We're down to the final four in the 2025 Vitality Blast men's competition, with Hampshire Hawks, Lancashire Lightning, Northamptonshire Steelbacks and Somerset heading to Edgbaston to battle it out for the trophy.
The Hawks have a chance to create history by becoming the first team to win four Blast titles, while Northamptonshire and Somerset could join Hampshire and Leicestershire Foxes on three titles with a win on Saturday.
All four teams overcame challenging opponents in the quarter-finals last week, setting up two mouthwatering semi-final matchups.
Lancashire Lightning v Somerset - 11.00am start
Lancashire Lightning
2025 group stage record: W9 L5 - 1st in North Group
Leading run-scorer: Keaton Jennings - 415 runs @ 27.66
Leading wicket-taker: Luke Wood - 22 wickets @ 16.59
Quarter-final result: Beat Kent Spitfires by three wickets (scorecard)
Finals Day record: One win (2015), 3x runners-up, 5x semi-final losses
Lancashire legend Steven Croft assumed head coaching duties ahead of the 2025 Vitality Blast campaign, following a poor start to the season in red-ball cricket, and the former all-rounder led Lightning to the top of the North Group.
Ten years on from their one and only Vitality Blast triumph, Lancashire will be without several England stars with Phil Salt, Jos Buttler and Luke Wood all absent on international duty. But with Liam Livingstone not in England's current plans, the big-hitting batter will be key to his side's chances of progressing on Saturday.
Sir James Anderson could be the first knight of the realm to play at Finals Day, but his availability is questionable, having missed Lancashire's Rothesay County Championship match at Kent through injury this week.
See Lancashire Lightning's 2025 best bits below.
Somerset
2025 group stage record: W11 L3 - 2nd in South Group
Leading run-scorer: Will Smeed - 521 runs @ 40.07
Leading wicket-taker: Riley Meredith - 28 wickets @ 16.32
Quarter-final result: Beat Bears by four wickets (scorecard)
Finals Day record: Two wins (2005 & 2023), 5x runners-up, 3x semi-final losses
Like Lancashire and Hampshire, Somerset must know the hotel staff in Birmingham by their first names thanks to the number of times they've played at Finals Day in recent years. This is Somerset's 11th appearance in the semi-finals and their record of progressing to the final stands at an impressive 70 per cent, but their five runner-up finishes is an unwanted statistic.
Somerset are also hit with the absence of several key players. Leading wicket-taker Riley Meredith has been called back to Australia to prepare for Tasmania's domestic season, while Matt Henry has been withdrawn by New Zealand Cricket ahead of their upcoming internationals and Tom Banton is away with England Men.
This means the West Country side will be relying on the likes of stalwarts Lewis Gregory and Craig Overton to lead them to victory, as well as a couple of players who have confirmed their departures at the end of the season - Sean Dickson and Ben Green. The success of Will Smeed, with 521 runs in the tournament so far, will also be key.
Northamptonshire Steelbacks v Hampshire Hawks - 2.30pm start
Northamptonshire Steelbacks
2025 group stage record: W8 L6 - 4th in North Group
Leading run-scorer: Ravi Bopara - 453 runs @ 45.30
Leading wicket-taker: Ben Sanderson & George Scrimshaw - 26 wickets @ 16.50 & 20.00
Quarter-final result: Beat Surrey by seven runs (scorecard)
Finals Day record: Two wins (2013 & 2016), one runner-up, one semi-final loss
Many will see Northamptonshire Steelbacks as underdogs going into Finals Day, and Darren Lehmann's men arguably thrive on proving people wrong. Few neutrals predicted the manner in which they dispatched Surrey in the quarter-finals, thanks to Ravi Bopara's heroics with the bat, but the result was testament to the fine job Lehmann and the Northants top brass have built this team to return to the top table of T20 teams in England and Wales.
David Willey's return to lead the side has resulted in trips to the knockout stages in consecutive seasons, while the recruitment of the likes of Bopara and George Scrimshaw have paid dividends this summer. Willey has excelled with bat, ball and in the field in 2025 and will want to repeat his Finals Day heroics from 2013, where scored 60 from 27 balls in the final and then took a hat-trick to win Northants their first title.
Watch the Steelbacks' best bits of 2025.
Hampshire Hawks
2025 group stage record: W7 L6 - 3rd in South Group
Leading run-scorer: Toby Albert - 540 runs @ 49.09
Leading wicket-taker: Scott Currie - 23 wickets @ 19.30
Quarter-final result: Beat Durham by 26 runs (scorecard)
Finals Day record: Three wins (2010, 2012 & 2022), 7x semi-final losses
Can Hampshire win a record-breaking fourth Vitality Blast title this weekend? When the reach the final, they always win, but they've shown this year that they're far from invincible.
Toby Albert has shone with the bat, but as has regular talisman James Vince, but a revolving door of overseas stars has seen some inconsistencies in their performances so far. South African trio Dewald Brevis, Lhuan-dre Pretorius and Bjorn Fortuin all came and went during the group stages as Hawks batters somewhat struggled to score big runs.
But the recruitment of Hilton Cartwright for the second-half of the group stage and knockouts helped propel them to the knockout stages, with fellow Aussie Chris Lynn also adding some beef to the top of the lineup, scoring a pair of 51s in his two matches so far. Cartwright is unavailable for Finals Day, having been recalled by Western Australia, while Lynn will come up against his former team in Northamptonshire on Saturday afternoon.
The Hawks will also be without Liam Dawson, who's with England Men, but should have influential bowlers Scott Currie, Chris Wood and Benny Howell to call on as they look to make history.