India, Feb. 12 -- With the cricketing world still coming to terms with the game's latest format, T20 cricket in 2010 was still an idea waiting to be embraced and explored. Standalone T20I tours were still unheard of, and teams were happy to do their bit by playing the odd T20 at the end of a full-fledged rubber - more a perfunctory compulsion than an organic acceptance.

The humming, buzzing potential of T20 cricket was yet to be tapped and while the likes of Yuvraj Singh and Shahid Afridi had shown the world what raw ambition and an unshackled mind could achieve, T20s were far from the inexhaustible behemoth they would become in the decade that followed.

The era of packing the batting line-up with big-hitters was still over a decade awa...