Sunday Observer/Mobitel Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer Of The Year :

Struggle for leadership on: Now Samarasinghe takes over from Pathirana

The intense struggle for the first place continued between Royalists Randev Pathirana (26,104) and Harith Samarasinghe (26,379) who took the first place with a majority of 275 votes at the end of count number 9 in the Sunday Observer/Mobitel Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer Of The Year Contest.

Both Samarasinghe and Pathirana were key members for Royal this season and it is interesting to see as to who will win the race. There were no changes in the 'Gold' competition for schools participating in the SLSCA division two tournament with St. Thomas', Matara's Lasith Lakshan (17,887) maintaining his last week's lead over Tharaka Dananjaya (16,903) of Carey with a lead of 984 votes.

In the Silver category for schools playing in division three last week's winner Zaafi zarook of Vidyaloka, Galle) dropped to the second place with Devapathiraja's Dilshan Kanchana taking the first place with 15-649 votes. Mohammed Ziras of Madeena MV, Kandy climbed to the 5th position after being peaced 7th last week.