T20 Blast Finals Day: Date, venue, teams, history & how to watch

Since the inaugural edition of the T20 Blast in 2003, Finals Day has developed into a staple of the English cricketing calendar.

The Blast's showpiece event stages two semi-final matches before the winners of both fixtures meet in the final to decide who is crowned champion.

With demand for tickets increasing year-on-year, Finals Day is an entertaining spectacle that combines top-class Twenty20 cricket with live music, mascot races and many other wacky activities.

T20 Blast Finals Day date

Finals Day will take place on Saturday 14th September 2024.

T20 Blast Finals Day times

With gates opening to spectators at 09:00 (BST), the first semi-final will start at 11:00.

The second semi-final is pencilled in to commence at 14:30 and the final is expected to be underway by 18:45.

T20 Blast Finals Day venue

The showpiece T20 event will be held at Edgbaston Stadium, Birmingham for the 11th consecutive year.

T20 Blast Finals Day teams

Finals Day will consist entirely of teams from the southern section following a dramatic week of quarter-final action.

The four teams are:

• Surrey
• Sussex
• Somerset
• Gloucestershire

T20 Blast Finals Day how to watch & TV channel

Sky Sports Cricket will broadcast all three Finals Day fixtures live from Edgbaston.

T20 Blast Finals Day history

The first Finals Day was held at Trent Bridge in 2003 after Lord's was prevented from hosting the event when Westminster City Council refused to grant the venue an entertainment licence, and the Surrey Lions were the inaugural winners against the Warwickshire Bears.

In the next 10 years it would be held at Edgbaston, The Oval, Rose Bowl and Sophia Gardens before the ECB agreed a long-term contract to permanently stage Finals Day at Edgbaston, which has remained the home of the event ever since.

The Leicestershire Foxes and Hampshire Hawks (previously known as Hampshire Royals) are the most successful sides in T20 Blast history with three titles apiece.

Somerset are the defending champions having defeated Essex in the final last year to claim their second success in the competition.

Fascinatingly, the last 10 seasons of the Blast have been won by 10 different winners, with Somerset vying to become the first county to go back-to-back.