T20 World Cup: Change is the name of the game

Many cricketers have often acknowledged that they didn’t have the foggiest idea about T20 in the first two or three editions of the World Cup. The format had been formally introduced only a couple of years when the inaugural World Cup was held in 2007 but it didn’t find many takers, at least among the more senior and established players. India and Australia finally bought into the idea with their own franchise leagues but they also took a good three years to find their feet. Only after 2011 did professionalism seep in, and the game started finding ways to become smarter through data analysis, matchups and specialised skills.