Denuwan Perera of Carey College climbed to the top of emerging category
The tenth week results of the Dialog 4G-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy / Schoolgirl Cricketer of the Year 2018 competition comes out this week with a fleet of exciting news. But no one from the All-Island Schools segment has been able to challenge Dellon Peiris, the S. Thomas’ College leg spinner, so far.
He pompously tops the list for yet another week with an unassailable lead as his tally reaches 8156 combined votes, after adding 1910 last week. Dellon leads Sachin Silva of St. Peter’s College by 4294 votes, which is a wholesome deficit at this juncture of the contest. Sachin’s tally moves up to 3862 with an addition of 1065 combined votes.
At third is Ananda College skipper Asel Sigera, with 1572 votes, ahead of Lumbini College’s Kavin Bandara, who has 1242 to his name.
As Dulaj Bandara of Dharmaraja College sits at fifth place with 741 votes, Vihan Gunasekara of D.S. Senanayake College debuts at sixth position with 664 straight online votes. This move pushes Thomian Kalana Perera and Benedictine Mahesh Theekshana to seventh and eighth positions respectively as Dinidu Wijewardene of Nalanda College joins in the fray with 193 digital votes at ninth position, as the number of contenders in the All-Island Schools reach 21.
As predicted last week, Denuwan Perera of Carey College climbed to the top of the Emerging Schools category, where many changes have taken place within a matter of days, Denuwan gradually moved to second from fourth last week, and took further control by adding 1412 votes, which took his tally to 2721. He leads former leader Sonara Karunathunga of Ananda Sastralaya by 731 and looks set to continue his dominance. Sonara, who dropped into second place, added 449 votes and is with a total of 1990 votes while Kenula Gunarathne of St. Aloysius College, Ratnapura too made his intentions clear by moving up a place to third. Kenula added 474 votes, taking his total to 1341, and could turn out to be that dark horse of the clash. As a result Thimira Malshan, Sonara’s team mate, moved another slot down to fourth while Heshan Madushanka of Piliyandala Central makes his first appearance at fifth position with an impressive 634 combined votes.
Harshitha Samarawickrama of Anula Vidyalaya, continues to lead the Girls’ Category, maintaining her lead with a healthy count of 2775. She added 1290 to her last week’s tally of 1485 and further expanded the deficit against Pabasara Ranabahu by 1227. Pabasara, of Rathnavali Girls’ School, Gampaha, added 770 to her tally, which now reads as 1548. Kaveesha Dilhani of Devapathiraja MV, Rathgama and Ruwini Nandasena of St. Joseph’s Girls School are the other two contenders in the list.
| Online Registration extended to December 31 Coupons will be published from October 1 in the Sunday Times and it will follow throughout the week in the two English dailies, the Daily Mirror and DailyFT, and the two Sinhala dailies, Daily Lankadeepa and Ada and Sinhala Weekend, Deshaya. Coupons will run for 26 weeks with the deadline set for April 5, 2018. Readers could vote for their favourite schoolboy or schoolgirl cricketer and take them to the winning post during this period. Dialog Axiata’s online voting system through their official Online Portal to vote for the Most Popular Cricketer (www.dialog.lk/cricket), came alive from October 1 with player registrations. The online registration process ended on November 30, but with greater demand registrations will be extended until December 31. Players who wish to enter the fray will have to confirm their participation by registering online with — www.dialog.lk/cricket/register. Even schoolboy cricketers whose names are entered into the competition by readers must register before that deadline. Names of players who registered online will be officially scrutinised of their eligibility and entered to the online voting mechanism, while the customary voting through coupons will be still on. The Online Portal is open for voting while online registration will be still accepted up to December 31. The names of registered players will be released weekly, every Friday after the cutoff date of Wednesday for weekly scrutinising each week until the deadline. Online voting will be open until April 5, 2018. Both coupon votes and online votes will be counted on a weekly basis and the official results published every week beginning next Sunday in the five newspapers and its websites. The deadline for COUPONS and ONLINE VOTES will be every Thursday Noon. Online Votes received after the weekly cutoff time will be counted for the next week, while for Coupons, ONLY those numbered for the particular week will be taken into count. This week’s digital voting count was monitored and approved by auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers. | |
Results: Week 10
All-Island Schools
Dellon Peiris S. Thomas’ College 8156
Sachin Silva St. Peter’s College 3862
Asel Sigera Ananda College 1572
Kavin Peiris Lumbini College 1242
Dulaj Bandara Dharmaraja College 741
Vihan Gunasekara D.S. Senanayake College 664
Kalana Perera S. Thomas’ College 441
Mahesh Theekshana St. Benedict’s College 334
Dinidu Wijewardene Nalanda College 193
Ravindu Fernando Maris Stella College 180
Kalana Wijesiri Ananda College 63
Yasitha Samararathne Dharmaraja College 59
Emerging Schools
Denuwan Perera Carey College 2721
Sonara Karunathunga Ananda Sasthralaya 1990
Kenula Gunaratne St Aloysius Ratnapura 1341
Thimira Malshan Ananda Sasthralaya 1291
Heshan Madushanka Piliyandala Central 639
Pulitha Yasas Sri Sumangala Panadura 253
Saliya Jeewantha Eheliyagoda Central 106
Pathum Hasaranga Vidyaloka Galle 74
Girls’ School
Harshitha Samarawickrama Anula Vidyalaya 2775
Pabasara Ranabahu Rathnavali GS, Gampaha 1548
Kaveesha Dilhari Devapathiraja, Rathgama 55
Ruwini Nandasena St. Joseph’s Girls School 8
Readers prizes go to: 1. Sunethra Jayasinghe, 325, Moragala Road, Eheliyagoda, 2. Ashen Pelawaththa, Watthegedara, Yatigaloluwa, Polgahawela, 3. M.E. Vanderwert, 152, Suhada Mawatha, Mahahunupitiya, Negombo, 4. A.M.M. Razmi, 121 1/1, Saranankara Road, Dehiwela.