{"id":101037,"date":"2022-10-04T05:50:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T05:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=101037"},"modified":"2022-10-04T05:55:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T05:55:59","slug":"wellalage-lives-up-to-his-image-by-dinesh-weerawansa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wellalage-lives-up-to-his-image-by-dinesh-weerawansa\/","title":{"rendered":"Wellalage lives up to his image &#8211; By Dinesh Weerawansa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Wellalage lives up to his image &#8211; <span style=\"color: #333399;\">By Dinesh Weerawansa<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_101038\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101038\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-101038 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Wellalage-e1664861779455.jpg\" alt=\"Wellalage\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-101038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Farveez Maharoof of Wesley won the Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year award 2003 and also won the Best Batsman All-Island award <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Source :\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sundayobserver.lk\/2022\/10\/02\/sports\/wellalage-lives-his-image\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sundayobserver<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Promising Dunith Wellalage seems to be the next rich contribution to Sri Lanka cricket from St. Joseph\u2019s College, Colombo after former Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Wellalage emerged the Observer SLT Mobitel Most Popular Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 2022. Having completed a superb final season for St. Joseph\u2019s, he climbed to the top most level, while still being a 19-plus schoolboy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Prior to making his Test debut for Sri Lanka in July this year, young Wellalage captained Sri Lanka Under-19 with distension. When the voting for the most popular contests concluded a fortnight ago, Wellalage and Chushadi Kaushalya of Dharmapala College, Pannipitiya headed the respective Observer SLT Mobitel Most Popular Schoolboy and Schoolgirl Cricketers of the Year 2022 with convincing margins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Dunith Nethmika Wellalage was born on January 9, 2003 in Colombo. After having his initial junior career at St. Sebastian\u2019s College, Moratuwa, he played his junior and first X1 cricket at St. Joseph\u2019s College, Colombo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101040 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/slt.jpg\" alt=\"slt\" width=\"574\" height=\"115\" \/>A penetrative left-arm leg spinner and a useful left-hand batsman Wellalage is widely considered as future Sri Lanka captain material though he has only played in just a solitary Test. But he has already proved his credentials at Sri Lanka Under-19 level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">He made his Test debut in July 2022, in the second Test against Pakistan at the Galle International Stadium, scoring 11 and 18. Wellalage went wicketless but Sri Lanka won the match by 246 runs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">He has already played five One Day Internationals and six T20 Internationals for Sri Lanka, showing early promise. He has captured nine wickets in ODIs with a career best 3 for 42. In six T20Is, he has five scalps with a top spell of 2 for 32.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The 19-year-old bowling all-rounder proved his potential at the recently concluded tournaments as well as Internationals. He first proved his talent at school level and later became the Sri Lanka Under-19 captain at the under 19 World Cup in the West Indies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">In next to no time after the Youth World Cup, the national selectors considered the young cricketer for the National Super League cricket tournament after which he conveniently booked his place in the Sri Lanka Emerging team for the England tour. He then represented Sri Lanka \u2018A \u2018 against Australia \u2018A\u2019 during their two ODIs at the SSC ground.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">After representing the Sri Lanka \u2018A\u2019 team, Wellalage was called for national duty &#8211; to play for Sri Lanka and made his debut ODI at Pallekele.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">His father &#8211; Suranga Wellalage, captained Prince of Wales in 1991 and later turned out for Moratuwa SC, Sebastianites and Kurunegala YCC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Going down memory lane on past Observer Schoolboy Cricketers, we find one of the rare Wesley cricketers who has made his school proud &#8211; Farveez Maharoof. He won the Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year award 2003 and also won the Best Batsman All-Island award.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The former Wesley star all-rounder has gone through a great cricket career. While playing for Wesley College, he captained the Sri Lanka Under-19 in the World Cup, opening the bowling and batting middle-order.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Mohamed Farveez Maharoof, born on September 7, 1984, in Colombo, made his first impression in the 2004 Under-19 World Cup, captaining the Sri Lankan team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">He enjoyed a prolific school career for Wesley College, with a highest score of 243 and best bowling figures of 8 for 20. An all-rounder, he made his Test debut in 2004. He has featured more frequently in ODIs and has played for Sri Lanka since 2004.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The Observer-Mobitel Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year contest has produced a group of elite cricketers who have engraved their names in Sri Lanka cricket history in letters of gold. The first recipient of the coveted title, Ranjan Senerath Madugalle not only reached the pinnacle of his career as a cricketer but also progressed to captain Sri Lanka and also reached the very top as an official by becoming the Chief ICC Match Referee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The contest, which began as an unofficial one in 1978, was made official the following year and is getting bigger and broader yearly as it has explored the talent in the rural areas which has given those cricketers the opportunities to be on par, or even become better than the players representing Colombo schools judging by the number of players emerging from the rural schools who have stamped their class as top players.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The 1978 Sunday Observer Schoolboy Cricketer of The Year Contest was a significant one, though it was held in the outstation and not counted in the series.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101039 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/dunith-Wellalage.jpg\" alt=\"dunith Wellalage\" width=\"325\" height=\"449\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The contest was held at the Galle Esplanade for the first time with a view to promoting the game in the outstation. It was quite appropriate in having the show in Galle as the Outstation Schoolboy Cricketer of that year was Upul Sumathipala from Mahinda College, Galle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Madugalle, now the ICC\u2019s chief match referee and hailing from Royal College, Colombo won the 1978 contest and was also adjudged the winner in the following year (1979) from which the Observer Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year show formally started at Nawarangahala.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">In both the years St. Sebastian\u2019s College cricketer Roger Wijesuriya was the runner-up. Madugalle and Wijesuriya had prolific records representing their respective schools which resulted in them finding places in the Sri Lanka World Cup team in 1979 in England.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Madugalle who led an unbeaten Royal team, in addition to winning the main award (Schoolboy Cricketer), was also picked as the Best Captain and Best Batsman and runner-up in the Best Fielder category after a highly successful season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">A panel of umpires comprising Camillus Perera (Chairman), Vernon Tissera, Gilbert Perera, Allan Felsinger and KT Ponnabalam picked the winners at the Colombo Cricket Club (CCC) pavilion in 1978.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The shortlisted contestants for the Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year 1978 were Prasanna Amarasinghe (Ananda), Ranjan Madugalle (Royal), Shammy Rajendra (Wesley), Roger Wijesuriya (St.Sebastian\u2019s) and Selvaraj Dinesh (Trinity).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Ananda captain Arjuna Ranatunga, who won the title after Madugalle in 1980, is another great Sri Lanka cricketer who steered the Sri Lanka national team to conquer cricket\u2019s \u2018Mount Everest\u2019 in world cricket.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Ranatunga, who became the First Schoolboy Cricketer to win the Mega Award twice, captained Sri Lanka\u2019s World Cup winning team in 1996.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The galaxy of stars who have illuminated Lankan cricket skies and most of them emerged through the Observer-Mobitel Schoolboy Cricketer contest include the world\u2019s highest Test wicket taker Muttiah Muralitharan, the Most Valuable Player award winner in the 1996 World Cup tournament Sanath Jayasuriya (outstation title), former Sri Lanka captain and ex-national coach Marvan Atapattu (1990), former Sri Lanka captain and ex-ICC Match Referee Roshan Mahanama, former Sri Lanka player cum 1996 World Cup star Asanka Gurusinha, former Sri Lanka player turned ICC Elite Panel Umpire Kumara Dharmasena and ex Sri Lanka Test batsman Thilan Samaraweera (1994 and 1995).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Former captain Dinesh Chandimal (Ananda &#8211; 2009), Bhanuka Rajapakse (Royal \u2013 2010 and 2011), Niroshan Dickwella, (Trinity \u2013 2012), Kusal Mendis (Prince of Wales &#8211; 2013) and Charith Asalanka (Richmond \u2013 2015 and 2016) are some of the recent past Observer SLT Mobitel Schoolboy Cricketers winners who have sported the Sri Lankan cap.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Roshan Jurangpathy was the second Royalist to win the Observer Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year title and play Test cricket after Madugalle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">As a teenager, Jurangpathy had shown great promise but the then selectors gave him only a couple of chances which was not fair considering his immense talent. 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