All you need about The T20 Blast Finals
All you need about The T20 Blast Finals. This month, the T20 Blast for 2022 will come to an end, and a new winner will be chosen. In 2003, England was the first country to start a professional Twenty-Over tournament at home. Finals Day is still the most important day of the season for county teams, even though it has lost some of its global prestige to the Indian Premier League and the Australia Big Bash League. It also has to compete with the newly created Hundred for space in the English summer.
Here, we’ll talk about how the tournament works, look at the past winners, and try to guess who might win this time.
Format and finals of T20 Blast
During the round-robin phase of the T20 Blast, England’s 18 first-class county teams, which also play in the four-day County Championship and the 50-over Royal London Cup, are split into two groups of nine.
North Group: Birmingham Bears, Derbyshire Falcons, Durham, Lancashire Lightning, Leicestershire Foxes, Northants Steelbacks, Notts Outlaws, Worcestershire Rapids, and Yorkshire Vikings.
South Group: Essex Eagles, Glamorgan, Gloucestershire, Hampshire Hawks, Kent Spitfires, Middlesex, Somerset, Surrey, and Sussex Sharks.
In the group stage, each team plays 14 games. A win gives two points, a tie or no result gives one point, and a loss gives no points. The top four in each section move on to the quarterfinals, which this year will be held between July 6 and 9. The top two teams in the North and South Groups get to play at home, and the winner of each quarterfinal makes it to Finals Day. The showpiece event is now held at Edgbaston in Birmingham, where both the semifinals and the final are played on the same day. Saturday, July 16, 2022, will be the day of the T20 Blast Finals.
Who has made it to the quarterfinals of the 2022 T20 Blast?
Last year, Kent won at Edgbaston by beating Somerset by 25 runs in the final. But this time, the Spitfires were so bad that they came in last in the South Group.
Surrey came out on top of the standings because they won 10 of their 14 games. This was the best record by any team in the competition, but they have lost all three of their last four games.
Birmingham won the North Group by coming in ahead of Lancashire and Derbyshire in terms of net run rate, even though all three teams had the same number of points (18). The Lightning is the other home team that made it to the last four.
Even though they lost to Leicestershire by 60 runs in what looked like it would be a shootout of a final game on Sunday, Yorkshire won the four northern qualifiers. However, the Cricket Discipline Committee (CDC) of the ECB took two points away from the Foxes because they broke the rules on the field.
In their second-to-last group game, they beat the Northants Steelbacks and committed the crimes. Afghanistan seamer Naveen ul-Haq was called out for two waist-high full tosses, and New Zealand all-rounder Jimmy Neesham was told off by Aaron Lilley. Behind Surrey in the South Group, Somerset, Essex, and Hampshire cut.
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