Send us a textEngland 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 series and gives us some insights into the Australia preparation including working wi...

Send us a textEngland 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 party boarded the plane to Australia. The first match is a one off ODI v ...

Send us a textOn 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 of research and writing covering the infamous Ashes series of 1974/75 when England came up against Dennis ...

Send us a textOn 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. He gives a big shout out to Steve Dellow who has been instrumental in providing the live ...

Send us a textIn 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 those of us who are colour blind What are your thoughts on 2025? O60s, O70s...

Send us a textIn this episode we chat with Colin Walters and John Courtney who run the Rest of the World seniors cricket teams.We talk about their participation in the 2022 and 2024 O60s World Cup tournaments, their upcoming 10th anniversary tournament in Dubai and 2025 planned tours of New Zealand and Zimbabwe You can find your more at https://restoftheworld.co.ukHere is the link the O60s / O70s Play Cricket site: O60s / O70s Play Cricket and you can keep up to date with all the fixture...

Send us a textIn this episode we chat with Yorkshire O60s skipper and England player Kev Watson.We talk about this year’s O60s Cup final in which Yorkshire lost to Lancashire, the Tri-Nations, Kev’s thoughts on Phase 2, plans for Yorkshire for 2025 and how he is preparing and looking forward to the England O60s trip to Australia in November and December for the Grey Ashes. We also mention the Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed on Kent’s Howard Smith. You can read more about that here.He...

Send us a textIn this episode we cover the Over 60s International Tri-Nations tournament that took place in North Wales on the 17th 18th and 19th of September 2024 featuring teams from Scotland, Wales, England, and the England Lions.We also pay tribute to the fantastic work that Ron Hedley from Buckinghamshire has done raising almost £50,000 for prostate cancer awareness culminating in a grand finale at Lords on his 75th birthday – September 15, 2024We also reveal our own Over 60s dream teams...

Send us a textIt’s been the final week of the over 60s and over 70s county cricket championship competitions with eight finals scheduled for the O60s and the 1st XI Cup final for the O70sBut no-one told the weather!Of the 9 finals 4 will now be played at the start of the 2025 season, 2 were decided by DLS and 3 were completed.Congratulations to all the winners - as well as Essex who won the O60s 4th Division and Hertfordshire who are champions of the O70s 2nd XI competition. Next week we...

Send us a textIt is the penultimate week of the over 60s and over 70s county cricket championship competitionsIn the over 60s it's been semi-final week for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd XI’s and the penultimate week of group matches for the 4th XI’s. In the over 70s it's been the final of the 1st XI Vase and Bowl competitions and the penultimate week of group matches for the 2nd XI’s. We review all the action and then look forward to the final week which sees eight finals in the over 60s com...

Send us a textThis is the podcast that covers the One 60s and Over 70s county cricket championships.Phase 2 of the O60s 1st and 2nd XI competition is complete. So who’s made the semi-finals of the Cup, Vase and Bowl in both divisions? And who were the victors in the 3rd XI Cup and Vase quarter finals? Plus who’s looking good to win the 4th XI comp with 2 rounds to go? And in the O70s 1st XI who were victorious in the Cup, Vase and Bowl semi-finals? And who’s looking good t...

Send us a textSo who's going to make the semi-finals of the O60s 1st XI comps? Lots of places across the Cup, Vase and Bowl still to play for in next week's final round of phase 2 matches. In the O60s 2nd XI phase 2 it was round 4 of 5 this week in the Cup, Vase and Bowl groups and again lots of places up for grabs in the semis going in to next week's final phase 2 matches. So what are your thoughts on phase 2? Use the 'send us a text message' button or drop an email to podcas...

Send us a textWe cover matches played on Tuesday August 13th and 15th In the O60s 1st XI phase 2 its round 6 of 8 in the Cup, Vase and Bowl groups so the semi final places now very much up for grabsIn the O60s 2nd XI phase 2 its round 3 of 5 in the Cup, Vase and Bowl groupsO60s Div 3 haș finished so we now know the line up for the Cup and Vase quarter finals O60s Div 4 has a few more rounds to go with the league positions to decide the winnersIn the O70s Div 1 the quarter finals of the C...

Send us a textEngland win the O70s World Cup! Our guest on this special episode is England's World Cup winning captain John Evans from GloucestershireJohn shares with us what it was like to be the England captain particularly during the final against Australia, a team that England had lost to in the group stages.Grant was at the final at Wormsley as a spectator so was able to witness first hand England's terrific victory.You can get all the stats and scorecards and everything else about ...

Send us a textWhat a week its been for O60s / 70s cricket.Richard Merriman steps down as England O60s skipper and is replaced by vice-captain Edward Gordon-Lennox. Then a couple of days later there is the announcement of the squad to travel to Australia for the Grey Ashes. Six players included who didn't play in the World Cup including a couple we don't really know. Plus the O70s World Cup is reaching its latter stages. And we've got a round up of all the matches played in the county champion...

Send us a textWe round up all the Over 60s and 70s action over the last two weeks highlighting some great individual performances - tune in to see if you get a mention - plus we see what's been happening in the first three rounds of the Over 70s Cricket world Cup. Over 70s World Cup Play Cricket Site This episode is going out live on Friday, August 2, 2024 which means we're at the halfway point of the Over 60s Division One phase 2 matches whilst the Over 60s Division Two counties started thei...

Send us a Text Message.Our special guest is England Over 70s team manager and co-organiser of the Over 70s World Cup Chris LoweChris looks ahead to the tournament which features seven nations beginning a round robin tournament on Sunday July 28th with after six matches each the top 2 going into the final at the Wormsley cricket ground on Sunday August 11th.The competing nations are Australia, New Zealand, Wales, Sri Lanka, Canada, India and EnglandYou can find the fixtures here : Over 7...

Send us a Text Message.We recorded just before the start of the 5th and final England v Pakiston O60s ODI with England recovering from losing the first game to leading 2-1 with match 3 abandoned. We review the first 4 matches along with all the action in this week’s over 60s and over 70s national county cricket competition.This is week two for the over 60s 1st XI phase 2 competition and next week is the final replay week for the over 60s 2nd XI competition. We take a look at all the matc...

Send us a Text Message.Sybil grew up on the boundaries of Shropshire cricket fields watching her dad, an all-rounder, play club and works cricket. Sybil is a journalist and broadcaster and was the first woman to present cricket on British terrestrial TV with the BAFTA and RTS award-winning C4 Cricket and C4 Cricket Roadshow. She interviewed scores of cricketers, from Sir Garfield Sobers, Sir Colin Cowdrey and Sir Vivian Richards to Sir Curtly Ambrose, Steve Waugh and Sachin Tendulkar.Syb...

Send us a Text Message.The O60s 1st XI Group competitions concluded this week so we look at the results and how they then affected the make up of the phase two matches in which the top two teams from each of the six groups have progressed into the last 12 for the cup competition.The 12 are divided into two groups based on geographical location and they will play each other home and away between July 9th and August 27th with the exception that you don't play the team you already play in your r...

Send us a Text Message.Richard Merriman is back on the show – in this episode the England O60s captain looks ahead to the five match ODI series versus PakistanThis series will be a big challenge for Richard and his team as they come up against opposition containing former international and first-class players led by Saleem Malik who played 386 international matches, including 103 Test matches, for PakistanPakistan were the inaugural winners of the O60s World Cup in 2022 but unfortunately visa...

Send us a Text Message.Lots of matches and lots of runs this weekWe review the matches played across the various O60s and O70 divisions on June 25th and 27th.It's replay week on July 2nd in the O60s Div 1 - can Surrey make the top 2 or will their defence of the title end here? They've got no game on replay week so will be relying on others. Wales smash 409/5 in O60s div 1 - highest of the season so far we think. Anyone know the all time record team score in 60s/70s? We also noted in the ...

Send us a Text Message.The O60s Div 1 is nearing the end of the group stage so we look at this week's matches with one more week to go plus the replay week.Also covered all the matches in O60s Div2, Div 3 and Div 4 plus both O70s Divisions.A shout to those who were behind the excellent live coverage of England O60s in the recent match v Wales If you’d like to contact us then you can do so now by text message – you will see when you find the podcast episode on your podcast app an opportun...

Send us a Text Message.With Trevor away last week this bumper episode of the Silver Stumps podcast features matches from w/c June 3rd and w/c June 10th across the various O60s and O70 divisions.We do a fairly rapid walk-through of what’s happened picking out some individual and team highlights and we cover the one sided England v Wales O60s international played on June 12th. Scorecard here In the previous episode we mentioned Stephen 'Ned' Kelly who has now reached 150 matches. We had g...