India, Feb. 10 -- Compared to how rapidly Twenty20 cricket has evolved, the shortest format was still taking baby steps when the second edition of the World Cup came around in England in 2009.

T20 cricket was an idea that took off in 2007 and fired the imagination in 2008 with the launch of the Indian Premier League (IPL), but it had only begun to take a concrete shape and form by the time June 2009 arrived with the World T20, as it was still being called.

If 2007 was all about Yuvraj Singh stamping his authority with six sixes in one Stuart Broad over and 2008 saw slam bang cricket catapulting itself into popular psyche thanks to a Brendon McCullum-supercharged inaugural IPL, 2009 was still a time when teams would approach the shortest...