2014 NatWest t20 Blast

2014 NatWest t20 Blast
Dates 16 May 2014 – 23 August 2014
Administrator(s) England and Wales Cricket Board
Cricket format Twenty20
Tournament format(s) Group stage and knockout
Champions Birmingham Bears (1st title)
Participants 18
Matches played 133
Official website NatWest 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.

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 runner-ups 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.[1] Finals Day will be again be held at Edgbaston.[2]

Teams

Team Location Division Home ground Coach Captain Overseas player(s)
Birmingham Bears Birmingham North Edgbaston Scotland Dougie Brown England Jim Troughton Pakistan Shoaib Malik
New Zealand Jeetan Patel
Derbyshire Falcons Derby North County Ground England Graeme Welch South Africa Wayne Madsen West Indies Cricket Board Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Australia Marcus North
Durham Jets Chester-le-Street North Riverside Ground England Jon Lewis England Mark Stoneman Australia John Hastings
Essex Eagles Chelmsford South County Ground England Paul Grayson Netherlands Ryan ten Doeschate New Zealand Jesse Ryder
Glamorgan Cardiff South Sophia Gardens Wales Toby Radford Australia Jim Allenby South Africa Jacques Rudolph
West Indies Cricket Board Darren Sammy
Gloucestershire Gladiators Bristol South Nevil Road New Zealand John Bracewell Australia Michael Klinger Australia Michael Klinger
Hampshire Southampton South Rose Bowl England Giles White England James Vince South Africa Kyle Abbott
Australia Glenn Maxwell
Kent Spitfires Canterbury South St Lawrence Ground West Indies Cricket Board Jimmy Adams England Robert Key Australia Doug Bollinger
Lancashire Lightning Manchester North Old Trafford England Peter Moores England Glen Chapple Pakistan Junaid Khan
Australia Usman Khawaja
Leicestershire Foxes Leicester North Grace Road England Phil Whitticase England Josh Cobb West Indies Cricket Board Ramnaresh Sarwan
New Zealand Scott Styris
Middlesex Panthers London South Lord's England Richard Scott England Eoin Morgan Australia Daniel Christian
Australia Chris Rogers
Northamptonshire Steelbacks Northampton North County Ground England David Ripley England Alex Wakely South Africa Richard Levi
Pakistan Sohail Tanvir
Nottinghamshire Outlaws Nottingham North Trent Bridge England Mick Newell England James Taylor Australia Peter Siddle
Somerset Taunton South County Ground South Africa David Nosworthy England Marcus Trescothick South Africa Alviro Petersen
Australia Dirk Nannes
Surrey London South The Oval South Africa Graham Ford South Africa Graeme Smith South Africa Graeme Smith
South Africa Hashim Amla
Sussex Sharks Hove South County Cricket Ground England Mark Robinson Ireland Ed Joyce Pakistan Yasir Arafat
Worcestershire Rapids Worcester North New Road England Steve Rhodes England Daryl Mitchell New Zealand Colin Munro
New Zealand Mitchell McClenaghan
Pakistan Saeed Ajmal
Yorkshire Vikings Leeds North Headingley Carnegie Australia Jason Gillespie England Andrew Gale Australia Aaron Finch
New Zealand Kane Williamson

North Division

Table

Team
Pld W L T NR Ded Pts NRR
Lancashire Lightning 1410202022+0.846
Nottinghamshire Outlaws 149302020+0.642
Worcestershire Rapids 148402018+0.48
Birmingham Bears 147502016+0.235
Yorkshire Vikings 146503015+0.588
Durham Jets 145702012+0.106
Northamptonshire Steelbacks 1447030110.899
Leicestershire Foxes 144901090.552
Derbyshire Falcons 1411201031.406

Source: [3]

Results

Home \ Away Birmingham Bears Derbyshire Falcons Durham Jets Lancashire Lightning Leicestershire Foxes Northamptonshire Steelbacks Nottinghamshire Outlaws Worcestershire Rapids Yorkshire Vikings
Birmingham Bears style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Birmingham Bears
6 wickets
style="background:#FFDEAD; text-align: center" | Abandoned
No result
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Birmingham Bears
52 runs
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Birmingham Bears
8 wickets
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Nottinghamshire Outlaws
6 runs
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Birmingham Bears
5 wickets
style="background:#FFDEAD; text-align: center" | Abandoned
No result
Derbyshire Falcons style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Derbyshire Falcons
3 wickets
style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Lancashire Lightning
20 runs
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Leicestershire Foxes
5 wickets
style="background:#FFDEAD; text-align: center" | Abandoned
No result
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Nottinghamshire Outlaws
5 wickets
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Worcestershire Rapids
8 runs
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Yorkshire Vikings
59 runs
Durham Jets style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Durham Jets
8 wickets
style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Lancashire Lightning
1 run
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Leicestershire Foxes
4 wickets
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Durham Jets
5 wickets
style="background:#FFDEAD; text-align: center" | Abandoned
No result
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Durham Jets
29 runs
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Yorkshire Vikings
49 runs
Lancashire Lightning style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Lancashire Lightning
15 runs
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Lancashire Lightning
35 runs
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Lancashire Lightning
27 runs
style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Lancashire Lightning
9 runs
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Lancashire Lightning
53 runs
style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Lancashire Lightning
12 runs
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Yorkshire Vikings
5 wickets
Leicestershire Foxes style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Birmingham Bears
25 runs
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Leicestershire Foxes
27 runs
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Leicestershire Foxes
3 wickets
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Lancashire Lightning
18 runs
style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | style="background:#FFDEAD; text-align: center" | Abandoned
No result
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Nottinghamshire Outlaws
24 runs
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Worcestershire Rapids
6 wickets
style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" |
Northamptonshire Steelbacks style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Northamptonshire Steelbacks
15 runs
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Northamptonshire Steelbacks
4 wickets
style="background:#FFDEAD; text-align: center" | Abandoned
No result
style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Northamptonshire Steelbacks
2 wickets
style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Nottinghamshire Outlaws
22 runs
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Worcestershire Rapids
31 runs
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Yorkshire Vikings
16 runs
Nottinghamshire Outlaws style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Birmingham Bears
18 runs
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Nottinghamshire Outlaws
27 runs
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Durham Jets
3 runs
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Nottinghamshire Outlaws
33 runs
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Nottinghamshire Outlaws
31 runs
style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Worcestershire Rapids
24 runs
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Nottinghamshire Outlaws
22 runs
Worcestershire Rapids style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Worcestershire Rapids
8 wickets
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Worcestershire Rapids
28 runs
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Worcestershire Rapids
5 wickets
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Lancashire Lightning
50 runs
style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Worcestershire Rapids
5 wickets
style="background:#FFDEAD; text-align: center" | Abandoned
No result
style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | style="background:#FFDEAD; text-align: center" | Abandoned
No result
Yorkshire Vikings style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Birmingham Bears
5 wickets
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Yorkshire Vikings
8 wickets
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Durham Jets
28 runs
style="background:#FFDEAD; text-align: center" | Abandoned
No result
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Yorkshire Vikings
14 runs
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Northamptonshire Steelbacks
3 wickets
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Nottinghamshire Outlaws
6 wickets
style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" |
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Home team win style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Away team win style="background:#DDFFDD; text-align: center" | Match tied style="background:#FFDEAD; text-align: center" | Match abandoned

Fixtures

May

June

July

South Division

Table

Team
Pld W L T NR Ded Pts NRR
Essex Eagles 1410400020+0.401
Surrey 149500018+0.426
Hampshire 149500018+0.136
Glamorgan 146512015+0.145
Somerset 1467010130.107
Kent Spitfires 1467100130.229
Sussex Sharks 1468000120.022
Gloucestershire Gladiators 1457022100.362
Middlesex Panthers 1421101050.457

Source: [4]

Deductions

Results

Home \ Away Essex Eagles Glamorgan Gloucestershire Gladiators Hampshire Kent Spitfires Middlesex Panthers Somerset Surrey Sussex Sharks
Essex Eagles style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Essex Eagles
4 wickets
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Essex Eagles
8 wickets
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Hampshire
5 wickets
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Essex Eagles
63 runs
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Essex Eagles
2 wickets
style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Essex Eagles
5 wickets
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Sussex Sharks
7 wickets
Glamorgan style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Essex Eagles
7 wickets
style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Glamorgan
8 wickets
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Hampshire
6 runs
style="background:#DDFFDD; text-align: center" | Match tied style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | style="background:#FFDEAD; text-align: center" | Abandoned
No result
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Surrey
17 runs
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Glamorgan
5 wickets
Gloucestershire Gladiators style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Gloucestershire Gladiators
6 wickets
style="background:#FFDEAD; text-align: center" | Abandoned
No result
style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Gloucestershire Gladiators
3 wickets
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Gloucestershire Gladiators
5 wickets
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Somerset
18 runs
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Surrey
5 runs
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Gloucestershire Gladiators
13 runs
Hampshire style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Hampshire
8 wickets
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Glamorgan
10 runs
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Hampshire
2 runs
style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Hampshire
22 runs
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Middlesex Panthers
50 runs
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Somerset
39 runs
style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Hampshire
6 runs
Kent Spitfires style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Essex Eagles
6 wickets
style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Kent Spitfires
21 runs
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Hampshire
47 runs
style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Kent Spitfires
16 runs
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Kent Spitfires
40 runs
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Kent Spitfires
21 runs
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Sussex Sharks
35 runs
Middlesex Panthers style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Essex Eagles
8 wickets
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Glamorgan
6 wickets
style="background:#FFDEAD; text-align: center" | Abandoned
No result
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Hampshire
47 runs
style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Middlesex Panthers
8 wickets
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Surrey
2 wickets
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Sussex Sharks
13 runs
Somerset style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Essex Eagles
8 wickets
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Glamorgan
7 runs
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Somerset
7 runs
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Somerset
1 run
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Kent Spitfires
42 runs
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Somerset
22 runs
style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Surrey
14 runs
style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" |
Surrey style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Essex Eagles
5 wickets
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Glamorgan
4 runs
style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Surrey
8 wickets
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Surrey
8 wickets
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Surrey
6 wickets
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Surrey
3 wickets
style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Surrey
10 wickets
Sussex Sharks style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" | style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Sussex Sharks
5 wickets
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Gloucestershire Gladiators
4 runs
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Hampshire
18 runs
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Kent Spitfires
3 runs
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Sussex Sharks
6 wickets
style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Somerset
34 runs
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Sussex Sharks
2 wickets
style="background:#C0C0C0; text-align: center" |
style="background:#CCCCFF; text-align: center" | Home team win style="background:#FFCCCC; text-align: center" | Away team win style="background:#DDFFDD; text-align: center" | Match tied style="background:#FFDEAD; text-align: center" | Match abandoned

Fixtures

May

June

July

Knockout stage

  Quarter-finals Semi-finals Final
                     
   Lancashire Lightning (H) 137/8
 Glamorgan 136/7
 Birmingham Bears 194/4  
 Surrey 178/7  
 Worcestershire Rapids 141/9
   Surrey (H) 144/7
     Birmingham Bears 181/5
   Lancashire Lightning 177/8
   Birmingham Bears 197/2
 Essex Eagles (H) 178/5
 Lancashire Lightning 160/5
 Hampshire 101  
 Nottinghamshire Outlaws (H) 197/2
   Hampshire 198/5

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Statistics

All statistics are accurate as of 3 August 2014.

Highest team totals

The following table lists the five highest team scores in the season.[6]

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 (total runs) in the season are included in this table.[7]

Player Team Runs Inns Avg S/R HS 100s 50s 4s 6s
Jason Roy Surrey 619 14 47.61 152.46 81* 0 8 67 25
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.[8]

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.[9]

Player Team Wkts Inns Ave S/R Econ BBI
Dirk Nannes Somerset 24 13 15.54 11.6 8.02 5/31
Jeetan Patel Birmingham Bears 23 12 10.52 11.2 5.62 4/19
Danny Briggs Hampshire 21 14 19.14 15.7 7.01 4/28
Junaid Khan Lancashire Lightning 19 10 14.00 12.3 6.82 4/12
Kabir Ali Lancashire Lightning 19 10 14.94 11.6 7.67 3/19

Best bowling figures

This table lists the top five players with the best bowling figures in the season.[10]

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

See also

References

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