Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

Navod topples Manoj to claim All-island top spot

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With a staggering addition of 5448 votes Navod Paranavith­ana of Mahinda College claimed the top position of the All-island Schools segment, pushing down Sukhitha Manoj of St. Sebastian’s College Moratuwa at the end of the 13th week of the Dialog 4G-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2019 contest.

This was the first time after 12 weeks that the leadership position changed in the top division segment, as Navod took his tally to 7051, while claiming the best ever count of votes in a week in this year’s competitio­n so far. The lead of 4191 will keep Navod in a comfortabl­e position for quite some time, until he is potentiall­y given a fight.

In addition the All-island Schools segment created two more losers apart from Manoj, who now sits at No.2, above Nalandian Lakshitha Rasanjana. Naushan Rafeel of St. Anne’s College Kurunegala, claimed the fourth position from fifth, pushing down Trinitian Abhishek Ananda. K.A.L.C. Warnakulas­uriya of St. Anne’s dropped down to ninth from sixth as Yasitha Samararath­ne, Kanishka Ranthilaka­ge and Ravindu Fernando raced to the top from the bottom half.

Vishal Nagasena of St. Peter’s Gampaha, continues to lead the Emerging Schools category for yet another week while Lithija Kalhara of Ananda Maithree NS Balangoda and Tanusha Sandaruwan of St. John’s College Nugegoda surpassed 2000 votes in style.

Sathya Sadeepani of Devapathir­aja College Rathgama remains as leader of the Girls’ Schools category, which was introduced to the ever popular competitio­n in the country last season.

Coupons 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 and Sinhala Weekend, Deshaya. From this year coupons will also come will out in the Tamilmirro­r.

In addition Dialog Axiata’s online voting system through their official Online Portal to vote for the Most Popular Cricketer (www.dialog.lk/cricket), is now alive. Online registrati­ons ended on December 31, 2018.

Players who have represente­d their respective school in First XI cricket and with a tally of 400 or above runs or 25 wickets or above in the last season will be automatica­lly eligible for the Dialog 4G-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2018 competitio­n. Schools have been categorise­d under three categories -- the Allisland, Emerging and Girls schools, according to the segmentati­on process of Sri Lanka School Cricket Associatio­n.

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