The ‘Mother of All Shows’ begins

The tradition established will be kept as Sri Lanka’s first ever award show for schoolboy cricketers, which has produced many champion Sri Lanka cricketers, is back to continue its role in fostering school cricket.

The countdown to the 34th Observer-Mobitel Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2012 event begins today with the voting for the Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year All-Island and Outstation contests. Sri Lanka Tele com Mobitel, Sri Lanka’s national mobile communication network, is the proud sponsor of the prestigious event for the fifth consecutive year.

The Sunday Observer launched the Observer Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year contest in 1979 at a time when there wasn’t a single awards ceremony to recognise the talents of schoolboy cricketers.

Our initiative has produced fruitful results as the Observer Schoolboy Cricketer has been instrumental in showcasing some of the top cricketers that Sri Lanka has ever produced, including Ranjan Madugalle, Arjuna Ranatunga, Muttiah Muralitharan, Sanath Jayasuriya, Roshan Mahanama and Marvan Atapattu.

More and more school cricket awards shows have emerged in recent times, following our footsteps though the Observer-Mobitel Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year continues to remain as the ‘Mother of All Shows’.

See page 32 for full details and voting coupons.