🏏 The 2025 Vitality Blast season has lift-off at Lord’s as Middlesex take on Sussex Sharks on Thursday 29 May with a double-header of matches featuring the men’s and women’s sides.
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Lord’s is the place to be to see Middlesex in Vitality Blast action as they embark on a 2025 campaign (see below for the competition format) including home matches against Sussex Sharks, Kent Spitfires and Essex Eagles, followed by a big London derby showdown against Surrey.
Anticipation levels for the new season are high following Middlesex’s announcement that Blackcaps star Kane Williamson has joined the club for the 2025 season. Williamson is the all-time leading Test run-scorer for New Zealand and widely regarded as one of the greatest modern-day batters in the game. He will be available for at least ten of Middlesex’s 14 Vitality Blast group fixtures.
A packed house is expected for Middlesex against Sussex Sharks at Lord’s for the opening fixture. fter a poor performance in the South Group last season, the Lord’s faithful will be hoping their men’s side can up their game in 2025. Starting with today’s showdown with the Sharks which sees both the men’s and women’s sides go head-to-head.
Can Middlesex take a bit out of the Sharks and start their season with a double-header of victories? All will be revealed tonight in NW8.
See below for the Lord’s fixture list. Don’t miss out on the chance to watch some world-class stars in action on the hallowed turf at the Home of Cricket!
TICKETS, TIMINGS & TRAVEL – Middlesex in Vitality Blast
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🕚 Play starts for Middlesex v Sussex Sharks on Thursday 29 May at 6pm.
Note: timings subject to confirmation.
🚊🚗 Travel tips: Lord’s is close to the centre of London and easy to reach by tube, train, bus and bike. The nearest tube station to Lord’s is St John’s Wood which is approximately five minutes’ walk from the ground. St John’s Wood is on the Jubilee Line. Westminster Council offer parking close to Lord’s at Kingsmill Terrace (NW8 6AA). See this How To Get To Lord’s guide for more information.
COMPETITION FORMAT
About the Vitality Blast: The Vitality Blast is English domestic cricket’s 20 overs a side competition. Between late May and late July 2025 the round robin stage sees each of the nine sides in the North Group and South Group (all 18 first-class counties take part) play 14 group games. Seven at home and seven away.
The top four teams in each pool progress to the quarter-finals in early September. The winners of the North Group face the fourth-placed team in the South Group in the last eight. And so on and so forth.
The winners of the quarter-finals advance to Finals Day at Edgbaston on Saturday 13 September.
Matches follow the standard T20 format. Each bowler can bowl a maximum of four overs. In each innings the first six overs are the powerplay with no more than two fielders allowed outside the 30-yard circle.
Vitality Blast 2025 South Group. Middlesex are joined by Essex, Glamorgan, Gloucestershire, Hampshire Hawks, Kent Spitfires, Somerset, Surrey and Sussex Sharks.
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