Selectors meet to finalise winners

The selections of the outstanding award winners of the Observer-Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2014 was held at the Galadari Hotel last week under the patronage of the Sri Lanka Schools Cricket Association (SLSCA), Sri Lanka Cricket Umpires and Scorers Association and cricket umpires associations of the Southern Province and Central Province.

Former Sri Lanka captain and national selector Hashan Tillakaratne and the President of the SLSCA and principal of Ananda College Kithsiri Liyanagama were the co-chairmen of the special selection panel who picked the winners. This will be the 36th successive year that the Sunday Observer is organising Sri Lanka’s premier schools cricket awards show.

Sri Lanka’s national mobile service provider - SLT Mobitel is the proud sponsor of the Mega Show which rewards Sri Lanka’s budding schoolboy cricketers.

The winners were picked strictly on merit, based on their performance during the 2013/14 inter-school cricket season. Batsman.Com, the popular cricket news website headed by Kumara Gamhewa, provided logistical support in the selections with statistical data.