Croosepulle cruises to top spot
View(s):Dialog 4G-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2017
As the combined results for 14th and 15th week of the Dialog 4G-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2017 comes out, a major change has occurred in the top position of the All-Island Schools segment. For the first time in after nine long weeks, Lasith Croospulle of Maris Stella College Negombo dethrones the stronghold of Navindu Nirmal of St. Aloysius College Galle to rein supreme.
Lasith, as he usually collects, gained 29086 votes during the past two weeks, the highest received by a schoolboy cricketer so far in this competition within a fortnight, tops the All-Island Schools segment with a resounding tally of 99181 votes. Interestingly most of Lasith’s votes have come from coupons.
His lead from Nirmal, who is forced down to the second slot, is a healthy 6014, which means Lasith’s followers have been quite busy even during the holiday season. Nirmal, meanwhile, received 6582 votes during the two weeks and his tally moves to 93167. Mohamed Najath of Zahira College has slowed down considerably as his total reaches 58825 after receiving 2269 combined votes.
The only change that occurred during the ended two weeks is the progress of Mohamed Rifaz of Presidents College Kotte from tenth to ninth, which caused the slid down of a place to one-time leader Lakshina Rodrigo of St. Peter’s College. The full list was pruned down to the Top 20 from with the beginning of April the list will be further cut down to 15 by May. By end of May it will be shortlisted to the Top 10.
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.
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 deadline set for week beginning on 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 Counts of week’s 14 and 15 of the digital voting was monitored and approved by auditors Pricewaterhouse Cooper.
All-Island Schools
Lasith Croosepulle (Maris Stella College) 99181
Navindu Nirmal (St. Aloysius’ Galle) 93167
Mohamed Najath (Zahira College) 58825
Charana Nanayakkara (Thurstan College) 10371
Santhush Goonathilake (St. Peter’s College) 8890
Romesh Nallaperuma (S. Thomas’ College) 6407
Dinitha Basnayake (St. Benedict’s College) 5632
Helitha Vithanage (Royal College) 1773
Mohamed Rifaz (Presidents College) 1242
Lakshina Rodrigo (St. Peter’s College) 1205
Nikesh Anjana (S. Thomas’ College) 686
Sahan Suraweera (Ananda College) 677
Dileepa Jayalath (Ananda College) 531
Hareen Buddhila (St. Aloysius College) 430
P.A. Dananjaya (Richmond College) 291
Sammu Ashan (Ananda College) 221
Pasindu Sooriyabandara (Royal College) 208
Asel Sigera (Ananda College) 183
Sanjula Abeywickrama (Isipathana College) 181
Jehan Daniel (St. Joseph’s College) 117
Emerging Schools
Pulitha Yasas (Sri Sumangala Panadura) 2592
Sahan Perera (Christ King Pannipitiya) 230
Imesh Basnayake (St. Peter’s Gampaha) 189
Gimhana Dhanushka (Piliyandala Central) 130
Nipuna Ransika (P. de S. Kularatne MV) 98
Methushan Thilina (Kegalu Vidyalaya) 83
Raveen Yasas (Devapathiraja Rathgama) 44
Hirusha Mendis (Siddartha Central Balapitiya) 32
Suminda Lakshan (De La Salle Mutwal) 27
Tissara Dilshan Jayananda (National School Polonnaruwa) 8
Shrushee Adhishtana (St. Bernadette Kurunegala) 1
International Schools
Shimraz Shahil (Alethea International) 260
Tariq Haniff (Wycherley International) 1
Readers prizes go to: 1. Kavindya Rasanjali, 92/4, Amunukumbura, Wathurugama, 2. T.C.K.P. Abeynayake, A-15-B/C-1-42, Ranpokunugama, Nittambuwa, 3. Yustes Fernando, 308B, Jubilee Mawatha, Katunayake, 4. Parakrama Fernando, 40/9, Bellantara Road, Dehiwela.