| 2015 NatWest t20 Blast | |
| Administrator: | England and Wales Cricket Board |
| Cricket Format: | Twenty20 |
| Tournament Format: | Group stage and knockout |
| Champions: | Lancashire Lightning |
| Count: | 1 |
| Participants: | 18 |
| Matches: | 133 |
| Most Runs: | James Vince, Hampshire (710) |
| Most Wickets: | James Faulkner, Lancashire Lightning (25) |
| Previous Year: | 2014 |
| Previous Tournament: | 2014 T20 Blast |
| Next Year: | 2016 |
| Next Tournament: | 2016 T20 Blast |
| Website: | NatWest T20 Blast |
The 2015 NatWest T20 Blast was the thirteenth edition of the T20 Blast formerly known as the NatWest T20 Blast, the English and Welsh Twenty20 cricket competition. The competition ran from 15 May 2015 to Finals Day at Edgbaston on 29 August. The competition was won for the first time by Lancashire Lightning, who defeated Northamptonshire Steelbacks in the final.
The 18 teams are divided into two groups of nine. In the style of a round-robin tournament, each team will play six other teams in their group both home and away. The other two teams will be faced just once. The top four teams from each group qualify for the knockout stage: a three-round single-elimination tournament. The winner of each group will have a home match in the quarter-finals against the fourth team from the other group. The runners-up from each group will play at home against the third placed team from the other group. The semi-finals will be a free draw from all the qualified teams.[1] Finals Day will be again be held at Edgbaston.[2]
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The following table lists the five highest team scores in the season.[3]
| width=200 | Team | width=50 | Total | width=200 | Opponent | width=300 | Ground |
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| Birmingham Bears | 242/2 | Derbyshire Falcons | Edgbaston, Birmingham | ||||
| Glamorgan | 240/3 | Surrey | The Oval, London | ||||
| Kent Spitfires | 231/7 | Surrey | The Oval, London | ||||
| Lancashire Lightning | 231/4 | Yorkshire Vikings | Old Trafford, Manchester | ||||
| Kent Spitfires | 227/7 | Somerset | County Ground, Taunton |
The top five highest run scorers (total runs) in the season are included in this table.[4]
| 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Vince | Hampshire | 710 | 16 | 59.19 | 134.46 | 107 | 1 | 5 | 87 | 14 | |||||||||||
| Michael Klinger | Gloucestershire | 654 | 12 | 81.75 | 142.17 | 126 | 3 | 4 | 54 | 21 | |||||||||||
| Sam Northeast | Kent Spitfires | 641 | 14 | 49.30 | 152.98 | 114 | 1 | 4 | 68 | 16 | |||||||||||
| Luke Wright | Sussex Sharks | 564 | 14 | 51.27 | 171.95 | 111 | 1 | 3 | 51 | 29 | |||||||||||
| Richard Levi | Northamptonshire | 485 | 16 | 34.64 | 143.49 | 67 | 0 | 3 | 61 | 15 |
This table contains the top five highest scores of the season made by a batsman in a single innings.[5]
| width=150 | Player | width=200 | Team | width=50 | Score | width=50 | Balls | width=50 | 4s | width=50 | 6s | width=200 | Opponent | width=300 | Ground |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brendon McCullum | Birmingham Bears | 158 | 64 | 13 | 11 | Derbyshire Falcons | Edgbaston, Birmingham | ||||||||
| Chris Gayle | Somerset | 151 | 62 | 10 | 15 | Kent Spitfires | County Ground, Taunton | ||||||||
| Michael Klinger | Gloucestershire | 126 | 68 | 7 | 8 | Essex Eagles | County Ground, Bristol | ||||||||
| Jason Roy | Surrey | 122 | 65 | 8 | 6 | Somerset | The Oval, London | ||||||||
| Dawid Malan | Middlesex | 115 | 64 | 14 | 3 | Sussex Sharks | County Ground, Hove |
The following table contains the five leading wicket-takers of the season.[6]
| width=150 | Player | width=200 | Team | width=50 | width=50 | width=50 | width=50 | width=50 | width=50 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| James Faulkner | Lancashire Lightning | 25 | 13 | 12.64 | 12.1 | 6.25 | 3/19 | ||||||||
| Stephen Parry | Lancashire Lightning | 25 | 16 | 15.68 | 13.6 | 6.87 | 4/16 | ||||||||
| Tom Smith | Gloucestershire | 23 | 12 | 13.13 | 11.2 | 7.02 | 5/39 | ||||||||
| Shaun Tait | Essex Eagles | 23 | 14 | 19.34 | 13.8 | 8.39 | 3/28 | ||||||||
| Usman Arshad | Durham Jets | 22 | 13 | 13.27 | 10.0 | 7.89 | 3/18 |
This table lists the top five players with the best bowling figures.[7]
| width=150 | Player | width=200 | Team | width=50 | Overs | width=50 | Figures | width=200 | Opponent | width=300 | Ground |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kyle Abbott | Middlesex | 4 | 5/14 | Sussex Sharks | County Ground, Hove | ||||||
| James Franklin | Middlesex | 4 | 5/21 | Kent Spitfires | Lord's, London | ||||||
| Matthew Fisher | Yorkshire Vikings | 3.2 | 5/22 | Derbyshire Falcons | Headingley, Leeds | ||||||
| David Payne | Gloucestershire | 3.3 | 5/24 | Middlesex | Old Deer Park, Richmond | ||||||
| Tom Smith | Gloucestershire | 4 | 5/39 | Essex Eagles | County Ground, Bristol |
