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| Sunday, 3 April 2005 |
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OBSERVER-BATA cricket contests end on April 4 : Peiris snatches lead, gains majority of 8,628 votes in All-Island Contest Royalist Dulanjaya Wijeratne's lead in the Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year All Island Contest has been confined to only one week, as Peterite Lahiru - last year's winner of the title, received tremendous support from his fans and polled 14,016 votes from Coupon No. 9 to have an eye-catching 24,577 votes at the end of count number 9 of the OBSERVER-BATA Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year All-Island Contest. Peiris has now gathered a lead of 8,628 votes in the contest. Wijeratne drops down to second spot from the top slot he occupied. After the penultimate count, Wijeratne has 15,949 votes while Damith Gunaratne of D. S. Senanayake College is third with 14,903 votes. There are no other changes in the voting in the All-Island Contest in Coupon No. 9 from the previous week. There are no significant changes in the voting in the Outstation Contest in the penultimate week's voting and St. Thomas' Kotte's Andy Solomons leads with 9,201 votes with Mohammed Shakir of Azhar College, Akurana in second place with 4,362 votes and E. V. Gangoda of Vidyartha, Kandy third with 3,887 votes. T. M. Siriwardena of Kalutara M.V. who was seventh from coupon No. 8 moves up two places and his fifth 2,179 votes. |
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