New Delhi: Eighteen years ago on this day, India ‘s win in the inaugural T20 World Cup on September 24, 2007, marked a tectonic shift in the course of cricket.

Not only it helped India take to the new 20-over format, it paved way for the creation of the money-spinner Indian Premier League and mushrooming of franchise-based T20 leagues all around the world.

India had played in only one T20 prior to the tournament held in South Africa as the Board of Control for Cricket in India were sceptical of the new format.

Their legendary trio of Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly preferred to opt out and the BCCI rested Zaheer Khan, sending a young team to participate.

Though the team had Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Robin Uthappa, Yuvraj Singh, Rohit Sharma, Harbhajan Singh,

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