Spread more than three months, the opposition will highlight a portion of the position's greatest names from abroad, including Chris Gayle, Shahid Afridi and Brendon McCullum, and home-developed players, for example, Alex Hales, Luke Wright and Jason Roy.
Ruling champions Birmingham Bears get their battle going with a precarious outing to Nottinghamshire and chief of cricket Dougie Brown said he needed his side to show signs of improvement begin than in 2014 when they simply scratched into the quarter-finals.
"We burgled our way through the gathering stage a year ago and that is something we have to address this time round," he told BBC Sport.
"We have to be better in the gathering stage."
Chestnut likewise encouraged his side not to depend on New Zealand captain McCullum, who won't be landing at Edgbaston until the end of June, after his nation face England in two Tests, five one-day internationals and a T20 global.
"Brendon McCullum is a decent player who will add to what we have got, yet we won the opposition a year ago without him, so he is not coming in as a guardian angel," included Brown.
"On the off chance that we play poor cricket before he comes, we will be out of the opposition at any rate.
"We have got a methodology that we embrace and we played it extremely well a year ago, so I don't see us changing an awesome arrangement. It's only an instance of people expecting to front up and carry out their employments."
Then, a year ago's beaten finalists Lancashire Lightning start against Leicestershire at Old Trafford.
NatWest T20 Blast Fixtures - Friday, 15 May
Durham v Northants - Chester-le-Street - 17:30 BST
Gloucestershire v Middlesex - Bristol - 17:30 BST
Lancashire v Leicestershire - Old Trafford - 18:30 BST
Nottinghamshire v Warwickshire - Trent Bridge - 18:30 BST
Surrey v Glamorgan - The Oval - 18:30 BST
Hampshire v Essex - Southampton - 19:00 BST
Kent v Sussex - Canterbury - 19:00 BST
Yorkshire v Derbyshire - Headingley - 19:00 BST
In any case, they will be without Andrew Flintoff, who affirmed he would not be returning after a year ago's T20 stretch with the club.
Lancashire head mentor Ashley Giles said he was energized by the quantity of abroad stars prepared to play in the current year's rival.
"We've seen in the Big Bash and IPL, all these enormous names playing and they unquestionably do get the group," he told BBC Radio Manchester.
"It's extraordinary seeing them come here, any semblance of Gayle, (Corey) Anderson, McCullum, (James) Faulkner here, (Glenn) Maxwell at Yorkshire.
"It's extraordinary for the amusement, its incredible for the adolescents around them who I'm certain will take in a great deal."
The greater part of matches will occur on Friday nights, with a diffusing of recreations at weekends and some Thursday nighttimes, before finals day at Edgbaston on Saturday, 29 August.
BBC Sport will be giving live content editorial to the T20 Blast on Friday nighttimes and there will likewise be radio discourse on all diversions.
A more intensive take a gander at a portion of the abroad stars.....
Chris Gayle
Apparently the best T20 batsmen in the position's short history, the enormous hitting Jamaican is certain to take a jumping at the chance to Taunton's little limits - albeit no limit is sufficiently huge for Gayle when he swings that enormous bat.
The 35-year-old left-hander's record represents itself with no issue as he holds the majority of the T20 records. His 175 not out for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the 2013 Indian Premier League (IPL) is the most noteworthy Twenty20 score, he has hit the most T20 hundreds of years (14) which is eight more than Brendon McCullum in second. His 517 sixes is the most by a separation and he has the most noteworthy number of keeps running with 7,362.
Gayle will join Somerset on either 22 May or 29 May, contingent upon how far his side go in the IPL, and play up to six matches before his spell completes on 13 June.
Shahid Afridi Info
Frequently as disappointing as he is damaging, couple of players be able to change a match with bat or ball than Shahid 'Blast' Afridi.
Subsequent to making an ODI century off only 37 balls at 16 years old, the eyes of the cricketing scene has been on the Pakistan all-rounder for right around two decades.
His swashbuckling style of batting where he supposes each ball can go for six does not generally pay profits, but rather when he does stay in for any time span he can rapidly detract the amusement from the resistance.
Presently matured 35, Afridi's leg-twist rocking the bowling alley is seen as his fundamental resource and his mixed bag in pace frequently swindles batsmen. He will play in Northants' initial six recreations.
Brendon McCulum
The New Zealand chief has appreciated a noteworthy 18 months, scoring a Test triple hundred, driving his national side to their first World Cup last and solidifying his spot as one of the world's best T20 batsmen.
McCullum has turn out to be considerably additionally assaulting with age and purpose on crushing restriction bowlers to all parts of the ground inside the opening six overs of a Twenty20 match.
The 33-year-old has marked a seven-diversion manage the Bears and will land at Edgbaston after the Black Caps voyage through England wraps up.
His first diversion is planned to be against Lancashire Lightning at Old Trafford on Friday, 26 June.
Other global players to pay special mind to: Hashim Amla (South Africa) & Tillakaratne Dilshan (Sri Lanka) - Derbyshire; Jesse Ryder (New Zealand) - Essex; James Faulkner (Australia) - Lancashire; Grant Elliott (New Zealand) - Leicestershire; Darren Sammy (West Indies) - Nottinghamshire; Corey Anderson (New Zealand) - Somerset; George Bailey (Australia) & Mahela Jayawardene (Sri Lanka) - Sussex; Colin Munro (New Zealand) - Worcestershire; Glenn Maxwell (Australia) - Yorkshire
Who can give the home-developed sparkle?
Luke Wright
The Sussex T20 captain has encouraged his side to go for broke and the 30-year-old will positively be at the bleeding edge of that.
Wright scored 601 keeps running at a strike rate of more than 162 in the 2014 T20 Blast, including a profession best 153 not out against Essex.
He has turn into a standout amongst the most risky opening batsmen in the diversion with an assaulting aim from ball one.
Jason Roy
Among all the Surrey stars, Jason Roy was the name on everybody's lips the previous summer as he indented up nine fifties in the opposition and finished as the main run-scorer with 677 runs.
The 24-year-old goes into the opposition on the back of a 28-ball half-century, which helped his side pursue down 216 in under 22 overs against Leicestershire in the County Championship.
Roy has developed as a standout amongst the most energizing gifts in the amusement.
Alex Hales
Alex Hales has been as his life toward the begin of this mid year scoring up more than 500 keeps running for Nottinghamshire in the Championship, including a profession best 236 against Yorkshire.
Few can coordinate the 26-year-old's six-hitting capacity as he demonstrated when he scored an unbeaten 116 from 64 balls against Sri Lanka in the 2014 World Twenty20 in Bangladesh.
He may be streaming off for a fleeting stretch with the Mumbai Indians in the IPL, however he will by and by be a key figure as Notts hope to lift their first T20 trophy.
Other residential players to watch: Chris Woakes - Birmingham Bears; Phil Mustard - Durham; Graham Napier - Essex; James Vince - Hampshire; Darren Stevens - Kent; Jos Buttler - Lancashire; David Willey & Josh Cobb - Northants; Riki Wessels - Nottinghamshire; Peter Trego - Somerset; Steven Davies - Surrey; Richard Oliver - Worcestershire
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