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

With the exception of one match the rain wiped out Tuesdays O60s programme with the only other O60s match played this week being the one that saw Hertfordshire beat Buckinghamshire in the carried ove…

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 grou…

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 Cu…

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 f…

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 Di…

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 littl…

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 tournam…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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.…

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 happ…

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…

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 …

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 li…

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 se…

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…