A reluctant India won the inaugural edition of ICC World T20 and the following year witnessed the birth of Indian Premier League (IPL), a money spinner for the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) which has now become probably the de facto 'festival of cricket'. On April 18 in 2008, the world got the first glimpse franchise-based T20 cricket. It now becomes a tradition of every cricket playing nation to have its own T20 league.