CEAT Peoples Player of the Year:
Only six days left for grand ceremony
Only six days left for the grand ceremony which awards the CEAT
Peoples Player of the Year 2011. Five of Sri Lanka’s cricketing heroes
have emerged as the ‘top scorers’ for the top award which one will
receive on November 29.
More than 11,500 votes had been cast online and via SMS, and five
contenders for the award had emerged. They were, in random order, the
country’s elegant and eloquent top order batsman Kumar Sangakkara,
national captain Tillakaratne Dilshan, slinger Lasith Malinga, vice
captain Angelo Mathews and the classy Mahela Jayawardene.
Voting for the 2011 CEAT Peoples Player of the Year ends on November
25.
The 100 cricketers on contract with Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) are
eligible to receive votes for this award, which will be one of the
highlights of the third edition of the annual CEAT Sri Lanka Cricket
Awards. Votes can be cast via SMS on five mobile networks -Dialog,
Etisalat, Mobitel, Hutch and Airtel and by employing the CDMA services
of Lanka Bell, Suntel and SLT City Link. Voters should type CEAT (space)
name of the cricketer and send to 6797 to participate.
Online voting can be done through a dedicated website
www.ceatsrilankacricketawards.com and via facebook
(www.facebook.com/ceatsrilankacricketawards).
As a special reward from CEAT Sri Lanka, 10 lucky winners drawn from
the voters will be presented with tickets to the CEAT Sri Lanka Cricket
Awards gala at the Water’s Edge at the conclusion of the voting period.
Tillakaratne Dilshan won the CEAT peoples player of the year award in
2009 while in 2010 this accolade was won by Kumar Sangakkara.
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