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Leg spinner Dellon Peiris of S. Thomas’ College continues to dominate the All-Island Schools category, while surpassing the landmark of 20,000 votes, as the Dialog 4G-the Sunday Times Most Popular Schoolboy/Schoolgirl Cricketer of the Year 2018 competition reaches the end of its 17th week.
While Dellon earned that feat, the leader of the Emerging Schools segment, Denuwan Perera of Carey College, continued his stranglehold for yet another week while reaching the milestone of 10,000 votes.
Maintaining his pace, Dellon received the highest number of combined votes with a tally of 1,798, with his total reaching 20,529 votes. He leads Sachin Silva by 8,024, improving on last week’s margin. Sachin of St. Peter’s College added 1,130 combined votes while accumulating a total of 12,505 votes. Although both top contenders stand far ahead of the rest, Dellon is way ahead of Sachin.
Third in line is Vihan Gunasekara of D.S. Senanayake College who looks comfortable with 4,656 votes, despite adding 31 combined votes. Ananda College skipper Asel Sigera follows in at fourth with Kavin Peiris of Lumbini College standing in fifth position.
In the Emerging Schools category, the leader added 1,002 combined votes to take his total to 10,614. He leads second-placed Kenula Gunaratne of St. Aloysius College Ratnapura by 4,041 votes. Kenula’s total reached 6,573 with the addition of 702 combined votes.
Sonara Karunathunga of Ananda Sasthralaya follows in at third with 4,401 votes, with the addition of 413 combined votes last week. Thimira Malshan, also of Ananda Sasthralaya, is in fourth place while Heshan Madushanka of Piliyandala Central remains fifth.
Harshitha Samarawickrama of Anula Vidyalaya has picked up her pace this week after slowing down during last week, as she continues to lead the Girls’ category. Her count is currently 6,244 votes and she added 787 combined votes last week.
Pabasara Ranabahu of Rathnavali Girls’ School Gampaha took her tally to 4,979 votes after adding 510 combined votes. Harshitha’s lead against Pabasara has improved to 1,265. Kaveesha Dilhani of Devapathiraja MV, Rathgama and Ruwini Nandasena of St. Joseph’s Girls School are the other two contenders on the list.
Coupons and online votes
Coupons will be published in the two English dailies the Daily Mirror and the Daily FT, and the two Sinhala dailies Daily Lankadeepa and Ada, and Sinhala weekend newspaper Deshaya, with the deadline set to arrive after 11 more weekends. Readers can vote for their favourite schoolboy or schoolgirl cricketer and take them to the winning post during this period.
Dialog Axiata’s online system to vote for the Most Popular Cricketer (www.dialog.lk/cricket) will allow voting until 5 April 2018.
Both coupon votes and online votes will be counted on a weekly basis and the official results will be published in the five newspapers and their websites.
The deadline for coupons and online votes will be every Thursday afternoon. Online votes received after the weekly cut-off period will be counted for the next week, while for coupons only those numbered for the particular week will be taken into account. This week’s digital voting count was monitored and approved by auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Results: Week 17
All-Island Schools
Emerging Schools
Girls’ School
