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.
1. India and Pakistan play out famous tie
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.
