In cricketing circles in recent times, the name of Roshan Mahanama stands out like a beacon, both at inter-school level and even at the higher level among Test playing countries in the world.So, with such wonderful promise that he held out as a schoolboy at Nalanda College, it was no surprise that he would climb the ladder of success - and climb he did in inter-school cricket seasons and it was no surprise that the judges in the Observer Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year Contests, he was picked as Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year for two years in succession in 1983 and 1984.