Calling all past award winners

The Observer Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year contest, sponsored by SLT Mobitel for the sixth successive year, will celebrate its 35th anniversary this year.

The Sunday Observer, Sri Lanka’s flagship English newspaper with the largest circulation, which launched the event at a time when there wasn’t a single award show or tournament in school cricket way back in 1978/79, hopes to bring all past award winners under one umbrella to seek their views and ideas to make it even more meaningful.

All past award winners who had won the Observer Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year and the most popular titles, along with those who had won awards for the best batsman, best bowler, best all-rounder and best fielder under the all-island and outstation categories are kindly requested to contact us immediately with their contact details and awards won. SMS +94777270027 or E-mail to [email protected]

Meanwhile, the past few weeks of voting in the most popular categories of the 35th Observer-Mobitel Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year contests have turned out to be a keen tussle for supremacy with more votes pouring in for frontrunners.

The Sunday Observer is working in close collaboration with the Sri Lanka Schools Cricket Association, the Umpires Associations, Sri Lanka Cricket and the SLC national selectors to hold the final review meeting with the season’s performances to select this year’s award winners.

The final selections will be made early next month.