Prakash Wakankar

But it's one of my favourites because I just loved the way the logo was.

It's sort of modelled on the Sri Lankan or the Sinhalese script.

And it's one of my favourite memories.

But it really was a tournament that, as I keep saying, I think brought T20 cricket to Asia in a way that it hadn't been brought before.

Fantastic.

Without question, but also, like you said earlier, Henry, I think the quality, if I may be bold enough to say, the quality of human beings in that Sri Lankan team, just the people like Jaiwardene, Sangakkara,

Vaas had just finished up but seeing the emergence of Ajanta Mendes, Malinga, Slinga Malinga and all the other stuff, I think it was the warmth of the occasion, the warmth of the Sri Lankan people, just the environment, I think it was simpler, cleaner, less complicated to a large extent and I think it was wonderful.

But in India, I know that a lot of people really understood net run rates after India fell away.

That's right.

And I remember this distinctly because people say, but we won the game.

How can we not have qualified?

And then people were sitting and calculating net run rates and calculators and what have you.

And there was a huge sense of disappointment because the logic at that time was, you won the last game, you've got to have qualified.

Surely, it wasn't to be.

saved it for that semi-final, didn't he?

I mean, he'd sort of been by his standards a little bit below par through the tournament till that stage, and then he really came to the fore in that semi-final, just dismantled Australia's bowling.

Yep, absolutely, and I think that's again, that was yet another example of runs on the board, pressure of a final, and of course they hadn't thought that they would be beaten at their own game by that man, Sunil Narain.

I mean, if you cast your mind back or look at the scorecard, you'll see that only three Sri Lankan players got into double figures in that game, in that final.

And two of them were players that you would expect to, which is Jaiwardene and Sangakkara.

And it was only Nuan Kulasekara, better known for his bowling, who got into double figures.