A pitched battle for supremacy expected in coming weeks
Week after week Lahiru Thambawita of Holy Cross College Kalutara is closing the gap but Pawan Dias of Royal College Panadura still holds on to the lead of the 37th Bata-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2016 as the competition completes its seventh week.
Last week the deficit between Pawan and Lahiru came down to 722 from four figures but by this week it has further thinned down to 448. This indicates stiff competition between the top two in weeks to come. This week Pawan’s tally reached 2303 with an addition of 110 votes but Lahiru’s 384 votes obtained during the ended week takes up his total to 1855.
Lakshina Rodrigo of St. Peter’s College, follows in at third place with a tally of 1127 after adding 152 to his previous week’s total. Ravin Sayer of Trinity College, Malshan Rodrigo of St. Joseph’s College, Pasindu Sooriyabandara of Royal College Colombo are in at fourth, fifth and sixth spots respectively with three-figure counts.
Madawa Fernando of De La Salle College Mutwal managed to surpass the 1000 mark after addition 247 to his tally as he remains the leader of the Emerging Schools category for the seventh continuous week. Dilshan Madushanka of Siri Piyarathana Central Padukka, who entered the fray two weeks ago, is yet to make an impression while Riyaz Rizvy of Azhar College Akurana makes his entry making it a three-way encounter. The International Schools category is yet to kick off.
Coupons of the 37th Bata-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2015 will appear on Wijeya Newspaper’s dailies, the Daily Mirror and Lankadeepa and also its weekend English issue, the Sunday Times and the Sinhala weekly Deshaya. Readers will be able to send in as much as coupons in favour of their favourite schoolboy cricketer until mid May.
