Silver Stumps - the Over 60s/70s Cricket Podcast

Grant is back and brings with him a new meaning of ‘GOAT’ - Game Over Before Tea!  And that’s how a lot of matches were this week!  Come on folks we need some edge of the seat finishes to fill the grounds!  We’re still keen to know about female players who have played in the O60s or O70s county championship competitions and if any brothers are currently playing either for the same or different cou...

Another action packed week of O60s and O70s county championship cricket Plus John Evans looks ahead to the O70s England Trials in June in readiness for defending the Silver Ashes and the O70s World Cup at the start of 2026 Chris Dennis is looking for someone to replace him on the National back of house team Paul Dawkins tells how he got Cornwall O70s underway You can find all the results, fixtures...

All divisions of the O60s and O70s county cricket championships were in action this week We pick out the highlights of what happened and we look at how the England O60s two trial matches went You can find all the results, fixtures and league tables for the O60s and O70s 2025 County Championship here: https://seniorscountychampionship.play-cricket.com/Matches?tab=Fixture The scorecards for England...

The O60s and O70s county cricket championships are underway with matches in the O60s 1st and 2nd XI competitions and the O70s 2nd and 3rd XI competitions. We review what happened including the O60s Div 2 Cup Final carried over from 2024 between Wales and Oxfordshire. One week in and we’ve already seen some incredible performances including in O60s Div 1 North a match featuring two massive hundreds...

Its April 25th and next week the O60s and O70s county championships begin with matches in the 60s 1st and 2nd XI competitions and the O70s 2nd and 3rd XI competitions We begin the episode with a little look back on what happened in 2024 and we review two carried over finals that have been played this week - the O60s 1st XI Vase Final and the O60s 2nd XI Bowl Final In our look ahead to 2025 season...

The Malta Seniors Cricket Festival took place between the 28th of March and the 5th of April at the Marsa sports club under the direction of tournament, founder and director Frank Spiteri and tournament referee Barrie Burns. Eight teams took part in this event which has been going since 2018 and not only provides a fantastic opportunity to play pre-season warm weather cricket but also raises not i...

Mike Hayden is the captain of Wales O60s 1st XI. In March the team took part in a tournament in Cape Town alongside Zimbabwe (who went unbeaten and won the event), two evenly matched teams from South Africa, USA and USA A. Wales finished 3rd.  We talk to Mike about the tournament which involved playing six matches in eight days and how to manage that workload when most players are used to playing...

Paul Farbrace is the Director of Cricket for Sussex County Cricket Club as well as being a Vice-President of the Seniors County Cricket Championship  Paul makes a welcome return to the podcast. Since we first talked in April 2024 Paul has led Sussex to the County Championship Division Two Championship and the T20 Blast Finals day. We catch up with Paul on his ambitions for Sussex in 2025, his thou...

Darryl Woods wears numerous cricket and sports hats including heading up Oxfordshire Cricket Seniors , being an Non-Executive Director on the Oxfordshire Cricket Board as well as being a Cricket Coach and YouTuber via his sports channel Ox Sports Unleashed And now England O60s trialist!  We enjoyed talking to Darryl about the forthcoming trial matches, his work as a cricket coach, seniors cricket...

Tony Panecasio played a key part in Australia winning the O60s 2024 World Cup in Chennai and the Grey Ashes in November and December 2024. Tony had combined figures across the World Cup semi-final and final of 10-45 with his 4-32 in the final including a couple of stunning caught and bowled's. He won the trophy for most wickets at the 2024 O60s World Cup. In the Grey Ashes Tony took 10 wicket...

Who would've thought that just over a year since we launched we would be already pushing that quick single into a gap in the covers to get to our 50! Thank you to all our listeners and guests who made our first '50' such an enjoyable experience. We're taking fresh guard and looking to build on this foundation.  In this 50th episode we talk about some of the highlights of a just...

Clark McConnachie is the captain of Scotland O60s. In this episode we talk to Clark about what's going on domestically as well as internationally for Scotland senior cricketers. Clark explains how for many years Scotland Over 60s and 70s have been under the banner of the Scotland Forty Club District but that all changed in the autumn when Scotland Seniors was set up to cover the current range...

Dave Murphy is the new chair of the national 60s/70s county cricket championship. In this episode Dave talks us through the changes that have been made to the county championship structures for 2025. If you are aged 65+ then listen out for what Dave has to say about a special tournament potentially coming your way at the beginning of August. For the O60s 1st XI competition there are five groups in...

Chris Lowe is the England O70s team manager and the driving force behind the new look Seniors County Championship website for England and Wales. We kick off getting an update from Chris on what’s happening with England O70s as they look ahead to the next O70s World Cup in Christchurch, New Zealand in March 2026. England O70s are planning a 16 day tour of Australia immediately prior to the World Cu...

Paolo Iorio is a practising osteopath based in Derbyshire who for the last 2 to 3 years has also been working with the England O60s team. We talk to Paolo about the role of an osteopath and then Paolo offers up lots of tips and advice for O60s and O70s cricketers who are beginning to think about the season ahead and their fitness / mobility. Paolo’s advice revolves around consistency in terms of a...

We kickoff the New Year talking to a Lancashire legend – Chris ’Noddy’ Dearden We begin by establishing why Chris is known to many people in the cricket world as ‘Noddy’ and then talk about his early days playing for Littleborough in the Central Lancashire League rubbing shoulders with teammates who included Sir Garfield Sobers and Joel Garner Chris has had an illustrious Lancashire Seniors cricke...

We chat with Rash and Mel about their experiences of the England Over 60s cricket tour to Australia in November and December. Rash was the man on the microphone keeping all of us who tuned into the live YouTube feed in the early hours entertained as well as informed. Mel was one of the two England umpires on the tour and officiated some of the state games which the England team used as warmup and...

England finished the Grey Ashes series on a high by beating Australia in the final two ODI’s  The series thus finished 3-2 to Australia  We review both matches and give our perspective on the entire series and where we believe the differences between the two sides were We also announce our ‘Man of the Series’ and ‘Champagne Moments’  We wrap up this episode with a thank you to all 16 guests who ha...

In a last over finish Australia beat England by 2 wickets to take an unassailable 3-0 lead in the Grey Ashes. A low scoring tense match saw England almost valiantly defend 169 but it wasn’t to be. So congratulations to the Australians. We analyse the match from our live watching throughout the night on You Tube and on You Tube catch up. We recorded this episode live in Northamptonshire so if it so...

England O60s are undertaking a 5 week tour of Australia which involves 14 matches including five ODI's v Australia.   In this episode we review the first two ODI's which have both been won fairly comfortably by Australia. We analyse where we think the differences have been and how we think England need to react in order to be best positioned to win the final three matches and retain the...

England O60s are undertaking a 5 week tour of Australia which involves 14 matches including five ODI's v Australia, who of course beat England in the O60s World Cup final in Chennai in March.   In the last episode we talked with England O60s captain Edward Gordon Lennox so we are delighted to welcome to this episode of the podcast Australia O60s captain Peter Jensen. Peter looks ahead to the...

England O60s are undertaking a 5 week tour of Australia which involves 14 matches. We are delighted to welcome to the podcast England O60s captain Edward Gordon Lennox.  Ed shares his thoughts on the tour, captaincy, and leading a squad which includes 18 players, a tour manager, 2 umpires, a scorer, a commentator, an osteopath and 14 wives / partners. We recorded with Ed a few days before the main...

On this week's episode we are delighted to welcome Buckinghamshire O60s 2nd XI captain and prolific sports author David Tossell. David has written 20 books largely about cricket and football in the 1970s - the era when most listeners to this podcast were avidly following cricket even though media coverage was scant. David's latest book ' Blood on the Tracks ' is a masterpiece o...

On this week's episode we are delighted to welcome England O60s commentator Rash Mahmood. Rash explains how he landed this prestigious role, his experience of the O60s World Cup in India and how he is looking forward to the tour of Australia for the Grey Ashes. He gives some insights into being in the England camp as well as an overview of the work of the commentator and the technical set up....

In this episode we talk about ideas for 2025 - particularly in relation to the O60s 1st XI competition. Grant shares a league structure idea developed by Northants O50s scorer and podcast listener Nathan Armstrong. Trevor has his own, possibly radical thoughts, focusing on speeding up matches whilst extending the phase 2 Cup stage from 12 to 16 teams.  Plus we talk pink balls - especially for thos...