Best team Northern Province. Captain of
St.John�s College, Jaffna receiving the team award from Director
Legal ANCL Sirimevan Dias Piyasena. Emeric Fernando, Director Finance,
ANCL (Left) applauds
Best team Western Province. Captain of Lumbini
College receiving the team award from Emeric Fernando, Director
Finance ANCL.
Best School team NWP (runner-up). The captain of
Joseph Vaz College ,Wennappuwa receiving the team award from CEO
Mobitel Ranjth Rubasinghe. is Kamal Wijesuriya Senior Deputy GM Printing
and Maintenance ANCL is also in the picture.
Best team NWP Maliyadeva College, Kurunegala
captain receives the team award from Dilshan de Silva, secretary
SLSCA.
Best tean Uva Province. Captain of St.Thomas�
College, Bandarawela receiving the team award from Director, Mobitel,
Kapila Geeganage.
Best team Central Province. Captain of
Dharmaraja College, Kandy receiving the team award from Director
Finance, ANCL, Emeric Fernando.
Best team NCP.Anuradhapura Central captain
receiving the team award from Dilshan de Silva, Secretary, SLSCA.
Best Team Sabaragamuwa Province. Captain of St.Mary�s College,
Kegalle receiving his team award from Kamal Wijesuriya, Senior
Deputy GM, Printing and Maintenance ANCL.
Best team runner-up NWP. St.Sebastian�s College,
Katuneriya captain receiving the team award from Sujeeva Jayatileka
AGM Sales and Distribution, ANCL. Ranjith Rubasinghe CEO Mobitel is on
his right.
Clifford Richards and Sonali Perera
enthralled the audience.
Iraj performing
Channa Wickremasinghe dancers.
Pix. Thilak Perera,
Vipula Amarasinghe and
Lalith .C. Gamage
Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited and the Observer should be complemented for keeping the show going for all these years. Sponsors are essential to keep the show going. May the show continue for many years to come.
In the past, most of the winners of the top awards came from Colombo and its suburbs, but now, the outstation schools have come in a big way and it is a positive sign for the game.
Ranjan Madugalle ICC Chief Match Referee & Former Sri Lanka captain
It is the dream of any schoolboy cricketer to win the Observer Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year award. It's great for the Sunday Observer in continuing the Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year Contest for the 31st year from 1979 to encourage the budding schoolboy cricketers. I was particularly happy to see that the Northern Province will join up with the others in the competitions at the contest.
I am happy at the improvement of outstation cricket as the
game has spread far and wide in the country. Many Sri Lankan cricketing giants
of the past and the present are those who have either won the prestigious and
coveted Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year Award or one of the many awards
presented at the contest.
