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.
2. Zimbabwe stun Australia in nail-biter
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.
