T20 Blast 2026: Full Squads, New Format, Schedule, and Streaming Details

Introduction to Vitality Blast 2026

The T20 Blast 2026 is officially set to return to the English summer, promising high-octane cricket from May 22 to July 18, 2026. As one of the most historical and entertaining domestic T20 tournaments in the world, the upcoming edition brings significant structural changes, stellar international signings, and a hyper-competitive landscape. Somerset will enter the tournament as the defending champions after their spectacular title-winning run in 2025.

The Revolutionary New Tournament Format

In a major departure from previous editions, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has overhauled the tournament’s structure. Previously, the 18 county teams were split into two large groups of nine. For the 2026 season, the teams have been divided into three groups of six teams each: the North Group, the Central Group, and the South Group.

Under this revised format, each team will play a total of 12 group-stage matches (facing group rivals home and away). The qualification rules have also adjusted to fit this structure: the top two teams from each of the three groups will gain direct entry into the quarter-finals. They will be joined by the two best third-placed teams across all three groups to complete the eight-team knockout bracket.

The highly anticipated quarter-finals are scheduled for July 15, 2026, while the historic Finals Day will once again take place at Edgbaston on July 18, 2026, crowning the ultimate T20 champions of England and Wales.

T20 Blast 2026 Group Breakdown & Squads

North Group Teams

The North Group features a fiercely competitive lineup of counties, packed with international superstars and domestic heavyweights. Notable inclusions are India’s Ishan Kishan for Nottinghamshire, and the star duo of Ruturaj Gaikwad and Mayank Agarwal bolstering Yorkshire.

• Derbyshire: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

The Central Group houses defending champions Somerset, alongside heavy-duty squads like Warwickshire and Gloucestershire. This group boasts incredible spin depth and elite all-rounders, including Yuzvendra Chahal turning out for Northamptonshire.

• Glamorgan: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

The South Group features some of the star-studdest rosters in English domestic cricket. Surrey’s lineup reads like an international squad, supplemented by IPL stars and world-class spinners. Hampshire features key Indian talents like Washington Sundar and Tilak Varma, while Middlesex boasts the veteran expertise of Kane Williamson.

• Essex: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 Iconic Venues

Matches during the T20 Blast 2026 will be hosted across 22 stunning cricketing venues across England and Wales. The tournament will visit some of the world’s most historic and atmospheric stadiums, including:

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

How to Watch T20 Blast 2026: Live Telecast and Streaming Details

Cricket enthusiasts in India can catch the live action of the T20 Blast 2026 on television via the Sony Sports Network. For those who prefer digital viewing, the entire tournament will be live-streamed on the FanCode app and website.

Additionally, select matches will be streamed free of charge on the official YouTube channels of individual counties, such as Surrey and Lancashire, allowing global audiences in selected regions to witness top-tier T20 cricket without any subscription hurdles.

Ronav Desai