# 2015 T20 Blast

The 2015 NatWest T20 Blast was the thirteenth edition of the 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.

## Format

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. Finals Day will be again be held at Edgbaston.

## North Division
### Table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Ded | Pts | NRR |
| 1 | Birmingham Bears | 14 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0.200 |
| 2 | Worcestershire Rapids | 14 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 0.682 |
| 3 | Northamptonshire Steelbacks | 14 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 0.115 |
| 4 | Lancashire Lightning | 14 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 0.469 |
| 5 | Nottinghamshire Outlaws | 14 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 0.018 |
| 6 | Durham Jets | 14 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | −0.149 |
| 7 | Leicestershire Foxes | 14 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 11 | −0.304 |
| 8 | Yorkshire Vikings | 14 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | −0.324 |
| 9 | Derbyshire Falcons | 14 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | −0.662 |

### Results

| | Birmingham Bears | Derbyshire Falcons | Durham Jets | Lancashire Lightning | Leicestershire Foxes | Northamptonshire Steelbacks | Nottinghamshire Outlaws | Worcestershire Rapids | Yorkshire Vikings |
| Birmingham Bears | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Birmingham Bears 60 runs | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Lancashire Lightning 8 runs | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Leicestershire Foxes 7 wickets | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Birmingham Bears 1 run | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Birmingham Bears 7 wickets | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Birmingham Bears 18 runs | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Birmingham Bears 6 wickets |
| Derbyshire Falcons | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Durham Jets 5 runs | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Derbyshire Falcons 5 wickets | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Derbyshire Falcons 17 runs | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Northamptonshire 3 runs (D/L) | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Derbyshire Falcons 34 runs | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Worcestershire Rapids 4 wickets | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Derbyshire Falcons 4 wickets |
| Durham Jets | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Birmingham Bears 7 wickets | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Lancashire Lightning 6 wickets | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Durham Jets 38 runs | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Durham Jets 41 runs (D/L) | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Nottinghamshire Outlaws 42 runs | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Worcestershire Rapids 3 runs | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Durham Jets 6 runs |
| Lancashire Lightning | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Birmingham Bears 1 run | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Lancashire Lightning 67 runs | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Durham Jets 16 runs | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Lancashire Lightning 5 wickets (D/L) | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Nottinghamshire Outlaws 3 wickets | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Worcestershire Rapids 2 wickets | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Lancashire Lightning 29 runs |
| Leicestershire Foxes | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Birmingham Bears 8 runs | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Leicestershire Foxes 7 wickets | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Leicestershire Foxes 8 wickets | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Lancashire Lightning 40 runs | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | | style="background:#FFDEAD; text-align: center" | Abandoned No result | style="background:#FFDEAD; text-align: center" | Abandoned No result | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | | style="background:#DDFFDD; text-align: center" | Match tied |
| Northamptonshire Steelbacks | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Birmingham Bears 5 wickets | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Northamptonshire Steelbacks 6 wickets | style="background:#FFDEAD; text-align: center" | Abandoned No result | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Northamptonshire Steelbacks 4 runs | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Northamptonshire Steelbacks 9 wickets (D/L) | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Worcestershire Rapids 14 runs | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Northamptonshire Steelbacks 6 wickets |
| Nottinghamshire Outlaws | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Nottinghamshire Outlaws 8 wickets (D/L) | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Nottinghamshire Outlaws 2 runs | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Nottinghamshire Outlaws 15 runs | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Leicestershire Foxes 6 wickets | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Nottinghamshire Outlaws 7 wickets | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Worcestershire Rapids 20 runs | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Yorkshire Vikings 6 wickets |
| Worcestershire Rapids | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Birmingham Bears 5 wickets | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Worcestershire Rapids 8 wickets | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Worcestershire Rapids 5 wickets | style="background:#FFDEAD; text-align: center" | Abandoned No result | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Worcestershire Rapids 6 wickets | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Northamptonshire Steelbacks 2 runs | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Nottinghamshire Outlaws 11 runs | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | |
| Yorkshire Vikings | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Yorkshire Vikings 8 wickets | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Yorkshire Vikings 7 wickets | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Yorkshire Vikings 5 wickets | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Lancashire Lightning 4 wickets | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Northamptonshire Steelbacks 8 wickets (D/L) | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Yorkshire Vikings 40 runs | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Worcestershire Rapids 74 runs | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | |
| style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Home team win | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Away team win | style="background:#DDFFDD; text-align: center" | Match tied | style="background:#FFDEAD; text-align: center" | Match abandoned |

### Fixtures

All times are BST.

#### July
## South Division
### Table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Ded | Pts | NRR |
| 1 | Kent Spitfires | 14 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 0.166 |
| 2 | Sussex Sharks | 14 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 0.206 |
| 3 | Hampshire | 14 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | −0.120 |
| 4 | Essex Eagles | 14 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 0.208 |
| 5 | Gloucestershire | 14 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0.354 |
| 6 | Glamorgan | 14 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | −0.522 |
| 7 | Surrey | 14 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 13 | −0.145 |
| 8 | Somerset | 14 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 10 | −0.184 |
| 9 | Middlesex | 14 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0.030 |

### Results

| | Essex Eagles | Glamorgan | Gloucestershire | Hampshire | Kent Spitfires | Middlesex | Somerset | Surrey | Sussex Sharks |
| Essex Eagles | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Essex Eagles 16 runs | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Essex Eagles 18 runs | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Essex Eagles 78 runs | style="background:#FFDEAD; text-align: center" | Abandoned No result | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Essex Eagles 4 wickets | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Somerset 3 wickets | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Surrey 44 runs | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | |
| Glamorgan | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Essex Eagles 5 wickets | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Gloucestershire 8 wickets | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Hampshire 21 runs | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Glamorgan 4 runs | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Glamorgan 2 runs (D/L) | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Surrey 19 runs | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Sussex Sharks 10 wickets |
| Gloucestershire | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Gloucestershire 34 runs | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Glamorgan 19 runs | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Gloucestershire 5 wickets | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Kent Spitfires 3 wickets | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Gloucestershire 7 wickets | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Somerset 5 wickets | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Sussex Sharks 3 wickets |
| Hampshire | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Hampshire 17 runs | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Glamorgan 23 runs | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Kent Spitfires 5 wickets | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Hampshire 19 runs | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Hampshire 6 runs | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Hampshire 29 runs | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Sussex Sharks 7 wickets |
| Kent Spitfires | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Kent Spitfires 6 wickets | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Glamorgan 1 run | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Gloucestershire 9 wickets | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Hampshire 6 wickets | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Kent Spitfires 22 runs | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Kent Spitfires 23 runs | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Kent Spitfires 7 runs |
| Middlesex | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Middlesex 6 wickets | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Gloucestershire 43 runs | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Hampshire 21 runs | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Middlesex 115 runs | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Somerset 9 wickets | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Middlesex 43 runs | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Sussex Sharks 7 wickets |
| Somerset | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Glamorgan 3 runs | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Gloucestershire 8 wickets | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Somerset 8 wickets | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Kent Spitfires 3 runs | style="background:#FFDEAD; text-align: center" | Abandoned No result | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | | style="background:#FFDEAD; text-align: center" | Abandoned No result | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Sussex Sharks 5 runs |
| Surrey | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Essex Eagles 6 wickets | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Glamorgan 25 runs | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Surrey 4 wickets | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Kent Spitfires 54 runs | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Surrey 8 wickets | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Surrey 38 runs | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | | style="background:#FFDEAD; text-align: center" | Abandoned No result |
| Sussex Sharks | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Essex Eagles 7 wickets | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Sussex Sharks 8 wickets | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Sussex Sharks 6 runs | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Hampshire 4 runs | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Kent Spitfires 7 wickets | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Middlesex 42 runs | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | | style="background:#FFDEAD; text-align: center" | Abandoned No result | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | |
| style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Home team win | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Away team win | style="background:#DDFFDD; text-align: center" | Match tied | style="background:#FFDEAD; text-align: center" | Match abandoned |

### Fixtures

All times are BST.

#### July
## Knockout stage

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| Sussex Sharks (H) | 165/7 (20 ov) | | | | |
| Northamptonshire Steelbacks | 166/6 (16 ov) | | | | |
| Northamptonshire Steelbacks | 166/6 (16 ov) | Northamptonshire Steelbacks | 135/5 (18 ov) | | |
| | | Birmingham Bears | 131/6 (20 ov) | | |
| Birmingham Bears (H) | 189/5 (20 ov) | Birmingham Bears | 131/6 (20 ov) | | |
| Essex Eagles | 165/6 (20 ov) | | | | |
| Essex Eagles | 165/6 (20 ov) | | | Lancashire Lightning | 166/7 (20.0 ov) |
| | | | | Northamptonshire Steelbacks | 153/6 (20.0 ov) |
| Worcestershire Rapids (H) | 58/2 (8.1 ov) | | | | | Northamptonshire Steelbacks | 153/6 (20.0 ov) |
| Hampshire (D/L) | 196/4 (20 ov) | | | | |
| Hampshire (D/L) | 196/4 (20 ov) | Hampshire | 115 (19.5 ov) | | |
| | | Lancashire Lightning | 119/4 (18.5 ov) | | |
| Kent Spitfires (H) | 142 (20 ov) | Lancashire Lightning | 119/4 (18.5 ov) | | |
| Lancashire Lightning | 142/6 (20 ov) | | | | |

### Final
## Personnel

| Team | Head Coach | Captain | Overseas player(s) |
| Birmingham Bears | Dougie Brown | Varun Chopra | Brendon McCullum Jeetan Patel |
| Derbyshire Falcons | Graeme Welch | Wayne Madsen | Hashim Amla Tillakaratne Dilshan Nathan Rimmington |
| Durham Jets | Jon Lewis | Mark Stoneman | John Hastings |
| Essex Eagles | Paul Grayson | Ryan ten Doeschate | Jesse Ryder Shaun Tait |
| Glamorgan | Toby Radford | Jacques Rudolph | Jacques Rudolph Wayne Parnell |
| Gloucestershire | Richard Dawson | Michael Klinger | Michael Klinger Peter Handscomb |
| Hampshire | Dale Benkenstein | James Vince | Yasir Arafat Jackson Bird |
| Kent Spitfires | Jimmy Adams | Rob Key | |
| Lancashire Lightning | Ashley Giles | Tom Smith | James Faulkner Peter Siddle |
| Leicestershire Foxes | Andrew McDonald | Mark Cosgrove | Grant Elliott Clint McKay Mark Cosgrove Umar Akmal |
| Middlesex | Richard Scott | Eoin Morgan | Adam Voges Joe Burns |
| Northamptonshire Steelbacks | David Ripley | Alex Wakely | Shahid Afridi Rory Kleinveldt |
| Nottinghamshire Outlaws | Mick Newell | James Taylor | Darren Sammy Vernon Philander Ben Hilfenhaus |
| Somerset | Matthew Maynard | Alfonso Thomas | Chris Gayle Abdur Rehman Luke Ronchi Sohail Tanvir Alfonso Thomas |
| Surrey | Graham Ford | Gareth Batty | Kumar Sangakkara Moises Henriques Wahab Riaz |
| Sussex Sharks | Mark Robinson | Luke Wright | Steve Magoffin Mahela Jayawardene George Bailey |
| Worcestershire Rapids | Steve Rhodes | Daryl Mitchell | Colin Munro Saeed Ajmal Sachithra Senanayake |
| Yorkshire Vikings | Jason Gillespie | Andrew Gale | Aaron Finch Glenn Maxwell Cheteshwar Pujara |

## Statistics
### Highest team totals

The following table lists the five highest team scores in the season.
| Team | Total | Opponent | Ground |
| 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 |

### Most runs

The top five highest run scorers (total runs) in the season are included in this table.
| Player | Team | Runs | Inns | Avg | S/R | HS | 100s | 50s | 4s | 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 |

### Highest scores

This table contains the top five highest scores of the season made by a batsman in a single innings.
| Player | Team | Score | Balls | 4s | 6s | Opponent | 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 |

### Most wickets

The following table contains the five leading wicket-takers of the season.
| Player | Team | Wkts | Inns | Ave | S/R | Econ | BBI |
| 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 |

### Best bowling figures

This table lists the top five players with the best bowling figures.
| Player | Team | Overs | Figures | Opponent | 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 |