Sri Lanka youth player and St Peter’s skipper Angelo Perera who led the first count with 22 votes stretched his lead further to finish with 267 votes at the end of the second count of the Bata -Sunday Times All Island Most Popular Schoolboy cricketer contest.

Angelo received 267 votes with his closest rivals Dulash Kumarasinghe of St Anthony’s Katugastota and Royal skipper Yasitha Abeykoon in the second and third slot accumulating 20 votes each.
Meanwhile Amith Tillekeratne of Sri Rahula Kandy and Malith Silva of Gateway International also retained their number one position. Amith who received 24 votes last week added a further 13 votes to end on 37 votes while there has been votes for only Malith Silva in the international schools category where he received 11 votes to finish on 62 votes.

All Island Contest
1. Angelo Perera St. Peter's College 267
2. Dulash Kumarasinghe St. Anthony's - 20
3. Yasitha Abeykoon Royal College 20
4. Adel Reyal St. Anthony's –Katugastota 17
5. Buwaneka Ekanayake Dharmaraja-Kandy 15
6. Navin Kavikara D.S. Senanayake College 14
7. Pasan Samerasekera Wesley College 12
8. Nishika De Silva St. Joseph's College 12
9. Nisal Fonseka St. Benedict's College 8
10. Haroon Mowjood Royal College 3

Outstation Contest

1. Amith Tillekeratne Sri Rahula -Kandy 37
2. Aloka Priyadharshana Moratuwa MV 14
3. Thivanka Abeyrathne Sri Sumangala-Panadura 10
4. S. Tillekeratne Karandeniya Central 8
International Schools’ Contest
1. Malith Silva Gateway International 62
Readers Prizes go to: 1. Nimesh Fonseka, 143, Hendala Road, Hendala, Wattala.
2. E.C.J. Regis, 122/1, Sri Devananda Mawatha, Thumbovila, Piliyandala. 3. Edna Arsekularatne, 115/6, Koralawella, Moratuwa.