Sajeeva Salgado (Thurstan) and Angelo Jayasinghe (Maris Stella) hit the top

Thurstan College captain Sajeeva Salgado who had a successful season this year and his teammate Ashan Wanigaratne ware placed first and second respectively at the end of Count Number 4, ousting Josephian Sadeera Samarawickrema to the third place in the Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer All Island Contest.

Salgado polled 8,431 votes to Samarawickrema's 7,863. While Wanigaratne also from Thurstan College who was placed third last week, was placed second with 8,023 votes. In the Outstation category, Maris Stella's Angelo Jayasinghe who was second last week, was placed first with 4,762 votes pushing last week's winner Ruwan Bandara of Vidyartha College, Kandy to second position with 4,502 votes.