Editing T20 Blast (section)

{{short description|English professional twenty20 cricket league}}
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{{Infobox cricket tournament main
| name              = T20 Blast
| country           = England & Wales
| image             =T20_Blast_logo.svg 
| size              = 250px
| administrator     = [[England and Wales Cricket Board]]
| cricket format    = [[Twenty20]]
| first             = [[2003 Twenty20 Cup|2003]]
| last              = [[2024 T20 Blast|2024]]
| next              = [[2025 T20 Blast|2025]]
| tournament format = [[Group stage]] and [[Single-elimination tournament|knockout]]
| participants      = 18
| champions         = [[Gloucestershire County Cricket Club|Gloucestershire]] (1st title)
| most successful   = [[Leicestershire Foxes]] (3 titles) <br /> [[Hampshire Hawks]] (3 titles)
| TV                = [[Sky Sports]] <br> [[Fox Cricket]] (Australia) <br> BeIN Sports 3 EN (MENA). - 
[[Sony Sports Network]] (India)
| website           = [https://www.ecb.co.uk/t20-blast ECB Vitality Blast]
| current           = 
|caption=The current Vitality Blast logo}}
{{Infobox
| bodyclass        = nowraplinks
| header1          = Season
| data2            = [[2003 Twenty20 Cup|2003]] • [[2004 Twenty20 Cup|2004]] • [[2005 Twenty20 Cup|2005]] • [[2006 Twenty20 Cup|2006]] • [[2007 Twenty20 Cup|2007]] • [[2008 Twenty20 Cup|2008]] • [[2009 Twenty20 Cup|2009]] • [[2010 Twenty20 Cup|2010]] • [[2011 Twenty20 Cup|2011]] • [[2012 Twenty20 Cup|2012]] • [[2013 Twenty20 Cup|2013]] • [[2014 T20 Blast|2014]] • [[2015 T20 Blast|2015]] • [[2016 T20 Blast|2016]] • [[2017 T20 Blast|2017]] • [[2018 T20 Blast|2018]] • [[2019 T20 Blast|2019]] • [[2020 T20 Blast|2020]] • [[2021 T20 Blast|2021]] • [[2022 T20 Blast|2022]] • [[2023 T20 Blast|2023]] • [[2024 T20 Blast|2024]] • [[2025 T20 Blast|2025]]
}}

The '''T20 Blast''', officially known as the '''[[Vitality Health and Life Insurance|Vitality]] Blast''' for sponsorship reasons, is a professional [[Twenty20]] [[cricket]] league in England and Wales. The competition was established by the [[England and Wales Cricket Board]] (ECB) in 2003. T20 Blast is the oldest domestic T20 league in the world. It is one of the top-level Twenty20 league in the world. Vitality Blast comprises 18 teams, with 17 in the England and 1 in Wales.
The competition has been known by a variety of names due to commercial sponsorship. It was known as the '''Twenty20 Cup''' from 2003 to 2009, the '''Friends Provident t20''' and '''Friends Life t20''' from 2010 to 2013, and the '''Natwest t20 Blast''' from 2014 to 2017. The competition has been sponsored by insurance company [[VitalityHealth|Vitality]] since 2018 and is known as the '''Vitality Blast'''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ecb.co.uk/news/617915/vitality-announced-as-new-title-partner-for-t20-cricket|title=Vitality announced as new title partner for T20 cricket|date=7 February 2018|website=England and Wales Cricket Board|access-date=1 February 2018}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.thecricketer.com/Topics/t20_blast/ecb_announce_vitality_as_new_t20_blast_sponsor.html|title=ECB announce Vitality as new T20 Blast sponsor|website=www.thecricketer.com|access-date=1 October 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8053/report/1127580/worcestershire-vs-sussex-final-vitality-blast-2018|title=Recent Match Report - Worcestershire vs Sussex, Twenty20 Cup (England), Final {{!}} ESPNcricinfo.com|website=ESPNcricinfo|date=15 September 2018 |language=en|access-date=1 October 2019}}</ref>