Silver Stumps - the Over 60s Cricket Podcast Grant Timms and Trevor Lee

Too much rain is a very apt title for this weeks episode of the Silver Stumps podcast as we review the few games on May 14th and May 16th that survived the weather in the latest round of over 60s and 70s county championship matches.If you played there's a good chance you get a mention this week!We also mention the recently announced England O70s World Cup squad for this prestigious tournament which is taking place in England starting on July 28th - details of the tournament and the England sq...

In this episode of the Silver Stumps podcast hosts Grant Timms and Trevor Lee review the O60s and 70s matches that took place on May 7th and 9th.The lads pick out some highlights from all divisions across both competitions name checking those who do well and maybe not so well!Are you mentioned? Tune in to find out! Check out all the results on the O60s/O70s Play Cricket pages And here's the link to O60s/O70s website We are looking for the comedy moment each week so please ...

In this episode of the Silver Stumps podcast hosts Grant Timms and Trevor Lee review the matches that took place on the second week of the season for the Over 60s Championship with 9 games surviving the weather.Top bowler of the week was Lincolnshire’s Roy Tilley with 5-41 and top batter was England captain Richard Merriman from Derbyshire who made the highest score of the season so far with 123 not out. We mention in the episode the England Internationals Past and Present D...

In this episode of the Silver Stumps podcast hosts Grant Timms and Trevor Lee review the matches that took place on the first day of the season for the Over 60s Championship - April 23rd - and look forward to week two matches scheduled for April 30thA number of games were cancelled and have been rearranged for the replay date of July 2ndThere were no matches played in the North and Midlands groups with Essex winning the only matching the East group and Sussex the only match in the South...

In this episode of the Silver Stumps podcast Mark Shepherd captain of the 2023 O60s Championship winners Surrey joins hosts Grant Timms and Trevor Lee.We talk about how Surrey went from being 9th seeds in the last 16 draw for the championship to the eventual winners and their journey along the way including removing co-host Grant Timms in the last 16 match for 0 and on his home ground at Rushden!In fact getting their opponents top players out for nought was a pattern that Surrey establi...

In this episode of the Silver Stumps podcast National Management team man and Warwickshire player Dave Murphy joins hosts Grant Timms and Trevor Lee to explain the new look formats for 2024, in particular the phase two group stages for the O60s 1st and 2nd XI competitions.Here’s a summary of the formats:O60s 1st XI : 33 teams in 6 groups (it was 5 in 2023) - North (6 teams) - East (5), Midlands (5), South East (5), South East Midlands (6) and SouthWest (6).The top 2 teams in each group progre...