| 2019 Vitality Blast | |
| Administrator: | England and Wales Cricket Board |
| Cricket Format: | Twenty20 |
| Tournament Format: | Group stage and knockout |
| Champions: | Essex Eagles |
| Count: | 1 |
| Participants: | 18 |
| Matches: | 133 |
| Most Runs: | Babar Azam (578) |
| Most Wickets: | Ravi Rampaul (23) |
| Previous Year: | 2018 |
| Previous Tournament: | 2018 T20 Blast |
| Next Year: | 2020 |
| Next Tournament: | 2020 T20 Blast |
| Website: | Vitality Blast |
The 2019 Vitality Blast was the seventeenth edition of the T20 Blast currently known as the Vitality Blast, a professional Twenty20 cricket league that was played in England and Wales which was run by the ECB, has been branded as the Vitality Blast due to a new sponsorship deal.[1] The league consisted of the 18 first-class county teams divided into two divisions of nine teams each with fixtures played, slightly later than usual, between July and September.[2] Finals Day took place at Edgbaston Cricket Ground in Birmingham on 21 September 2019. Worcestershire Rapids were the defending champions.[3]
On 7 August 2019, in the match between the Leicestershire Foxes and the Birmingham Bears, Leicestershire's Colin Ackermann took seven wickets for eighteen runs.[4] These were the best bowling figures in a Twenty20 cricket match.[5]
The top four teams from each division will qualify for the knockout stage.
All times are in British Summer Time
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| width=125 | Player | width=125 | Team | width=60 | Matches | width=60 | Innings | width=60 | Runs | width=60 | Average | width=60 | width=60 | 100s | width=60 | 50s | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D'Arcy Short | Durham | 12 | 12 | 483 | 43.90 | 77 | 0 | 4 | |||||||||
| Sam Hain | Birmingham Bears | 12 | 12 | 459 | 41.72 | 85 | 0 | 3 | |||||||||
| Tom Kohler-Cadmore | Yorkshire Vikings | 10 | 10 | 435 | 62.14 | 96 | 0 | 5 | |||||||||
| Billy Godleman | Derbyshire Falcons | 12 | 12 | 419 | 46.55 | 92 | 0 | 4 | |||||||||
| Wayne Madsen | Derbyshire Falcons | 12 | 12 | 400 | 50.00 | 69 | 0 | 4 |
| width=125 | Players | width=125 | Team | width=60 | Matches | width=60 | Overs | width=60 | Wickets | width=60 | Average | width=60 | BBI | width=60 | 4w | width=60 | 5w |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Parkinson | Lancashire Lightning | 11 | 37.4 | 21 | 13.38 | 4/30 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| Ravi Rampaul | Derbyshire Falcons | 12 | 46.0 | 21 | 14.71 | 3/17 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Harry Gurney | Nottinghamshire Outlaws | 10 | 36.0 | 18 | 18.05 | 5/30 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| Matthew Potts | Durham | 12 | 39.5 | 17 | 19.52 | 3/22 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Nathan Rimmington | Durham | 12 | 43.5 | 16 | 19.06 | 3/15 | 0 | 0 |
| width=150 | Player | width=125 | Team | width=60 | Matches | width=60 | Innings | width=60 | Runs | width=60 | Average | width=60 | width=60 | 100s | width=60 | 50s | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Babar Azam | Somerset | 13 | 13 | 578 | 52.54 | 102 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||
| Tom Banton | Somerset | 13 | 13 | 549 | 42.23 | 100 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||
| Dawid Malan | Middlesex | 13 | 13 | 488 | 44.36 | 117 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
| James Vince | Hampshire | 13 | 12 | 407 | 40.70 | 87 | 0 | 4 | |||||||||
| Aaron Finch | Surrey | 13 | 13 | 398 | 36.18 | 102 | 1 | 1 |
| width=125 | Players | width=125 | Team | width=60 | Matches | width=60 | Overs | width=60 | Wickets | width=60 | Average | width=60 | BBI | width=60 | 4w | width=60 | 5w |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kyle Abbott | Hampshire | 13 | 43.3 | 20 | 17.80 | 3/15 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Toby Roland-Jones | Middlesex | 13 | 41.1 | 19 | 18.57 | 5/21 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Imran Tahir | Surrey | 13 | 47.0 | 19 | 20.26 | 4/25 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| Steven Finn | Middlesex | 13 | 46.0 | 19 | 22.36 | 5/16 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| Hardus Viljoen | Kent Spitfires | 12 | 45.2 | 18 | 19.72 | 3/15 | 0 | 0 |
