What connects these two, a superstar footballer for Spain, and an Indian allrounder who always seems to perform when given opportunities?
Both honour benefactors who made perhaps the best investment possible, in a dream, in talent.
Lamine Yamal's parents are Sheila Ebana and Mounir Nasraoui. But he is named after two men who helped out the struggling couple who had emigrated from different parts of Africa.
And Mani Sundar named his son after Colonel PD Washington, who backed Sundar's cricket career to the best of his ability. Washington passed away in 1999, but when Prema and Sundar had a boy the same year, they had no hesitation in naming him Washington, and Washington managed to fulfil every cricketing dream that Sundar himself could not.
Col Washington is no more, but wherever they are, if Lamine and Yamal switch on the television, they will see how their support so many years ago has blossomed into the most awesome homage to kindness and decency.