Is unstructured grooming of the Asian players proving to be a blessing in disguise in T20? SportsCenter’s Ash’ar Khan finds out.

Innovation is the name of the game in the shortest format of cricket, the Twenty20.

And, the slam-bang version is also considered to be the most unpredictable form of the game. Incidentally it's also the unpredictable subcontinent teams who have flourished in this format.

It's the unorthodox Asians who hogged the limelight in the second edition of the ICC World Twenty20. The unpredictability of the players from the subcontinent turned out to be the difference between the winners and losers at the pinnacle of the T20 competition.

"We have a lot of tennis ball cricket and beach cricket being played in Sri Lankan streets. We are also very lucky to have coaches who are capable of identifying the right talent at the right time. We then groom the talent and let it retain its USP and original style," said Sri Lanka skipper Kumar Sangakkara.

Ajantha Mendis is an example, he is unorthodox yet successful."

Not only for the second consecutive time were the finalists in the ICC World T20 Asians, the players impressed with the bat as well as with the ball. All the top five bowlers in the second edition were Asians. Of the top 10 batsmen, six were from the subcontinent.

Tillakaratne Dilshan's eye catching Dilscoop helped him finish at the top of the most run-getter's list.

"I used to practise different kinds of shots. I spent a lot of time on my scoop shot over the head in nets and with the bowling machine. I was confident of playing this shot to perfection," Tillakaratne Dilshan, player of the tournament, said.

"While they have a long way to go to match the fielding skills of their western counterparts, the subcontinent teams have shown signs of brilliance. The untamed raw talent that was once considered the biggest bane of Asian teams perhaps will turn out to be their biggest asset in the shortest form of the game," Yajurvindra Singh, former India player, said.