One does not often come across someone as humble as Sridharan Sriram.
A conversation with this diminutive opening batsman leaves you with an overwhelming feeling of simplicity.
Perhaps it is exactly that quality that makes him speak freely while talking to CricInfo after making an excellent century for Board Presidents XI against England in the three-day match at Hyderabad.
In his innings, Sriram was very sluggish to start with, especially after losing his opening partner Wasim Jaffer for a golden duck.
There were even a few English journalists who asked the CricInfo correspondent if Sriram was always as boring.
But, after taking his time to get to his fifty, he blossomed to play an entertaining knock, forcing those same journalists to eat their words.
The batsman went on to make 149, pressing his claims for the openers slot in the national side.
It was an innings of determination and character, which would not have missed the attention of the selectors assembled in Hyderabad.
Sriram is a 25-year-old opening batsman from Tamil Nadu who has represented India in a few one-day internationals.
He was a recepient of the Border-Gavaskar scholarship and spent some time in the Commonwealth Bank Cricket Academy in Adelaide, along with Shiv Sunder Das and Mohammad.
Sriram is a brilliant fielder and an able left-arm spinner.
He has now been working again on his bowling after neglecting it for a few years.
Sriram had a successful tour of the West Indies with the India A side a few years ago, sharing honours with Murali Kartik and Rahul Sanghvi.
Starting cricket as a left-arm spinner, Sriram would be an immense addition to Indian cricket if he can develop into an able all- rounder.
In an exclusive interview to CricInfo, Sriram talked about his batting in the middle and a few other aspects of the game.