List of English Twenty20 cricket champions explained

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.

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

Year!scope="col" rowspan="2"
WinnerRunners-upVenuePlayer (club)RunsPlayer (club)WicketsNotes
Leading run-scorerLeading wicket-taker
2003SurreyWarwickshireTrent Bridge, Nottinghamshire (Leicestershire) 301 (Surrey) 16[12] [13]
2004LeicestershireSurreyEdgbaston, Warwickshire (Leicestershire) 356 (Surrey) 20[14] [15]
2005SomersetLancashireThe Oval, London (Middlesex) 410 (Surrey) 17[16] [17]
2006LeicestershireNottinghamshireTrent Bridge, Nottinghamshire (Somerset) 464 (Surrey) 21[18] [19]
2007KentGloucestershireEdgbaston, Warwickshire (Sussex) 346 (Surrey),
(Kent) 		17[20] [21]
2008MiddlesexKentThe Rose Bowl, Hampshire (Kent) 451 (Kent) 23[22] [23]
2009SussexSomersetEdgbaston, Warwickshire (Warwickshire) 525 (Somerset) 18[24] [25]
2010HampshireSomersetThe Rose Bowl, Hampshire (Hampshire) 668 (Somerset) 33[26] [27]
2011LeicestershireSomersetEdgbaston, Warwickshire (Leicestershire) 584 (Essex) 26[28] [29]
2012HampshireYorkshireSophia Gardens, Glamorgan (Worcestershire) 402 (Yorkshire) 21[30] [31]
2013NorthamptonshireSurreyEdgbaston, Warwickshire (Somerset) 517 (Northamptonshire) 27[32] [33]
2014Birmingham BearsLancashire (Surrey) 677 (Birmingham Bears) 25[34] [35]
2015LancashireNorthamptonshire (Hampshire) 710 (Lancashire) 25[36] [37]
2016NorthamptonshireDurham (Gloucestershire) 548 (Gloucestershire) 24[38] [39]
2017NottinghamshireWarwickshire (Kent) 567 (Leicestershire) 23[40] [41]
2018WorcestershireSussex (Sussex) 614 (Worcestershire) 31
2019EssexWorcestershire (Somerset) 578 (Derbyshire) 23
2020NottinghamshireSurrey (Kent) 423 (Nottinghamshire) 19
2021KentSomerset (Leicestershire) 531 Naveen-ul-Haq (Leicestershire) 26
2022HampshireLancashire (Hampshire) 678 (Lancashire) 25
2023SomersetEssex (Hampshire) 670 (Somerset) 31
2024

Performance by county (Men's)

TitlesClubTitle-winning seasons
Leicestershire2004, 2006, 2011
Hampshire2010, 2012, 2022
Somerset2005, 2023
Kent2007, 2021
Northamptonshire2013, 2016
Nottinghamshire2017, 2020
Essex2019
Lancashire2015
Middlesex2008
Surrey2003
Sussex2009
Birmingham Bears2014
2018

Women's champions

See main article: article, Women's Cricket Super League and Charlotte Edwards Cup.

Year!scope="col" rowspan="2"
WinnerRunners-upVenuePlayer (club)RunsPlayer (club)WicketsNotes
Leading run-scorerLeading wicket-taker
2016Western StormCounty Cricket Ground, Chelmsford (Western Storm) 289 (Western Storm) 11[42] [43]
2017Southern VipersCounty Cricket Ground, Hove (Western Storm) 261 (Surrey Stars) 12[44] [45]
2018Loughborough LightningCounty Cricket Ground, Hove (Western Storm) 421 (Loughborough Lightning) 17
2019Southern VipersCounty Cricket Ground, Hove (Southern Vipers) 466 (Western Storm) 19
2021Northern DiamondsRose Bowl, Southampton (Central Sparks) 276 (South East Stars) 14

Performance by team (Women's)

TitlesClubTitle-winning seasons
Western Storm2017, 2019
Southern Vipers2016
Surrey Stars2018

References

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Notes and References

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