Who is June's hero of the month?
After being a day late with June's pillock, I'm a day late with the monthly Hero poll. Usual rules, who has most impressed you in the past few weeks. If I missed any obvious ones let me know.
James Anderson For his career-best bowling figures of seven for 43 at Trent Bridge against New Zealand, including taking the first six wickets to fall, the best figures by anyone this year. When he is on form, Anderson is one of the best medium-fast bowlers around, shame it happens so rarely.
Ravi Bopara Going back to the start of the month and Bopara, who was nominated as one of last month's pillocks, returned to form by making 201 not out off 138 balls as Essex won their Friends Provident quarter-final, the eighth highest score in one-day cricket.
Jane McGrath Not a cricketer but an ever-present on the cricket circuit and certainly the cricketing world mourned when they learnt that the wife of Glenn McGrath had lost her battle with cancer.
Graham Napier For rising from obscurity to smite 152 runs in a Twenty20 match against Sussex, hitting a world record 16 sixes. And yes I am being indulgent by including two Essex players.
Kevin Pietersen For his two switch-hit sixes against Scott Styris at Durham in his first home one-day hundred. The rest of the series may have been frustrating for him, but those two strokes brought the competition to life.
Kumar Sangakkara For scoring three hundreds in his past four one-day international innings in the Asia Cup - even if he got a duck in the other innings of that stretch against the UAE
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