Royalist Shavendra regains top slot

Shavendra Edirisuriya of Royal College, Colombo and Malinda Samarasekara of Maris Stella College, Negombo regained the top slots after another enthusiastic week of voting at the Observer-Mobitel Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year most popular contests.

With only a month away from the grand finale, there has been greater interest and a keen battle for the most popular ‘crowns’ in Sri Lanka’s first ever schools cricket awards presentation hosted by the Sunday Observer and sponsored by Sri Lanka’s premier mobile service provider - SLT Mobitel.

Edirisuriya polled 5,640 votes last week to increase his tally to 85,701 and displaced his team mate Kithruwan Vithanage from the top slot in the Observer-Mobitel Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year All-Island contest.

Vithanage (85,388), who led until last week, dropped to third place after securing 4,339 fresh votes.

Chathura Peiris of St.Peter’s College moved a step forward to take second place with 85,499 votes - 202 votes behind the leader Edirisuriya.

There is a similar close tussle for supremacy in the Observer-Mobitel Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year Outstation contest with Maristonian Samarasekera polling 69,001 votes to take the lead. He displaced last week’s leader N. Rajaguru of Nugawela Central to second place with 68,887 votes. K. Wickremarachchi of Gamini MV, Bentota remains in third place with 68,802 votes.