John Fogarty: Who are the July hurling All-Stars?

Your annual reminder of the subjective yet necessary exercise of picking All-Stars. So if the best hurling 15 of 2022 were to be picked tomorrow, what would the team look like?

HURLER OF THE YEAR?: Limerick's Diarmaid Byrnes. 

1 Eoin Murphy (Kilkenny): Slightly fortunate to be chosen ahead of Nickie Quaid last year but is a head and neck ahead of the Limerick goalkeeper at the moment. The best in the business.

2 Seán Finn (Limerick): Mikey Butler and Paul Flanagan have to be considered and yet Finn looks as formidable as ever. His resilience in the closing stages of Sunday’s semi-final was typical.