Croosepulle moves to slot two at the expense of Najath

Still unchallenged, the leader of the All- Island Schools segment of the Dialog 4G- the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2017 competition, Navindu Nirmal of St. Aloysius College Galle, continues to forge ahead as the contest moves to the 11th week. The addition of 6150 combined votes during the ended we e k helps Navindu take his tally to 70262.

Mohamed Najath of Zahira College loses his grip for the first time and concedes his slot to Lasith Croospulle of Maris Stella College Negombo. Lasith managed to add the most number of combined votes for the third consecutive week and an addition of 7762 takes his tally to 51897. This is a meager lead of 31 votes from Najath, who adds 1968 during the ended week. Najath's tally presently reads as 51866. Others in the top half of the lost list too added more votes to their existing tally but the list remain unchanged for yet another week.

This will be the final week where the full list will be published of the all segments of the competition as it will be pruned down to the Top 20 beginning from April.

All-Island Schools

By end of April the list will be further cut down to 15 and by end of May it will be shortlisted to the Top 10.

Pulitha Yasas Sri Sarathchandra of Sri Sumanga l a C o l l e g e Panadura continues to dominate the Emerging Schools category as Gimhana Danushka of P i l i yandala Central remains to No. 2 undisturbed. However Sahan Perera of Christ King Pannipitiya and Imesh Basnayake of St. Peter's Negombo move in to the third and fourth positions this week. The International Schools cat e gory is l ed by Shimraz Shahil of Alethea International School.

Important

Coupons of the competition will be published in the Sunday Times, the two English dailies, the D a i l y Mir ro r 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 Navindu Nirmal (St. Aloysius' Galle) ...................... 70262 Lasith Croosepulle (Maris Stella College) ............... 51897 Mohamed Najath (Zahira College) ......................... 51866 Charana Nanayakkara (Thurstan College) .............. 10206 Santhush Goonathilake (St. Peter's College) ............ 8078 Romesh Nallaperuma (S. Thomas' College) .............. 6394 Dinitha Basnayake (St. Benedict's College) .............. 4958 Helitha Vithanage (Royal College) ............................ 1674 Lakshina Rodrigo (St. Peter's College) ...................... 1182 Mohamed Rifaz (Presidents College) ......................... 984 Sahan Suraweera (Ananda College) .......................... 674 Dileepa Jayalath (Ananda College) ............................ 524 Nikesh Anjana (S. Thomas' Colleg) ............................ 341 P.A. Dananjaya (Richmond College) ........................... 285 Hareen Buddhila (St. Aloysius College) ...................... 277 Sammu Ashan (Ananda College) ............................... 204 Pasindu Sooriyabandara (Royal College) .................... 171 Asel Sigera (Ananda College) .................................... 167 Sanjula Abeywickrama (Isipathana College) .............. 129 Jehan Daniel (St. Joseph's College) ........................... 102 Lasith Udage (St. Mary's Kegalle) ................................ 57 Avishka Perera (Nalanda College) ................................ 55 Naveen Gunawardana (Thurstan College) .................... 53 Dineth Madurawala (St. Joseph's College) .................. 25 Thilina Perera (Wesley College) ................................... 24 Shanogeeth Shanmuganathan (Trinity College) ........... 24 Salith Fernando (St. Anthony's Wattala) ...................... 17 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 rec e ived 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. Kavindu Gimhana (Ananda College) ............................. 15 Pathum Nissanka (Isipathana College) ......................... 14 Thilina Nemesh (Prince of Wales') ............................... 10 Avishka Fernando (St. Sebastian's Moratuwa) .............. 8

Emerging Schools

Pulitha Yasas (Sri Sumangala Panadura) .................. 2180 Gimhana Dhanushka (Piliyandala Central) .................. 130 Sahan Perera (Christ King Pannipitiya) ....................... 109 Imesh Basnayake (St. Peter's Gampaha) ................... 105 Nipuna Ransika (P. de S. Kularatne MV) ....................... 91 Methushan Thilina (Kegalu Vidyalaya) ......................... 83 Raveen Yasas (Devapathiraja Rathgama) ..................... 42 Hirusha Mendis (Siddartha Central Balapitiya) ............ 32 Suminda Lakshan (De La Salle Mutwal) ....................... 16 Tissara Dilshan Jayananda (National School Polonnaruwa) ..................................... 8 Shrushee Adhishtana (St. Bernadette Kurunegala) ........ 1

International Schools

Shimraz Shahil (Alethea International) ....................... 132 Tariq Haniff (Wycherley International) ........................... 1

1. Poornima Samarasinghe, 41/D, Visakha Mawatha, Pugoda, 2. Sunimal Fernando, 123/5, Uyana Road, Lunawa, Moratuwa, 3. Kenula Dinadith, 22/25 1-1, Thudalwella First Lane, Richmond Hill Road, Galle, 4. Srimathi Padmalatha, 33, Tichborne Place, Colombo 10.