Richard Edwards recalls a summer’s day amid the gentility of Wimbledon that marked the birth of razzmatazz and riches in a cricket revolution

It’s high summer in 2007 and the Pimm’s is flowing at Wimbledon. Among the throng at the tennis in SW19 is an Indian businessman who is just about to turn the world of cricket completely on its head.
Despite the English T20 season having run successfully since 2003, there has been no headlong rush to embrace the format elsewhere. In the mind of Lalit Modi, cricket is missing a serious opportunity – and he is just a...