The very first T20 World Cup, played in South Africa, saw 12 teams take part for the honour of being crowned the inaugural champions.
Still a relatively new format of the sport, it gave opportunities for games which were able to be changed in an instant as the world began to fall in love with the new shortest format of cricket.
The IPL would be born the following year, with much of its success put down to the holding of this first World Cup tournament, which took the sub-continent by storm in particular.
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That, of course, was helped by India getting the better of Pakistan in an enthralling final match.
A total of 27 matches were played, with the ten Test-playing nations (Australia, New Zealand, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, South Africa, Zimbabwe, England and the West Indies) joined by qualifiers Kenya and Scotland.
Here are five matches which stand out as the best from that original tournament, featuring plenty of cricket’s greatest ever stars.
It would be little surprise that the first-ever T20 World Cup match featured a Chris Gayle blitz. The West Indian opening batsman, who may go down as the greatest short-form player of all time, whacked 117 off just 57 balls to get the tournament rolling at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg.
While none of his teammates fired, they didn't need to. The hosts were flattened, with Shaun Pollock going for 52 runs from his four overs.
But just when you thought the game was gone, with South Africa needing 206 from their 20 overs - a score which in the early days of T20 cricket was always going to be difficult to chase - the batsmen came out and went on their own blitz against a poor West Indian bowling attack.
Herschelle Gibbs was the chief destroyer, scoring 90 from just 55 balls at a strike rate of 163, while the West Indies punched themselves over and over again with 28 sundries.
A powerful lower-order cameo from Justin Kemp, who monstered 46 runs from just 22 balls, saw South Africa chase down the enormous total with 14 balls to spare and eight wickets in hand in a run chase which set the tone for the tournament, and saw the phrase "nothing is impossible in T20 cricket" uttered by commentators.
The first T20 World Cup final saw India take on Pakistan in cricket's ultimate rivalry.
Two teams who rarely play each other outside of the big tournaments, this one came all the way down to the wire, and not for the first time this tournament (but more on that in a little bit).
Winning the toss and electing to bat, India struggled to get going properly at the New Wanderers Stadium, with only Gautum GHambhir able to get going properly.
He would score 75 from 54 balls, guiding India to 157 from their 20 overs, a late cameo from Rohit Sharma helping them to the competitive total.
All of Paksitan's bowlers were economical, while Umar Gul came away with 3 for 28 from his four overs.
As it turned out, the score was only just competitive, and only wickets would help India fall over the line, eventually bowling Pakistan out five runs short of the target with just three balls to spare in the innings.
Imran Nazir got things off to a fast start with 33 from 14 balls, before Misbah-ul-Haq held things together in the middle order with 43 from 38 balls, however, it was the wicket-taking ways of RP Singh and Irfan Pathan, who took three a piece, which would get India over the line.
Reaching the Super Eight stage, England had been upset by the hosts in the opening game of the round and were in a must-win situation against New Zealand during their second match.
Simply put, it was a case of win, or tournament over.
Chosing to field first, things got off to an excellent start for the Poms, reducing the Black Caps to 3 for 25, then 4 for 31 at the end of the powerplay.
They had the opposition on the ropes after an excellent opening to proceedings from James Anderson, Stuart Broad and Andrew Flintoff, who went on to finish with 1 for 11 from 3 overs.
But they couldn't get continue the rage, as Scott Styris (42 off 31 balls) and Craig McMillan (57 off 31 balls) combined for an excellent partnership to place New Zealand at a total well above par.
England looked like they were going to make light work of it though, with opener Darren Maddy leading the way. England were sitting pretty at 2 for 80 in the 11th over before disaster struck. Let by Daniel Vettori and Shane Bond, England would lose 4 for 24 in three overs, reducing their run rate and putting them well behind the equation.
Another collapse late in the innings after a mini resurgence led by Luke Wright and Oais Shah saw them eventually wind up just six runs short of keeping their tournament alive.
Pathan in particular, who took 3 for 16 on his way to being declared man of the match.
It could be reasonably argued that Australia have always struggled in the shortest form of the game.
They missed the eight-ball on taking T20 cricket seriously, and so maybe it should come as little surprise that they have never won a World Cup in T20 cricket, despite being so strong in the 50-over format.
But losing to Zimbabwe in their opening match of the 2007 tournament was a result which shocked the world.
After winning the toss and batting first, Australia found themselves at 3 for 19 with Matthew Hayden, Adam Gilchrist and Ricky Ponting all back in the sheds after four overs.
Andrew Symonds, Michael Hussey and Brad Hodge all made double figures as they held things together, but excellent bowling from Elton Chigumbura, who took 3 for 20, would limit the Aussies to just 138.
It should have been a competitive total, and it might have been, had it not been for the brilliance of Brendon Taylor, one of Zimbabwe's best ever.
He scored 60 from 45 balls as Zimbabwe managed to reach the target with a ball to spare.
If there was ever a game at a major tournament you wish was played on home soil, it was this one.
India and Pakistan would fight out the T20 World Cup's first tie, with the teams unable to be split at the end of play on 141 runs a piece.
It was a match which went back and forth. From India being 3 for 19, to Robin Uthappa's match-saving half-century, to Mohammad Asif's 4 for 18, and then onto Misbah-ul-Haq's 53 from 35 balls to get Pakistan back within striking distance, the match had it all.
While both teams proceeded to the super over as a result of the tie, the winner was eventually decided on a bowl out. In the days before the invent of the super over, the two teams would line up and bowl at the stumps, similar to a penalty shootout in football.
India would win that bowl out three-nil on what was an incredible day for the shortest format of the game.