The 2022 Vitality Blast is the 2022 time of the T20 Blast, an expert Twenty20 cricket association played in England and Wales. The competition is being held from 25 May to 16 July 2022. It is the fifth season wherein the homegrown T20 contest, shown to the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), was marked as the Vitality Blast because of the competition's sponsorship reason. The Kent Spitfires are the reigning champs, having brought home their second championship during the past season. On 20 January 2022, the ECB reported the apparatuses for the tournament.
The teams were divided into the following groups:
North Group:
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Birmingham Bears, Derbyshire Falcons, Durham, Lancashire Lightning, Leicestershire Foxes, Northants Steelbacks,Notts Outlaws, Worcestershire Rapids, Yorkshire Vikings
South Group:
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Essex Eagles, Glamorgan, Gloucestershire, Hampshire Hawks, Kent Spitfires, Middlesex, Somerset, Surrey, Sussex Sharks