U-19 Cricket: Lasith consolidates his lead in Dialog 4G-TST Most Popular Schoolboy of the Year

With another impressive haul of 12665 votes, Lasith Croospulle of Maris Stella College Negombo manages to maintain his lead which he gained last week of the All-Island Schools segment of the Dialog 4G-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2017. 

The 16th week comes in favour of Lasith overall, as his overall count reaches 111,846. 

Lasith stands 8671 votes ahead of former leader Navindu Nirmal of St. Aloysius College Galle. 

Navindu accelerated by adding 10008 votes to his now overall tally of 103175, but that was not sufficient. 

Mohamed Najath of Zahira College has slowed down. 

He received only 749 votes this week. 

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 was pruned down to 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. 

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 count of week 16 of digital voting was monitored and approved by auditors Pricewaterhouse Cooper. 

All-Island Schools 

Lasith Croosepulle (Maris Stella College) 111846 

Navindu Nirmal (St. Aloysius' Galle) 103175 

Mohamed Najath (Zahira College) 59574 

Charana Nanayakkara (Thurstan College) 10401 

Santhush Goonathilake (St. Peter's College) 8950 

Romesh Nallaperuma (S. Thomas' College) 6412 

Dinitha Basnayake (St. Benedict's College) 5794 

Helitha Vithanage (Royal College) 1785 

Mohamed Rifaz (Presidents College) 1292 

Lakshina Rodrigo (St. Peter's College) 1205 

Nikesh Anjana (S. Thomas' College) 835 

Sahan Suraweera (Ananda College) 683 

Dileepa Jayalath (Ananda College) 531 

Hareen Buddhila (St. Aloysius College) 473 

P.A. Dananjaya (Richmond College) 291 

Sammu Ashan (Ananda College) 232 

Pasindu Sooriyabandara (Royal College) 212 

Sanjula Abeywickrama (Isipathana College) 191 

Asel Sigera (Ananda College) 189 

Jehan Daniel (St. Joseph's College) 134 

Lasith Udage (St. Mary's Kegalle) 118

Avishka Perera (Nalanda College) 55

Naveen Gunawardana (Thurstan College) 54

Dineth Madurawala (St. Joseph's College) 25

Thilina Perera (Wesley College) 25

Shanogeeth Shanmuganathan     (Trinity College) 25

Salith Fernando (St. Anthony's Wattala) 17

Kavindu Gimhana (Ananda College) 15

Pathum Nissanka (Isipathana College) 14

Avishka Fernando (St. Sebastian's Moratuwa) 14

Thilina Nemesh (Prince of Wales') 11

Emerging Schools 

Pulitha Yasas (Sri Sumangala Panadura) 2679 

Sahan Perera (Christ King Pannipitiya) 235 

Imesh Basnayake (St. Peter's Gampaha) 214 

Gimhana Dhanushka (Piliyandala Central) 130 

Nipuna Ransika (P. de S. Kularatne MV) 98 

Methushan Thilina (Kegalu Vidyalaya) 83 

Raveen Yasas (Devapathiraja Rathgama) 44 

Suminda Lakshan (De La Salle Mutwal) 40 

Hirusha Mendis (Siddartha Central Balapitiya) 32 

Tissara Dilshan Jayananda (National School Polonnaruwa) 8 

Shrushee Adhishtana (St. Bernadette Kurunegala) 1 

International Schools 

Shimraz Shahil (Alethea International) 283 

Tariq Haniff (Wycherley International) 1 

Readers prizes go to: 1. Mohan Saverimuttu, 235/9, Greenwood Terrace, Kerawalapitiya, Hendala, Wattala, 2. Vinuth S. Siriwardana, 43/56, Poorwarama Road, Colombo 5, 3. Ranjan Sudarshana, Kanilmo Inn, Mattegoda, Ku/Bopitiya, 4. Sarath K.K. Fernando, 41, 2nd Lane, Ratmalana.