India, April 4 -- Matheesha Pathirana is a certified pianist and singer born into a family of musicians in Kandy. His father, Anura, and his mother, Shailika, are trained vocalists. After his initial tryst with different musical instruments, Matheesha aspired to become a pilot because of his mother's dreams and his desire to travel the world. He still travels a lot, but not as a pilot. Somewhere in between, he fell in love with cricket so intensely that it overpowered everything else.

Matheesha Pathirana's cricketing journey is as rare as it gets. It's not exactly a rags-to-riches story, nor is it entirely of cricketing excellence. It is something unnaturally natural. That's it, unnaturally natural. Try explaining this: A Sri Lankan teen...