T20 Blast 2026: Squads, Schedule, Live Telecast, Teams & Venues

Cricket fans worldwide are gearing up for another thrilling season of the T20 Blast 2026, officially named the Vitality Blast. The tournament promises nearly two months of exhilarating T20 action, commencing on May 22 and concluding with the grand Finals Day on July 18, 2026.

This year, 18 county teams have meticulously assembled their squads, showcasing a blend of elite overseas talent and England’s most dynamic cricketers. All eyes will be on Somerset, who enter the competition as the reigning champions, having clinched the 2025 title. Their quest for back-to-back victories will undoubtedly be a major storyline.

Significant Format Changes for T20 Blast 2026

The T20 Blast 2026 introduces a notable evolution in its tournament structure, designed to intensify competition and offer fresh strategic challenges. Previously, the tournament featured two groups comprising nine teams each. This season, the format shifts to three distinct groups, with six teams allocated to each. This change means every team will now engage in 12 group-stage matches, ensuring a comprehensive and competitive preliminary round.

The qualification pathway to the knockout stages has also been refined. The top two teams from each of the three groups will automatically secure a spot in the quarter-finals. Additionally, the two best third-placed teams across all groups will also advance, making every match crucial for teams vying for a place in the last eight. The quarter-final clashes are scheduled for July 15, leading up to the highly anticipated Finals Day at Edgbaston on July 18.

T20 Blast 2026 Squads, Players List, and Teams

A star-studded line-up of international and domestic talent is set to light up the T20 Blast 2026. Here’s a detailed look at the confirmed squads across the North, Central, and South groups:

North Group Teams

Derbyshire Falcons

• Squad: Ben Aitchison, Martin Andersson, Amrit Basra, Yousaf Bin Naeem, Pat Brown, Harry Came, Zak Chappell, Anuj Dal, Aneurin Donald, AM Ghazanfar, Brooke Guest (WK), Joe Hawkins, Rory Haydon, Fynn Hudson-Prentice, Caleb Jewell, David Lloyd, Wayne Madsen, Matthew Montgomery, Harry Moore, Jack Morley, Samit Patel, Nick Potts, Luis Reece, Alex Thomson, Blair Tickner, Mitch Wagstaff, Ross Whiteley

Durham Cricket

• Squad: Colin Ackermann, Kasey Aldridge, Will Alexander, Archie Bailey, Jake Ball, David Bedingham, Jack Blatherwick, Scott Borthwick, Brydon Carse, Graham Clark, Sam Conners, Paul Coughlin, Bas de Leede, Brendan Doggett, George Drissell, Zak Foulkes, Emilio Gay, Shafiqullah Ghafari, Daniel Hogg, Mitch Killeen, Alex Lees, Stanley McAlindon, Ben McKinney, James Minto, Jimmy Neesham, Callum Parkinson, Matthew Potts, Ben Raine, Will Rhodes, Luke Robinson, Ollie Robinson (WK), Nathan Sowter, Ben Stokes, Neil Wagner, Mark Wood, Codi Yusuf

Lancashire Lightning

• Squad: James Anderson, Tom Aspinwall, Tom Bailey, George Balderson, Charlie Barnard, George Bell (WK), Jack Blatherwick, Josh Bohannon, Josh Boyden, Jos Buttler (WK), Rocky Flintoff, Kesh Fonseka, Chris Green, Luke Hands, Marcus Harris, Tom Hartley, Matty Hurst (WK), Keaton Jennings, Michael Jones, Liam Livingstone, Saqib Mahmood, Joe Moores (WK), Anderson Phillip, Phil Salt, Arav Shetty, Harry Singh, Mitch Stanley, Ollie Sutton, Ashton Turner, John Turner, Luke Wells, Will Williams, Luke Wood

Leicestershire Foxes

• Squad: Rehan Ahmed, Sol Budinger, Ben Cox (WK), Stephen Eskinazi, Alex Green, Ben Green, Peter Handscomb (WK), Lewis Hill (WK), Ian Holland, Josh Hull, Louis Kimber (WK), Ben Mike, Rishi Patel, Matt Salisbury, Tom Scriven, Shan Masood, Jonty Tattersall (WK), Josh Thomas, Liam Trevaskis, Logan van Beek, Roman Walker, Sam Wood, Chris Wright

Nottinghamshire Outlaws

• Squad: Muhammad Abbas, Farhan Ahmed, Joe Clarke (WK), Ben Duckett (WK), Tom Giles, Haseeb Hameed, Calvin Harrison, Byron Hatton-Lowe, James Hayes, Jack Haynes, Moises Henriques, Travis Holland, Brett Hutton, Lyndon James, Sammy King, Ishan Kishan (WK), Rob Lord, Freddie McCann, Conor McKerr, Ben Martindale, Matthew Montgomery, Francis Moore, Fergus O’Neill, Liam Patterson-White, Dillon Pennington, Joe Pocklington, Daniel Sams, Dane Schadendorf (WK), Sam Seecharan, Ben Slater, Olly Stone, Josh Tongue, Kyle Verreynne (WK)

Yorkshire Vikings

• Squad: Abdullah Shafique, Mayank Agarwal, Jawad Akhtar, Jonny Bairstow (WK), Finlay Bean (WK), Will Bennison, Dom Bess, Harry Brook, Jordan Buckingham, Jafer Chohan, Ben Cliff, Ben Coad, Harry Duke (WK), Matthew Firbank, Ruturaj Gaikwad, George Hill, Imam-ul-Haq, Noah Kelly (WK), Will Luxton, Adam Lyth, Dawid Malan, Matt Milnes, Dan Moriarty, Will O’Rourke, Adil Rashid, Matthew Revis, Joe Root, Ben Sears, Will Sutherland, Jonny Tattersall (WK), Jordan Thompson, Yash Vagadia, Alex Wade, James Wharton, Jack White

Central Group Teams

Glamorgan Cricket

• Squad: Shoaib Bashir, Tom Bevan, Eddie Byrom, Kiran Carlson, Chris Cooke (WK), Mason Crane, Dan Douthwaite, Asitha Fernando, Romano Franco, Andy Gorvin, James Harris, Henry Hurle (WK), Imad Wasim, Colin Ingram, Ben Kellaway (WK), Hayden Kerr, Matt Kuhnemann, Marnus Labuschagne, Ned Leonard, Jamie McIlroy, Ben Morris, Callum Nicholls, Sam Northeast, Tom Norton, Billy Root, Will Smale (WK), Asa Tribe, Zain ul Hassan, Timm van der Gugten

Gloucestershire Cricket

• Squad: Daz Ahmed, Zaman Akhter, Archie Bailey, Cameron Bancroft (WK), Tommy Boorman, James Bracey (WK), Ben Charlesworth, Luke Charlesworth, Marchant de Lange, Chris Dent, Kamran Dhariwal, Dylan Driscoll, Dom Goodman, Cameron Green, Miles Hammond, Alfie Johnson, Ed Middleton, Craig Miles, Todd Murphy, Robbie O’Donnell, David Payne, Luke Pearson-Taylor, Joe Phillips, Ollie Price, Tom Price, Aman Rao, Josh Shaw, D’Arcy Short, Ajeet Singh Dale, Tom Smith, Ahmed Syed, Jack Taylor, Matt Taylor, James Trodd, Graeme van Buuren

Northamptonshire Steelbacks

• Squad: Ashton Agar, George Bartlett, Ravi Bopara, Matthew Breetzke (WK), Justin Broad, Arush Buchake (WK), Yuzvendra Chahal, Harry Conway, Liam Guthrie, Calvin Harrison, Freddie Heldreich, Rob Keogh, Dom Leech, Tiaan Louw, Gus Miller, Krish Patel, Lloyd Pope, Luke Procter, Nirvan Ramesh, Kaif Ramzan, Lewis Reeder, Tim Robinson, James Sales, Ben Sanderson, George Scrimshaw, Aadi Sharma, Jordan Strydom, Stuart van der Merwe, Aryaman Varma, Ricardo Vasconcelos (WK), Raphy Weatherall, Ben Whitehouse, David Willey, Saif Zaib

Somerset Cricket

• Squad: Tom Abell, Kasey Aldridge, Jake Ball, Tom Banton (WK), Shoaib Bashir, Oscar Coleman, Josh Davey, Sean Dickson, Lewis Goldsworthy, Ben Green, Lewis Gregory, Matt Henry, Fin Hill, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Tom Lammonby, Jack Leach, Seb Linnitt, Riley Meredith, Bertie Michael, Alfie Ogborne, Craig Overton, Migael Pretorius, James Rew (WK), Thomas Rew (WK), Kian Roberts (WK), Will Smeed, James Theedom, Josh Thomas, Andy Umeed, Archie Vaughan, Zach Vukusic

Warwickshire Bears

• Squad: Moeen Ali, Taz Ali, Ethan Bamber, Ed Barnard, Jacob Bethell, Ben Blakemore, Michael Booth, Danny Briggs, Alex Davies (WK), Vishwa Fernando, George Garton, Levi Gekis, Nathan Gilchrist, Richard Gleeson, Sam Hain, Olly Hannon-Dalby, Hassan Ali, Vansh Jani, Tom Latham (WK), Jake Lintott, Zen Malik, Craig Miles, Dan Mousley, Corey Rocchiccioli, Chris Rushworth, Hamza Shaikh, Che Simmons, Kai Smith (WK), Adam Sylvester, Beau Webster, Chris Woakes, Theo Wylie, Rob Yates, Will Young

Worcestershire Rapids

• Squad: Ben Allison, Ethan Brookes, Yadvinder Singh, Toby Cox, Henry Cullen (WK), Harry Darley, Brett D’Oliveira, Jacob Duffy, Ben Dwarshuis, Rehaan Edavalath, Adam Finch, Bernie Foreman, Ben Gibbon, Henry Hawes, Tom Hinley, Jack Home, Adam Hose, Rob Jones, Kashif Ali, Khurram Shahzad, Dan Lategan, Jake Libby, Isaac Mohammed, Henry Nicholls, Callum Parkinson, Ed Pollock, Gareth Roderick (WK), Fateh Singh, Tom Taylor, Matthew Waite

South Group Teams

Essex Eagles

• Squad: Khaleel Ahmed, Charlie Allison, Mohammad Amir, Luc Benkenstein, Charlie Bennett, Doug Bracewell, Nick Browne, Curtis Campher, Sam Cook, Jordan Cox (WK), Matt Critchley, Robin Das, Dean Elgar, Simon Fernandes (WK), Daniel Gladwell, Simon Harmer, Mackenzie Jones, Michael Pepper (WK), Jamie Porter, Kasun Rajitha, Jamal Richards, Adam Rossington (WK), Shane Snater, Noah Thain, Shardul Thakur, Paul Walter, Tom Westley

Hampshire Hawks

• Squad: Kyle Abbott, Toby Albert (WK), Sonny Baker, Keith Barker, Dewald Brevis, Ben Brown (WK), Hilton Cartwright, Scott Currie, Liam Dawson, Joseph Eckland (WK), Jack Edwards, Bjorn Fortuin, James Fuller, Nick Gubbins, Brett Hampton, Benny Howell, Eddie Jack, Dom Kelly, Chris Lynn, Brandon McMullen, Ben Mayes, Reicha Middleton, Andrew Neal, Felix Organ, Ali Orr, Tom Prest, Lhuan-dre Pretorius (WK), Mark Stoneman, Tilak Varma, John Turner, James Vince, Washington Sundar, Joe Weatherley, Brad Wheal, Chris Wood

Kent Spitfires

• Squad: Wes Agar, Jake Ball, Daniel Bell-Drummond, Chris Benjamin (WK), Mikey Cohen, Ben Compton, Zak Crawley, Olly Curtiss, Ben Dawkins (WK), Jaydn Denly, Joe Denly, Keith Dudgeon, Joey Evison, Harry Finch, Corey Flintoff, George Garrett, Nathan Gilchrist, Kashif Ali, Fred Klaassen, Jack Leaning, Tawanda Muyeye, Alfie Ogborne, Marcus O’Riordan (WK), Matt Parkinson, Matt Quinn, Jamal Richards, Mo Rizvi, Tom Rogers, Ekansh Singh, Jas Singh, Grant Stewart

Middlesex Cricket

• Squad: Henry Brookes, Noah Cornwell, Joe Cracknell (WK), Blake Cullen, Josh de Caires, Leus du Plooy, Stephen Eskinazi, Jamie Feldman, Nathan Fernandes, Ben Geddes, Nathan Gilchrist, Zafar Gohar, Tom Helm, Ryan Higgins, Max Holden, Luke Hollman, Ishaan Kaushal, Josh Little, Seb Morgan, Dane Paterson, Sam Robson, Toby Roland-Jones, Aaryan Sawant, Naavya Sharma, Olly Stone, Kane Williamson

Surrey Cricket

• Squad: Ralphie Albert, Gus Atkinson, Nathan Barnwell, Josh Blake (WK), Rory Burns (WK), Rahul Chahar, Jordan Clark, Sam Curran, Tom Curran, Matt Dunn, Tommy Falham, Laurie Evans, Matt Fisher, Ben Foakes (WK), Alex French, Nikhil Gorantla, Luke Griffiths, Ollie Hunt, Will Jacks, Chris Jordan, Ari Karvelas, Tom Lawes, Dan Lawrence, Yousef Majid, Jamie Overton, Oliver Pascall (WK), Ryan Patel, Kurtis Patterson, Ollie Pope (WK), Kemar Roach, Jason Roy, Sai Kishore, Mitch Santner, Dom Sibley, Jamie Smith (WK), Nathan Smith, Cameron Steel, Seb Stuart-Reckling, Ollie Sykes, James Taylor, Adam Thomas, Reece Topley, Dan Worrall, Adam Zampa

Sussex Sharks

• Squad: Tom Alsop, Jofra Archer, Jack Carson, Tom Clark, James Coles, Henry Crocombe, Brad Currie, Bertie Foreman, Tom Haines, James Hayes, Troy Henry, Fynn Hudson-Prentice, Daniel Hughes, Sean Hunt, Danial Ibrahim, Ari Karvelas, Danny Lamb, Archie Lenham, Zach Lion-Cachet, Nathan McAndrew, Tymal Mills, Ollie Moore, Nantes Oosthuizen, Ollie Robinson, Henry Rogers, Gurinder Sandhu, Jayden Seales, John Simpson (WK), Charlie Tear, George Thomas, Jaydev Unadkat, Harrison Ward

T20 Blast 2026 Schedule Highlights

The T20 Blast 2026 season spans almost two months of intense cricket. The group-stage matches will offer daily dose of T20 entertainment as teams battle for crucial points. As mentioned earlier, the tournament kicks off on May 22, 2026.

T20 Blast 2026 Knockout Matches Schedule

• Quarter-finals: July 15, 2026
• Finals Day: July 18, 2026 (at Edgbaston)

T20 Blast 2026 Live Telecast and Streaming

For Indian cricket fans eager to follow every ball of the T20 Blast 2026, the live telecast will be available on the Sony Sports Network. Additionally, live streaming options are provided through the Fancode app and website, ensuring comprehensive coverage for viewers across the subcontinent.

Fans in other regions will also have access to the T20 Blast 2026 through various broadcasters and streaming platforms. Furthermore, select matches will be streamed free of charge on the official YouTube channels of several counties, including Surrey and Lancashire, in specific regions globally.

T20 Blast 2026 Venues

The T20 Blast 2026 will be hosted across 22 diverse and iconic cricket venues throughout England and Wales. These venues are renowned for their rich cricketing history and vibrant atmospheres, promising an unforgettable experience for players and spectators alike. Key venues include:

• Lord’s (London)
• Trent Bridge (Nottingham)
• Edgbaston (Birmingham)
• Headingley (Leeds)
• Kennington Oval (London)
• Sophia Gardens (Cardiff)
• Emirates Old Trafford (Manchester)

The T20 Blast 2026 is poised to deliver yet another enthralling chapter in county cricket, with its new format, star players, and passionate fan base setting the stage for a memorable tournament.

Rohan Kapoor

Rohan Kapoor is a cricket editor and sports content analyst based in New Delhi with over 6 years of experience covering IPL, T20 leagues, and international cricket. He specializes in match analysis, player statistics, and tactical breakdowns, bringing data-driven insights to modern cricket audiences across India.