| 2014 NatWest t20 Blast | |
| Administrator: | England and Wales Cricket Board |
| Cricket Format: | Twenty20 |
| Tournament Format: | Group stage and knockout |
| Champions: | Birmingham Bears |
| Count: | 1 |
| Participants: | 18 |
| Matches: | 133 |
| Attendance: | 704205 |
| Most Runs: | Jason Roy, Surrey (677) |
| Most Wickets: | Jeetan Patel, Birmingham Bears (25) |
| Previous Year: | 2013 |
| Previous Tournament: | 2013 Twenty20 Cup |
| Next Year: | 2015 |
| Next Tournament: | 2015 T20 Blast |
| Website: | NatWest T20 Blast |
The 2014 NatWest T20 Blast was the twelfth edition of the T20 Blast formerly known as the NatWest T20 Blast, the English Twenty20 cricket competition. The competition ran from 16 May 2014 until Finals Day at Edgbaston on 23 August, which was won by Birmingham Bears. The competition replaced the Friends Life t20 competition. With attendance figures over 700,000, it was the most attended season of T20 cricket in England since the format began in 2003.[1]
The 18 teams were divided into two groups of nine. In the style of a round-robin tournament, each team played six other teams in their group both home and away. The other two teams were faced just once. The top four teams from each group qualified for the knockout stage: a three-round single-elimination tournament. The winner of each group had a home match in the quarter-finals against the fourth team from the other group. The runners-up from each group played at home against the third placed team from the other group. The semi-finals were a free draw from all the qualified teams.[2] Finals Day will be again be held at Edgbaston.[3]
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The following table lists the five highest team scores in the season.[4]
| width=200 | Team | width=50 | Total | width=200 | Opponent | width=300 | Ground |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 229/4 | New Road, Worcester | ||||||
| Sussex Sharks | 226/3 | Essex Eagles | County Ground | ||||
| 225/7 | Old Trafford, Manchester | ||||||
| Essex Eagles | 225/3 | Sussex Sharks | County Ground | ||||
| 220/4 | Grace Road, Leicester |
The top five highest run scorers (total runs) in the season are included in this table.[5]
| width=150 | Player | width=200 | Team | width=50 | Runs | width=50 | Inns | width=50 | width=50 | width=50 | width=50 | 100s | width=50 | 50s | width=50 | 4s | width=50 | 6s | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jason Roy | Surrey | 677 | 15 | 48.35 | 157.07 | 0 | 9 | 77 | 27 | ||||||||||||
| Luke Wright | Sussex Sharks | 601 | 14 | 50.08 | 162.43 | 153 | 2 | 3 | 56 | 28 | |||||||||||
| Jim Allenby | Glamorgan | 548 | 13 | 45.66 | 137.68 | 105 | 1 | 4 | 63 | 14 | |||||||||||
| Jacques Rudolph | Glamorgan | 543 | 13 | 60.33 | 123.40 | 75 | 0 | 6 | 61 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Tom Westley | Essex Eagles | 538 | 14 | 44.83 | 149.86 | 2 | 1 | 59 | 16 |
This table contains the top five highest scores of the season made by a batsman in a single innings.[6]
| width=150 | Player | width=200 | Team | width=50 | Score | width=50 | Balls | width=50 | 4s | width=50 | 6s | width=200 | Opponent | width=300 | Ground |
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| Luke Wright | Sussex Sharks | 153 | 66 | 12 | 11 | Essex Eagles | County Ground | ||||||||
| Daniel Christian | Middlesex Panthers | 129 | 57 | 12 | 10 | Kent Spitfires | St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury | ||||||||
| Luke Wright | Sussex Sharks | 116 | 66 | 13 | 4 | Hampshire | The Rose Bowl, Southampton | ||||||||
| Tom Westley | Essex Eagles | 109 | 58 | 12 | 5 | Sussex Sharks | County Ground | ||||||||
| Jim Allenby | Glamorgan | 105 | 63 | 14 | 3 | Middlesex Panthers | Old Deer Park, Richmond |
The following table contains the five leading wicket-takers of the season.[7]
| width=150 | Player | width=200 | Team | width=50 | width=50 | width=50 | width=50 | width=50 | width=50 | ||||||
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| Jeetan Patel | Birmingham Bears | 25 | 15 | 12.96 | 12.7 | 6.11 | 4/19 | ||||||||
| Dirk Nannes | Somerset | 24 | 13 | 15.54 | 11.6 | 8.02 | 5/31 | ||||||||
| Michael Hogan | Glamorgan | 21 | 13 | 19.52 | 14.5 | 8.03 | 3/30 | ||||||||
| Danny Briggs | Hampshire | 21 | 15 | 20.71 | 16.8 | 7.37 | 4/28 | ||||||||
| Kabir Ali | Lancashire Lightning | 20 | 11 | 14.95 | 11.7 | 7.66 | 3/19 |
This table lists the top five players with the best bowling figures in the season.[8]
| width=150 | Player | width=200 | Team | width=50 | Overs | width=50 | Figures | width=200 | Opponent | width=300 | Ground |
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| Anthony Ireland | Leicestershire Foxes | 3.5 | 5/22 | Derbyshire Falcons | Queen's Park, Chesterfield | ||||||
| Jesse Ryder | Essex Eagles | 3.5 | 5/27 | Kent Spitfires | Castle Park Cricket Ground, Colchester | ||||||
| Daryl Mitchell | Worcestershire Rapids | 4.0 | 5/28 | Northamptonshire Steelbacks | County Ground, Northampton | ||||||
| Dirk Nannes | Somerset | 3.5 | 5/31 | Sussex Sharks | Arundel Castle, Arundel | ||||||
| Richard Jones | Leicestershire Foxes | 4.0 | 5/34 | Lancashire Lightning | Old Trafford, Manchester |
