2020 t20 Blast


The 2020 Vitality Blast will be the 2020 season of the t20 Blast, a professional Twenty20 cricket league played in England and Wales. It will be the third season in which the domestic T20 competition, run by the England and Wales Cricket Board, has been branded as the Vitality Blast due to a new sponsorship deal.
It was scheduled to start on 28 May 2020, and finish on 5 September 2020. However, on 24 April 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the England and Wales Cricket Board confirmed that no professional cricket would be played in England before 1 July 2020. In late May 2020, the ECB looked at the scheduling of domestic cricket for the summer, with the t20 Blast likely to go ahead, including the traditional Final's Day at Edgbaston. The ECB also confirmed that no domestic cricket would be played before 1 August 2020. On 29 June 2020, the ECB confirmed that the county cricket season would begin on 1 August 2020, with the formats to be agreed in early July.
On 7 July 2020, the majority of counties voted to start the tournament on 27 August 2020, with Finals Day taking place at Edgbaston on 26 September 2020.