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Schoolboy Cricketer Of The Year Award is an award given to school cricketers in Sri Lanka. It was first awarded by the patronage of Warner-Hudunut Ltd in 1978 and The Sunday Observer newspaper by Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Limited has been sponsoring the award since 1979 in collaboration with other companies such as Mobitel (Sri Lanka), Bata Shoes, and Lakspray. So far seven players have been able to win the award twice. Almost all the players that have won this awards went on to join the Sri Lanka national cricket team.[1]

List of players to win the 'Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year' award
Year Player Name School Award Sponsor Remarks
1975 Anura Ranasinghe Nalanda College, Colombo Captain of Sri Lanka U19 team.
1976 Anura Ranasinghe Nalanda College, Colombo
1978 Ranjan Madugalle Royal College, Colombo

Warner-Hudnut Limited

Test Cricket captain of Sri Lanka 1987-1988
1979 Ranjan Madugalle Royal College, Colombo

Observer

1980 Arjuna Ranatunga Ananda College

Observer

Test and ODI Cricket captain of Sri Lanka 1989-1999. Sri Lanka won the 1996 Cricket World Cup under his captaincy.
1981 Rohan Buultjiens St. Peter's College, Bambalapitiya

Observer

1982 Arjuna Ranatunga Ananda College

Observer

1983 Roshan Mahanama Nalanda College

Observer

Captained the ODI team for two matches in 1994. International Cricket Council match referee 2004 -2009.
1984 Roshan Mahanama Nalanda College

Observer

He is the first man to have stood as a match referee in a day-night test match in Test history.[2]
1985 Asanka Gurusinha Nalanda College

Observer

1986 Roshan Jurangpathy Royal College, Colombo

Observer

1987 Rohan Weerakkody Saint Joseph's College, Colombo

Observer

1988 Sanjeeva Ranatunga Ananda College

Observer

1989 Kumar Dharmasena Nalanda College

Observer

1990 Marvan Atapattu Ananda College

Observer

1991 Muttiah Muralitharan St. Anthony's College, Kandy

Observer

1992 Sajith Fernando St. Anthony's College, Kandy

Observer

1993 Naveed Nawaz

Observer

1994 Thilan Samaraweera Ananda College

Observer

1995 Thilan Samaraweera Ananda College

Observer

1996 Nimesh Perera St. Sebastian's College, Moratuwa

Observer

1997 Chinthaka Jayasinghe Dharmapala Vidyalaya

Observer, Bata

1998 Pradeep Hewage St. Benedict's College, Colombo

Observer

1999 Muthumudalige Pushpakumara Ananda College

Observer

2000 Kaushalya Weeraratne Trinity College, Kandy

Observer

2001 Kaushal Lokuarachchi St Peter's College, Colombo

Observer

2002 Sahan Wijeratne Prince of Wales' College, Moratuwa

Observer

2003 Farveez Maharoof Wesley College, Colombo

Observer

Captain of Sri Lanka U19 team.
2004 Lahiru Peiris St Peter's College, Colombo

Observer

2005 Lahiru Peiris St Peter's College, Colombo

Observer

2006 Gihan Rupasinghe Nalanda College

Observer

2007 Malith Gunathilake Ananda College

Observer

2008 Umesh Karunarathne Thurstan College

Observer

2009 Dinesh Chandimal Ananda College

Observer

Former Test, ODI, and T20I Captain. Also captained Sri Lanka in Hong-Kong-Sixes Tournament, and T10 Cricket League
2010 Bhanuka Rajapaksa Royal College, Colombo

Observer, Mobitel

2011 Bhanuka Rajapaksa Royal College, Colombo

Observer, Mobitel

2012

Niroshan Dickwella

Trinity College, Kandy

Observer, Mobitel

Current Test, ODI, and T20 Vice Captain
2013

Kusal Mendis

Prince of Wales' College, Moratuwa

Observer, Mobitel

2014

Sadeera Samarawickrama

Saint Joseph's College, Colombo

Observer, Mobitel

2015

Charith Asalanka

Richmond College, Galle

Observer, Mobitel

2016

Charith Asalanka

Richmond College, Galle

Bata, Observer, Mobitel

2017

Nipun Ransika

P de S Kularatne Vidyalaya, Ambalangoda

Observer, Mobitel,

2018

Hasitha Boyagoda

Trinity College, Kandy

Mobitel, Observer

References

  1. ^ "Sri Lanka team studded with three Observer-Mobitel Schoolboy Cricketers". Daily News. Retrieved 2018-02-18.
  2. ^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roshan_Mahanama