Lasith continues to build on his popularity
Lasith Croosepulle of Maris Stella College Negombo continues to lead the All-Island Schools segment for the third week running in the Dialog 4G-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2017.
As the competition completes its 17th week Lasith had added 8070 combined votes, the highest among contenders for yet another week, as his tally swells to 119916. He stands 11677 ahead of Navindu Nirmal of St. Aloysius College Galle.
Navindu added 5064 combined votes to his tally, taking the count to 108239. The race now is clearly between Lasith and Navindu and with eight more weeks to go till the end, it could be anybody’s call.
Mohamed Najath of Zahira College has relatively downed his pace and the input has slowed down. His weekly collection has declined and this week he only received 598 combined votes.
Pulitha Yasas Sri Sarathchandra of Sri Sumangala College Panadura continues to dominate the Emerging Schools category while the International Schools category is still led by Shimraz Shahil of Alethea International School.
The full list will be pruned down to the Top 15 from this week and by end of May it will be shortlisted to the Top 10.
Important
Coupons of the competition will be published in the Sunday Times, the two English dailies, the Daily Mirror and DailyFT, and the two Sinhala dailies, Daily Lankadeepa and Ada. Coupons will run for 26 weeks with the final week set from July 2. Readers could vote for their favourite schoolboy cricketer and take them to the winning post during that period. Online voting could be done through Dialog Axiata’s digital online voting system Portal to vote for the Most Popular Cricketer via www.dialog.lk/cricket. The count of week 17 of digital voting was monitored and approved by auditors Pricewaterhouse Cooper.
| All-Island Schools Lasith Croosepulle (Maris Stella College) 119916 Navindu Nirmal (St. Aloysius’ Galle) 108239 Mohamed Najath (Zahira College) 60172 Charana Nanayakkara (Thurstan College) 10432 Santhush Goonathilake (St. Peter’s College) 9001 Romesh Nallaperuma (S. Thomas’ College) 6413 Dinitha Basnayake (St. Benedict’s College) 5985 Helitha Vithanage (Royal College) 1804 Mohamed Rifaz (Presidents College) 1325 Lakshina Rodrigo (St. Peter’s College) 1205 Nikesh Anjana (S. Thomas’ College) 956 Sahan Suraweera (Ananda College) 688 Dileepa Jayalath (Ananda College) 531 Hareen Buddhila (St. Aloysius College) 489 P.A. Dananjaya (Richmond College) 291 Emerging Schools International Schools Readers prizes go to: 1. H.M. Ariyaratne, 122/17, Ganewatte, Lewalla, Kandy, 2. Nathan Amath, 40/41, Katuwawela Road, Maharagama, 3. Yasiru Dilshan, 426/2, Araliyagahawatte, Dorape, Angulgaha, 4. Ajith Aberatne, 50/1, Siripa Road, Colombo 5. |