The Cricketer is highlighting stories of compassion, kindness and creativity in the cricket world during the coronavirus crisis. The results are in for Club Hero, Pro Hero, Fundraising Hero, Social Media Hero and Young Hero. Find out more...
The stories have been told. The votes have been cast. The results have been verified.
Now it's time to reveal the winners of The Cricketer's Lockdown Heroes awards.
Over the course of 30 days in May, we received in excess of 400 nominations across our five categories - Club Hero, Pro Hero, Fundraising Hero, Social Media Hero, and Young Hero - highlighting the incredible contributions of cricketers of ages, from across the UK, during lockdown.
During June, voting was open to the public, and in July the process was passed on to our judging panel - with an equal 50 per cent weighting given to the two.
"It has been quite a moving and life-affirming experience running the nominations, and hearing the stories of the good that has been done in, by and for the community during this difficult summer," digital editor Sam Morshead said.
"While there had to be a winner in each category, it should be noted that everyone who was nominated made a real difference to someone at an incredibly harsh time for cricket - and all the stories will be retained on thecricketer.com to mark those efforts."
You can read full stories on each of our winners, as well as find links to the nominee list for all five categories, below...
THE WINNERS
Club Hero: Jon Speller, Wimbledon CC
Read Jon's story here
See the full Club Hero nominee list here
Pro Hero: Olly Hannon-Dalby, Warwickshire CCC
Read Olly's story here
See the full Pro Hero nominee list here
Fundraising Hero: Dan Manders
Read Dan's story here
See the full Fundraising Hero nominee list here
Young Hero: Lucy Axcell & Katie Sturgess
Read Lucy and Katie's story here
See the full Young Hero nominee list here
Social Media Hero: Carl Holding, Twitter coin toss
Read Carls' story here
See the full Social Media Hero nominee list here
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