The 13th Week count of the Dialog 4G-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2017 comes to an end with Navindu Nirmal of St. Aloysius College Galle continuing his lead of the All-Island Schools. Navindu added a collection of 9168 combined votes to take his tally to 86585 and take a comfortable lead from the rest.
His lead against Lasith Croospulle, who is placed second, is 16490 and with the present pace, beating Navindu will be a hard task.
Lasith from Maris Stella College Negombo, for the fourth week running received the most number of combined votes, which is 9540 and his tally reads as 70095.
Mohamed Najath of Zahira College has lost momentum but still has 2667 combined votes to take his tally to 56556.
The gap between Lasith and Najath is 13539.
Others in the list looks as if they are settled with their positions as the 20 names remain unchanged for yet another week.
The full list was pruned down to the Top 20 from last week and by end of April the list will be further cut down to 15.
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.
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.
Player registration closed on February 28. Both coupon votes and online votes will be counted on a weekly basis and the official results published every week in the five newspapers and its websites, as well as that of Dialog Axiata's Online Portal.
The deadline for online voting will be the same as for the coupons.
Accepting coupons valid for each week will be received only until Thursday noon on each week.
Online voting for each week will be counted by Thursday noon each week.
This deadline will be strictly implemented by the organisers.
Coupons for the related week will NOT BE ACCEPTED AFTER THURSDAY NOON on each week. This is an open competition and unethical campaigning will be a disqualification.
The Sports Editor of the Sunday Times reserves all rights to disqualify such players if any illegal movements is found with proof. Count 13 of the digital voting was monitored and approved by auditors Pricewaterhouse Cooper.
Please note that the count for Coupon No.14 in the coming week will not be published due to early publication of newspapers owing the holiday season of New Year.
However the cutoff date remains as usual and the overall count of both Coupon No. 14 of next week and No.15 of the following week, will be published on the April 23 issue of the Sunday Times. The results will be published as usual there onward.
All-Island Schools
Navindu Nirmal (St. Aloysius' Galle) 86585
Lasith Croosepulle (Maris Stella College) 70095
Mohamed Najath (Zahira College) 56556
Charana Nanayakkara (Thurstan College) 10311
Santhush Goonathilake (St. Peter's College) 8794
Romesh Nallaperuma (S. Thomas' College) 6404
Dinitha Basnayake (St. Benedict's College) 5358
Helitha Vithanage (Royal College) 1742
Lakshina Rodrigo (St. Peter's College) 1203
Mohamed Rifaz (Presidents College) 1101
Sahan Suraweera (Ananda College) 677
Dileepa Jayalath (Ananda College) 524
Nikesh Anjana (S. Thomas' College) 495
Hareen Buddhila (St. Aloysius College) 326
P.A. Dananjaya (Richmond College) 287
Sammu Ashan (Ananda College) 213
Pasindu Sooriyabandara (Royal College) 196
Asel Sigera (Ananda College) 175
Sanjula Abeywickrama (Isipathana College) 157
Jehan Daniel (St. Joseph's College) 117
Lasith Udage (St. Mary's Kegalle) 95
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) 2409
Sahan Perera (Christ King Pannipitiya) 199
Imesh Basnayake (St. Peter's Gampaha) 157
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) 20
Tissara Dilshan Jayananda (National School Polonnaruwa) 8
Shrushee Adhishtana (St. Bernadette Kurunegala) 1
International Schools
Shimraz Shahil (Alethea International) 207
Tariq Haniff (Wycherley International) 1
Readers prizes go to: 1. S.L.A. Navaratne, 'Ruwanara', Iswetiyawatta, Narammala, 2. Jaliya Rangajiwa, 17/A, Mahena, Udathutthiripitiya, 3. Rohan Aloysius, 8/5, Ramanathan Avenue, Dehiwela, 4. Suvineetha Senadheera, 14, Wewala Church Road, Weligampitiya, Ja Ela
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