T20 Blast Match Predictions and Betting Tips

The Vitality T20 Blast was the first domestic T20 competition in England and Wales, and has a lot of fans as a result. It is also pretty unique because it is played in stages over a fairly long period of time. It also features each county team and features almost 18 matches every weekend!

While the Indian Premier League has become the world's top Twenty20 tournament, many people enjoy watching, and betting on, matches in the T20 Blast. We have all the match info, tips and predictions for you on this page.

Our OCBscores experts provide a match prediction for each game in the event. Read everything you need to know about our T20 Blast betting tips and more, right here! 

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T20 Blast Schedule

The T20 Blast's group stage normally starts in July, with many matches clustered together in a short space of time. There is then a break of a few weeks until the quarterfinals are held. 

Finals Day takes place at the end of the English summer, with the late-September setting often meaning that weather has a decisive impact. The need to fit in three T20 matches in a single day means that there is a lot of action for fans to enjoy, but it is a very long day of sport. 

Edgbaston, the home of the Birmingham Bears, hosts Finals Day due to its central location. 

What Is The Vitality T20 Blast?

The T20 Blast was created in 2003, with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) opting to create a shorter form of the game that might have more appeal to a more diverse audience and also to broadcasters. 

The T20 format was an immediate hit, and countries worldwide scrambled to assemble their own version of the event, with the IPL becoming a sporting juggernaut. 

However, the T20 Blast continues to hold its own despite the riches on offer around the world in other events and the fact its fixtures are played over a spread-out period of time. 

Each English summer, the T20 Blast gets underway in the middle of the summer, with the group stage played over a short period. There are 18 teams, with each of the English and Welsh traditional counties having their own T20 team that competes each year in the Blast. 

The event's knockout games - a round of quarter-finals followed by Finals Day, where both semi-finals and the final take place - are not held until right at the end of the summer. 

T20 Blast Format

The T20 Blast is one of the largest domestic T20 competitions, with 18 teams participating. For the group stage, the teams are split into two sections—the North Group and the South Group. 

Each of the teams plays 14 matches during the group stage. They play six of the other sides in their group home and away, while the other two teams are played just once each. The top two teams from each group will then go on to the quarter-finals, with group winners playing at home. After that, all the winners of the four quarter-finals go on to compete in the T20 Blast's Finals Day. 

Vitality T20 Blast Teams For 2024

Here are the teams that made up the 2024 edition of the tournament:

North Group 

Teams in the North Group of the T20 Blast were as follows:

South Group 

Teams in the South Group of the T20 Blast were as follows:

Follow Our T20 Blast Betting Tips 

OCBscores experts put together T20 Blast betting tips throughout the annual UK competition. A range of top factors are taken into account by the experts, including the following criteria:  

Injuries 

Squad availability due to fitness and international call-ups play a big role in the Blast. We check the latest team news and consider it in our T20 Blast betting tips.  

Weather conditions 

The English summer is notoriously unpredictable. OCBscores experts putting together a T20 Blast match prediction check the forecast to see its likely impact. 

Venue 

Some cricket grounds used in the competition favour bigger scores than others, while spinners are more dangerous on certain pitches. Therefore, the venue is a big thing to consider.  

Pitch conditions 

Sometimes, used pitches are among those utilised within the tournament. The condition of the pitch is something always taken into account in our T20 Blast predictions.  

Player and Team stats 

With a longer group stage than other domestic T20 leagues, OCBscores experts have a lot of data to assess. Information such as which players have been in the richest seam of form is looked into when producing a T20 Blast today match prediction here. 

Head-to-head record 

The T20 Blast has been running for over twenty years, and the H2H record for the competition is very detailed. Some sides are known for regularly beating others. 

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