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Flashback: Last year’s winner Hasitha Boyagoda of Trinity College receiving the Observer-Mobitel Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year trophy from chief guest and winner of the inaugural event 40 years ago, Ranjan Madugalle, in the presence of SLSCA and Lake House officials including Sunday Observer editor Dharisha Bastians
Who will be the winner this time?
The much looked forward to event in Sri Lanka’s schools sports calendar – the latest segment of the Observer-Mobitel Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2019, will be held at the Grand Ballroom of the Colombo Hilton on Friday (20) commencing 5.30 p.m.Every year, thousands of schoolboy cricketers and their supporters eagerly look forward to this event. This event has been the...
2019-09-14 18:30:00
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Award winners who played for Sri Lanka
Ranatunga reached immortality in leadershipSri Lanka’s World Cup-winning captain Arjuna Ranatunga was first ever to win the Observer Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year title twice in 1980 and 1982.A reliable middle order batsman who had aggregated 5,105 runs including four centuries and 38 fifties and captured 16 wickets in 93 Tests, Ranatunga said winning the Observer...
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Dasun Shanaka: Puts his hand up to captain Sri Lanka in Pakistan
Bombing-hit Dasun Shanaka in brave Sri Lanka leadership
All-rounder Dasun Shanaka may have escaped a deadly bombing at his church on Easter Sunday, but the pinch hitter who was mentally scarred will lead a new look Sri Lanka T20 cricket team on a tour of Pakistan later this month after several so-called “senior super stars” backed out over fears of insecurity.Shanaka, a parishioner at St. Sebastian’s Church in Negombo, skipped...
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LETTERS
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