{"id":132752,"date":"2025-09-12T18:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T18:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/132752\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T18:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T18:02:08","slug":"england-and-wales-cricket-board-ecb-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/132752\/","title":{"rendered":"England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The finals of both the men’s and women’s Vitality Blast will take place on consecutive days in July next season.<\/p>\n

Cricket fans can already start planning their 2026 summer with confirmation of the dates for next season\u2019s men\u2019s and women\u2019s Vitality Blast Finals Days.<\/p>\n

Following the success of the first-ever Vitality Blast Women\u2019s Finals Day earlier this season, the Kia Oval will again stage the showpiece event on Friday 17 July 2026. A day later EdgBLASTon will then host its 14th successive men\u2019s Vitality Blast Men\u2019s Final Day, on Saturday 18 July 2026.<\/p>\n

The men\u2019s and women\u2019s Vitality Blast Finals Days are the unmissable events of the county calendar with all-action drama of three knockout matches to crown the champions.<\/p>\n

EdgBLASTon\u2019s famed atmosphere as the home of Vitality Blast Men\u2019s Finals Day is entrenched with sell-out crowds packing the stadium each year, while a record attendance for a women\u2019s county T20 witnessed Surrey win the inaugural women\u2019s Vitality Blast Finals Day against Bears back in July.<\/p>\n

Fans looking to attend the 2026 Vitality Blast Women\u2019s Finals Day can register their interest here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And fans can now enter the ticket ballot for the 2026 Vitality Blast Men\u2019s Finals Day here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To \u2018beat the ballot\u2019 fans can get Priority Bears Club Membership, which is available now for \u00a335, while attendees at this year\u2019s Vitality Blast Men\u2019s Finals Day will have priority access to re-buy for next season\u2019s event following this weekend\u2019s final.<\/p>\n

VIP Experiences for Vitality Blast men\u2019s Finals Day will go on sale from 10am on Monday 15 September with details available at www.edgbaston.com.<\/p>\n

Both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s Vitality Blast competitions will have a new look in 2026, highlighted by men\u2019s Vitality Blast Finals Day moving to July.<\/p>\n

Both competitions will be played in a block of 12 group-stage matches before the quarter-finals (men\u2019s only) and Finals Days immediately follow.<\/p>\n

The men\u2019s competition returns to three groups of six counties, which will provide a greater focus on the historic local rivalries that make the Vitality Blast unlike any other T20 competition in the world.<\/p>\n

Yorkshire will join Tier One of the women\u2019s Vitality Blast to create a nine-team competition next season with Finals Day to be expanded to include four teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The finals of both the men’s and women’s Vitality Blast will take place on consecutive days in July…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,1602,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-132752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-text","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}