Kerry Packer and reinventing cricket

Tributes are pouring in for the man who was instrumental (that's underplaying his role) in changing cricket forever, and richly deserved encomiums are being lavished upon the intrepid entrepreneur who was known to be a somewhat inveterate gambler, in more ways than one. Thinking about the changes that World Series Cricket wrought in the cricketing world, directly or indirectly, one thing that stuck me was how all the innovations in cricket, for better or worse (which is always debatable), have come from outside the sub-continent. Mostly from England and Australia, some from the other two nations in the Southern Hemisphere. I would like to think the most recent innovations, the supersub and the powerplay, were inspired by ideas from the sub-continent, may be I'm missing something there. The innovations I'm talking about are those that change the way game is played, like the 30-yard circle and related restrictions, the consequent emergence of the pinch-hitter, the reverse sweep, the third umpire etc., and those that change the way the game is viewed - stumpcams, snickometer, hawk-eye, super slow-motion replays etc. The one change I can think of that perhaps was driven by India and Pakistan - certainly Imran Khan lobbied hard for it - was having neutral umpires. Considering the passion for the game, it is indeed surprising that something like Twenty20 didn't come from India. I'm not indulging in any self-flagellation here, just a thought, somewhat tangential to the topic of this post. Anybody have any insights into this (or indeed corrections to make)? Some may suggest, half-seriously, that we have invented whole new ways of selecting teams and individuals, and I'll have to agree with that ;) - NK