2014 t20 Blast
The 2014 NatWest t20 Blast was the first season of the NatWest t20 Blast, the English Twenty20 cricket competition. The competition ran from 16 May 2014 until Finals Day at Edgbaston on 23 August, which was won by Birmingham Bears. The competition replaced the Friends Life t20 competition. With attendance figures over 700,000, it was the most attended season of T20 cricket in England since the format began in 2003.
Format
The 18 teams were divided into two groups of nine. In the style of a round-robin tournament, each team played six other teams in their group both home and away. The other two teams were faced just once. The top four teams from each group qualified for the knockout stage: a three-round single-elimination tournament. The winner of each group had a home match in the quarter-finals against the fourth team from the other group. The runners-up from each group played at home against the third placed team from the other group. The semi-finals were a free draw from all the qualified teams. Finals Day will be again be held at Edgbaston.Teams
North Division
Table
Results
Fixtures
May
June
July
South Division
Table
Results
Fixtures
May
June
July
Knockout stage
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
Statistics
Highest team totals
The following table lists the five highest team scores in the season.| Team | Total | Opponent | Ground |
| Lancashire Lightning | 229/4 | Worcestershire Rapids | New Road, Worcester |
| Sussex Sharks | 226/3 | Essex Eagles | County Ground |
| Lancashire Lightning | 225/7 | Derbyshire Falcons | Old Trafford, Manchester |
| Essex Eagles | 225/3 | Sussex Sharks | County Ground |
| Nottinghamshire Outlaws | 220/4 | Leicestershire Foxes | Grace Road, Leicester |
Most runs
The top five highest run scorers in the season are included in this table.| Player | Team | Runs | Inns | 100s | 50s | 4s | 6s | |||
| Jason Roy | Surrey | 677 | 15 | 48.35 | 157.07 | 81* | 0 | 9 | 77 | 27 |
| Luke Wright | Sussex Sharks | 601 | 14 | 50.08 | 162.43 | 153* | 2 | 3 | 56 | 28 |
| Jim Allenby | Glamorgan | 548 | 13 | 45.66 | 137.68 | 105 | 1 | 4 | 63 | 14 |
| Jacques Rudolph | Glamorgan | 543 | 13 | 60.33 | 123.40 | 75* | 0 | 6 | 61 | 2 |
| Tom Westley | Essex Eagles | 538 | 14 | 44.83 | 149.86 | 109* | 2 | 1 | 59 | 16 |
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 |
| Luke Wright | Sussex Sharks | 153* | 66 | 12 | 11 | Essex Eagles | County Ground |
| Daniel Christian | Middlesex Panthers | 129 | 57 | 12 | 10 | Kent Spitfires | St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury |
| Luke Wright | Sussex Sharks | 116* | 66 | 13 | 4 | Hampshire | The Rose Bowl, Southampton |
| Tom Westley | Essex Eagles | 109* | 58 | 12 | 5 | Sussex Sharks | County Ground |
| Jim Allenby | Glamorgan | 105 | 63 | 14 | 3 | Middlesex Panthers | Old Deer Park, Richmond |
Most wickets
The following table contains the five leading wicket-takers of the season.| Player | Team | ||||||
| Jeetan Patel | Birmingham Bears | 25 | 15 | 12.96 | 12.7 | 6.11 | 4/19 |
| Dirk Nannes | Somerset | 24 | 13 | 15.54 | 11.6 | 8.02 | 5/31 |
| Michael Hogan | Glamorgan | 21 | 13 | 19.52 | 14.5 | 8.03 | 3/30 |
| Danny Briggs | Hampshire | 21 | 15 | 20.71 | 16.8 | 7.37 | 4/28 |
| Kabir Ali | Lancashire Lightning | 20 | 11 | 14.95 | 11.7 | 7.66 | 3/19 |
Best bowling figures
This table lists the top five players with the best bowling figures in the season.| Player | Team | Overs | Figures | Opponent | Ground |
| Anthony Ireland | Leicestershire Foxes | 3.5 | 5/22 | Derbyshire Falcons | Queen's Park, Chesterfield |
| Jesse Ryder | Essex Eagles | 3.5 | 5/27 | Kent Spitfires | Castle Park Cricket Ground, Colchester |
| Daryl Mitchell | Worcestershire Rapids | 4.0 | 5/28 | Northamptonshire Steelbacks | County Ground, Northampton |
| Dirk Nannes | Somerset | 3.5 | 5/31 | Sussex Sharks | Arundel Castle, Arundel |
| Richard Jones | Leicestershire Foxes | 4.0 | 5/34 | Lancashire Lightning | Old Trafford, Manchester |