam Hollioake (Surrey)16 [12] [13]
2004 Leicestershire Surrey Edgbaston, Warwickshire Flag of England.svg Darren Maddy (Leicestershire)356 Flag of England.svg Adam Hollioake (Surrey)20 [14] [15]
2005 Somerset Lancashire The Oval, London Flag of England.svg Owais Shah (Middlesex)410 Flag of England.svg Nayan Doshi (Surrey)17 [16] [17]
2006 Leicestershire Nottinghamshire Trent Bridge, Nottinghamshire Flag of Australia (converted).svg Justin Langer (Somerset)464 Flag of England.svg Nayan Doshi (Surrey)21 [18] [19]
2007 Kent Gloucestershire Edgbaston, Warwickshire Flag of England.svg Luke Wright (Sussex)346 Flag of England.svg Chris Schofield (Surrey),
Flag of England.svg Simon Cook (Kent)
17 [20] [21]
2008 Middlesex Kent The Rose Bowl, Hampshire Flag of England.svg Joe Denly (Kent)451 Flag of Pakistan.svg Yasir Arafat (Kent)23 [22] [23]
2009 Sussex Somerset Edgbaston, Warwickshire Flag of England.svg Jonathan Trott (Warwickshire)525 Flag of South Africa.svg Alfonso Thomas (Somerset)18 [24] [25]
2010 Hampshire Somerset The Rose Bowl, Hampshire Flag of England.svg Jimmy Adams (Hampshire)668 Flag of South Africa.svg Alfonso Thomas (Somerset)33 [26] [27]
2011 Leicestershire Somerset Edgbaston, Warwickshire Flag of Australia (converted).svg Andrew McDonald (Leicestershire)584 Flag of England.svg Tim Phillips (Essex)26 [28] [29]
2012 Hampshire Yorkshire Sophia Gardens, Glamorgan Flag of Australia (converted).svg Phillip Hughes (Worcestershire)402 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Mitchell Starc (Yorkshire)21 [30] [31]
2013 Northamptonshire Surrey Edgbaston, Warwickshire Flag of England.svg Craig Kieswetter (Somerset)517 Flag of Pakistan.svg Azharullah (Northamptonshire)27 [32] [33]
2014 Birmingham Bears [lower-alpha 1] Lancashire Flag of England.svg Jason Roy (Surrey)677 Flag of New Zealand.svg Jeetan Patel (Birmingham Bears)25 [34] [35]
2015 Lancashire Northamptonshire Flag of England.svg James Vince (Hampshire)710 Flag of Australia (converted).svg James Faulkner (Lancashire)25 [36] [37]
2016 Northamptonshire Durham Flag of Australia (converted).svg Michael Klinger (Gloucestershire)548 Flag of England.svg Benny Howell (Gloucestershire)24 [38] [39]
2017 Nottinghamshire Warwickshire Flag of England.svg Joe Denly (Kent)567 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Clint McKay (Leicestershire)23 [40] [41]
2018 Worcestershire Sussex Flag of England.svg Laurie Evans (Sussex)614 Flag of England.svg Pat Brown (Worcestershire)31
2019 Essex Worcestershire Flag of Pakistan.svg Babar Azam (Somerset)578 Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg Ravi Rampaul (Derbyshire)23
2020 Nottinghamshire Surrey Flag of England.svg Daniel Bell-Drummond (Kent)423 Flag of England.svg Jake Ball (Nottinghamshire)19
2021 Kent Somerset Flag of Australia (converted).svg Josh Inglis (Leicestershire)531 Flag of the Taliban.svg Naveen-ul-Haq (Leicestershire)26
2022 Hampshire Lancashire Flag of England.svg James Vince (Hampshire)678 Flag of England.svg Richard Gleeson (Lancashire)25
2023 Somerset Essex Flag of England.svg James Vince (Hampshire)670 Flag of New Zealand.svg Matt Henry (Somerset)31
2024 Gloucestershire Somerset

Performance by county (Men's)

Titles won by club (%)

  Leicestershire – 3 (14.3%)
  Hampshire – 3 (14.3%)
  Kent – 2 (9.5%)
  Northamptonshire - 2 (9.5%)
  Nottinghamshire - 2 (9.5%)
  Somerset - 2 (9.5%)
  Others – 7 (33.3%)
TitlesClubTitle-winning seasons
3 Leicestershire 2004, 2006, 2011
Hampshire 2010, 2012, 2022
2 Somerset 2005, 2023
Kent 2007, 2021
Northamptonshire 2013, 2016
Nottinghamshire 2017, 2020
1 Essex 2019
Lancashire 2015
Middlesex 2008
Surrey 2003
Sussex 2009
Birmingham Bears 2014
Worcestershire 2018

Women's champions

Former England captain Charlotte Edwards led the Southern Vipers to the inaugural WCSL title in 2016 Charlotte Edwards.jpg
Former England captain Charlotte Edwards led the Southern Vipers to the inaugural WCSL title in 2016
List of English Women's Twenty20 cricket champions
YearWinnerRunners-upVenuePlayer (club)RunsPlayer (club)WicketsNotes
Leading run-scorerLeading wicket-taker
2016 Southern Vipers Western Storm County Cricket Ground, Chelmsford Flag of Jamaica.svg Stafanie Taylor (Western Storm)289 Flag of Jamaica.svg Stafanie Taylor (Western Storm)11 [42] [43]
2017 Western Storm Southern Vipers County Cricket Ground, Hove Flag of New Zealand.svg Rachel Priest (Western Storm)261 Flag of England.svg Nat Sciver (Surrey Stars)12 [44] [45]
2018 Surrey Stars Loughborough Lightning Flag of India.svg Smriti Mandhana (Western Storm)421 Flag of Scotland.svg Kirstie Gordon (Loughborough Lightning)17
2019 Western Storm Southern Vipers Flag of England.svg Danielle Wyatt (Southern Vipers)466 Flag of England.svg Freya Davies (Western Storm)19
2021 South East Stars Northern Diamonds Rose Bowl, Southampton Flag of England.svg Evelyn Jones (Central Sparks)276 Flag of England.svg Bryony Smith (South East Stars)14 [46] [47]
2022 Southern Vipers Central Sparks County Ground, Northampton Flag of England.svg Amy Jones (Central Sparks)289 Flag of England.svg Katie Levick (Northern Diamonds)15 [48] [49]
2023 Southern Vipers The Blaze New Road, Worcester Flag of England.svg Danni Wyatt (Southern Vipers)273 Flag of South Africa.svg Nadine de Klerk (The Blaze)15 [50] [51]
2024 The Blaze South East Stars County Ground, Derby Flag of Scotland.svg Kathryn Bryce (The Blaze)478 Flag of England.svg Kirstie Gordon (The Blaze)22 [52] [53]

Performance by team (Women's)

Titles won by club (%)

  Southern Vipers – 3 (37.5%)
  Western Storm – 2 (25.0%)
  Surrey Stars – 1 (12.5%)
  South East Stars – 1 (12.5%)
  The Blaze – 1 (12.5%)
TitlesClubTitle-winning seasons
3 Southern Vipers 2016, 2022, 2023
2 Western Storm 2017, 2019
1 Surrey Stars 2018
South East Stars 2021
The Blaze 2024

Notes

  1. Since 2014, Warwickshire's Twenty20 team has been known as the Birmingham Bears.

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