Hyderabad, Feb. 12 -- Is there anything in common between the skill of making excellent pizzas and spinning a cricket ball? Perhaps only Crishan Kalugamage can answer that unusual question because he has mastered both skills. He is a pizza chef by trade and a cricketer by passion. The Sri Lanka-born spinner is among the only five Italy residents who are representing the European country in the ICC Men's T20 World Cup that is now in progress.

The rest of the Italian team consists of a hodgepodge mix of cricketers from different corners of the planet. Some do not live in Italy and many of them cannot speak the language. Some have never even visited Italy. But, due to a relaxation of rules by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for this...