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

Truro welcomed Ron and Pat Hedley on a lovely sunny late afternoon on Friday October 2nd to do a 'Ron March' around Truro followed by socialising and singing.

You'll hear from Ron, from his wife Pat, from Cornwall organiser Chris Dennis and Cornwall O50s, O60s and O70s stalwart Kevin Hicks.

With the O60s / O70s AGM coming up on November 24th Trevor reminds you to get organised now if you are wanting to put forward ideas for any changes. 

He shares his three : 12 noon starts, the getting rid of e...

Grant and Trevor were at the fabulous Banbury CC on Thursday Sept 10th for the Grand Final of the O65s regional competition which saw the Northern Superchargers prevail over the South West Falcons.

You will hear from Tony Bennett, Michael Kenyon and Ian Frost who we briefly recorded with. 

Scorecard here

In his role as Player of the Match adjudicator Grant picked out Superchargers captain Chris ‘Noddy’ Dearden for the award. The money can’t buy prize? A whole episode on this show! 

We also round up the final matches in the O...

In this episode we cover the three O70s County Cricket Championship 2026 1st XI Finals

Plus the action in the O70s Division 2 and 3 which have one more week of matches

Full results here

We congratulate the amazing Ron Hedley who has reached and surpassed the £100,000 mark - absolutely incredible!

Still time to donate by clicking here 

If you are in Cornwall on Friday October 2nd join Ron and Chris Dennis for a walk at 4pm from Skinners Brewery on Newham Road 

The O60s / O70s cha...

In this episode we cover all nine O60s County Cricket Championship 2026 Finals which happened this week across 4 Divisions. 

Full results here

13 counties were represented with only one county triumphing in more than one final.

In the three O60s 1st XI finals the side batting first won in all three matches. 

There were some fairly easy wins alongside some close matches, although in only one match did both teams score 220+ 

16 of the 18 innings were 214 or less - with no hundreds recorded 

The lowest total was 75 all out...

It’s semi-final week in county O60s and O70s cricket - we cover all the matches, although some of the O70s matches were rained off and will be played on Tuesday Sept 2nd - the day when the O60s finals take place.

We also mention the amazing Ron Hedley who is closing in on his target of raising £100,000 for Prostate Cancer Awareness before the O60s/O70s AGM later in the year. 

As these notes are written Ron is on £99,234

You can help get the him past the magic...

It’s quarter final week in county O60s and O70s cricket- we cover all the matches

England beat New Zealand 3-0 in the Silver Fern series

And its controversy time at the O60s World Cup after a major incident in the England v India match and the resultant fall out and media coverage

Not quite how O60s cricket would wish to be talked about

For all the O60s and O70s knockout and championship results and fixtures click on this link:

Full results here

We are into August which means knockout county O60s and O70s cricket, the O60s World Cup in Toronto and the O70s ODI series between England and New Zealand 

This week was the round of 16 of the O60s Cup competition - so who won the prediction between Grant and Trevor?

We also had the round of 16 in the O60s 2nd XI Cup, some prelim matches in the O60s 2nd XI Bowl competition and in the O60s 3rd XI Vase

Extreme heat saw all O70s Div 2 a...

It's the final week of group matches for the O70s Division One plus we round up the O70s Division 2 and 3 and Divs 4 and 5 of the O60s.

The New Zealand O70s tour of England and Wales started in Somerset on August 2nd - with the first of three ODI’s v England kicking off at Frocester CC on Sunday August 9th. 

Click on this link https://bit.ly/4gF5rCE to go to the excellent Silver Ferns series tour brochure put together by England O70s team manager Chris Lowe.

And...

It's the final week of group matches for divisions one, two and three in the O60s county championship competitions. We round up the matches and look ahead to the various knockout competition draws with matches in the ko stage starting on August 11th. 

We look at all the action across the three divisions of the O70s county championship. In the O70s 1st division there is one more week of group action in which teams can play matches that were previously cancelled.

We also look briefly at how the England O60s Lions g...

New Zealand O70s are touring England and Wales in August

Great therefore to have on Silver Stumps the New Zealand team manager Lindsay Hewitson

Lindsay gives us an insight into the tour party. Some of them were over here for the 2024 O70s World Cup.

Including in those insights are some interesting skills and experiences that some of the squad have had in their lives including a long distance triathlete, an opera singer, someone whose grandfather was coached by WG Grace and someone who has played representative Cricket for Cornwall, not though...

Great to have Australia O60s Captain Peter Judd, Juddy as he's known to the Masters Cricket world, on Silver Stumps ahead of Australia travelling to Toronto for the O60s World Cup where they will be seeking to defend the title they won back in Chennai in February / March 2024

The Australia squad contains seven new names from the squad that came over to England for the Grey Ashes in 2025. Peter gives us a bit of a steer on some of those players whose names may not be familiar to our listeners.

We also have...

It's the penultimate week of group matches for many of the O60s and O70s county championship competitions.

We can report breaking news that Wales have withdrawn from the knockout stages of the O60s division one competition as they will be in Canada for the O60s World Cup.

It has been confirmed that the team effectively finishing 17th across all the groups will now be in the cup competition.

It's been a busy week at Silver Stumps with bonus episodes you can enjoy over the next week or so featuring...

Another packed week of O60s, O65s and O70s county and regional championship cricket plus the England O60s Lions played Western Australia and down under Australia and New Zealand O60s played out a close run three match World Cup warm up series.

As usual this week's matches delivered some extraordinary performances - for example in the O70s Div 1 where Alan Hunter of Hertfordshire began the last over of the match v Middlesex with figures of 1-39 with Middlesex needing 16 to win and finished the over with figures of 5-39 including a hat-trick. 

More changes to the England O60s World Cup Squad - Steve Aston out Colin Cliff in - Nick Gaywood out Neal Jackson in - just 4 players left who were part of the 2024 Chennai World Cup squad - Edward Gordon Lennox, Mel Hussain, Phil Deakin and Simon Routh

A very warm week but most O60s and O70s matches survived the heat - we round them up

On the management front O60s / O70s Chair Dave Murphy has announced he is stepping down when his two year term as Chair ends in December...

Grant's back to cover the matches - very good timing as we finally had virtually a full programme of O60s and O70s county championship cricket. Some matches went to the wire - we cover them all including a match where 2 players scored 99 in the same innings. 

This week's packed episode also includes cameo appearances from Somerset's Andy Sapey and Kent's Gary Joyce.

We also mention helmets, or the lack of them amongst batters, after a player top edged and suffered a significant cut across the bridge of his nose. 

Did we ha...

Grant is back in the building! A big welcome back to the show's co-host. 

And a big welcome back to the amazing Ron Hedley.

And a not so warm welcome back to extreme heat which meant only 10 matches across the 8 O60s and O70s divisions happened. 

Ron has raised over £93,000 to help promote Prostate Cancer Awareness - lets help get to £100,000 before the end of 2026 - https://bobwillisfund.org/ronsmarch

You can join an upcoming walk:

Fri July 10th - Berkshire : Meet at 1030am Rowbarge Inn, https://www.brun...

It was round 3 of the regional O65s competition with the two unbeaten teams - the Northern Superchargers and the South West Falcons meeting at Thurgarton near Nottingham - the visitors won on the last ball 

In terms of O60s Div 1 the big shock was Berkshire beating Essex to record their first win of the season

Three teams retain 100% records in O60s Div 2, with four teams unbeaten in Division 3. 

In the O70s Div 1 five teams are on 100% with 3 teams still looking for that elusive first win of the season

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Cricket is always ready to create records no matter what age you are and how long you've been playing. 

England O70s opener Chris Evans proved that this week when after dropping a catch at slip in the first over of the match v Kent he stayed in situ and remarkably then took six catches at slip as Kent were dismissed for 105 with the other four wickets all being catches as well. 

Has either happened before in 60s/70s cricket?  Here’s a link to the scorecard. 

Meanwhile up North Nick Gaywood plundered 161 not ou...

Just 13 matches across the entire over 60s and over 70s eight divisions were played to a finish – unbelievable given that this was the first week in June.

But nevertheless of the five matches that were completed in the over 60s first division three were epic finishes which we talk about in a little bit of detail.  I also touch upon the Test match at Lords – what is going on there?

And I say thanks to Nigel Harrington and Alan Hocking who recently umpired and scored respectively their 100th match for Cornwall Seniors – do you have officia...

Last Tuesday only 6 matches across the 5 060s Divisions survived the downpour. This week only 12 survived the heat!

By Thursday though the sun came out and lots of O70s cricket took place

Full results here

Talking of heat this week’s guest is Australia’s Tony Panecasio - TP - who is surprised its hot enough in England and Wales for matches to be called off - we talk about the forthcoming State of Origin competition in which Queensland take on New South Wales at Women's O40s and Mens O40s, 50s, 55s, 6...

The weather dominated the O60s county matches this week with just six matches across five divisions surviving the Tuesday downpours.

By Thursday though the sun came out and lots of Seniors cricket took place with round two of the new regional O65s competition plus matches across all three divisions of the O70s competition.

We pick out some of the highlights.

Full results here

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Matches this week across 5 divisions of Over 60s cricket and 3 divisions of Over 70s cricket

Including 3 matches that were tied!

Full results here

Plus we briefly look at the England Over 60s match v Scotland which was affected by the rain - Scorecard here

Congratulations to Phil Deakin on becoming England O60s leading wicket taker. Check Phil's stats here

If you are interested or know someone who is in helping on a volunteer basis tell the story of O60s/70s championship cricket then please contact the Chair...

Big thanks to everyone who has enquired about Grant’s health following his Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm operation - he’s still in hospital in Leicester but on the mend.

Please do send your goodwill messages to him via podcast@trevorjlee.com or by clicking on the ’Send us fan mail’ button below or message Trevor direct

Today (Thursday May 7th) saw the long awaited announcement of the England O60s World Cup squad

Round two of O60s championship in Divs 1,2 and 3 plus first matches in Divs 4 and 5 and in the O70s Divs 1...

This week’s best news is that Grant got through his Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm operation and he's now recovering in hospital in Leicester.

Please do send your goodwill messages to him via podcast@trevorjlee.com or by clicking on the ’Send us fan mail’ button below or message Trevor direct

And when you get invited to be tested get tested and get that PSA test done as well!

This week was the start of the O60s championship with all matches across divisions one, two  three completed. Divisions four and five and the O70s co...

This is episode 99 of the Silver stumps podcast so Grant starts off by recalling some famous 99's – have you had a 99? And then got out in bizarre circumstances? - let us know.

The England / Wales regional O65s competition started on Thursday, April 23rd with three terrific matches where five of the six scores were in excess of 245 runs.

The next round of matches are on May 21st - follow all the action via this webpage: https://6070cc.co.uk/o65s/

We also mentioned that England O70s team manager, Chris Lowe, ha...

The O60s / O70s cricket season in the UK is almost upon us

In this fast paced episode Grant and Trevor look at all that’s new for 2026 in the now 138 team strong O60s and O70s county championship and Trevor shares an idea for a Premier League O60s 1st XI competition. 

If you’ve got thoughts on that drop us a email to podcast@trevorjlee.com 

We also congratulate the winners of the Maltas Festival and the Seniors tournament held in LA 

And we are mentioned in the Gua...

In yet another packed episode Grant and Trevor talk about helmets after one of Grant’s County colleagues took a nasty blow in the nets while not wearing a helmet. Should they be compulsory in seniors Cricket? We discuss.

We also give a shout out to Australia's Darren Smith for receiving the accolade of being the International Masters Cricket O60s player of the year for 2025. Darren follows in the footsteps of fellow Australian Tony Panecasio who won the award for 2024. 

And we explore the new regional O65's competition which starts at the end of...

For many senior cricketers one of the highlights of the year is the Malta Seniors Cricket Festival

We are delighted therefore to have on this episode the founder and tournament director, Frank Spiteri

Frank’s family originate from Malta and since his return he's been a key driving force of Maltese Cricket, not only as the current leading run scorer for Malta in a series of ICC tournaments but also promoting the game and running this hugely popular tournament.

Nine teams are taking part in 2026 including a Canadian team and an Australian team an...

England retained the O70s World Cup they won in 2024 with a 15 run win over Australia at the magnificent Hagley Oval in Christchurch New Zealand.

England were put in and Jim Phillips and Chris Evans added 183 in 30 overs for the first wicket. 

England made 288/3 and in reply Australia were always behind the rate and finished 15 runs short despite a 115 unbeaten partnership in 13 overs between Gary Budden and Greg Stagg.

The tournament started on the 18th of February and featured  England, USA, India, Canada, Australia, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and a Rest of the Wo...

Here we are in the middle of February and there's lots of O60s and O70s Cricket to talk about.

Grant also fills us in on ‘Cricket on Ice’ which sounds like some sort of celebrity TV reality show but in actual fact is proper cricket played in St Moritz with our favourite commentator and umpire team involved – Rash and Mel Mahmood.

It's your final chance to win a copy of Roland Butcher's book 'Breaking Barriers - Barbados to England and back’. If you know the answer to the question we set the beginning of the e...

This episode of the Silver Stumps Podcast goes live on February 4th, two years since the first episode went live on February 4th, 2024. Who would have thought that we would still be here two years and 93 episodes later!

So we take this opportunity to have a quick look back over those two years and pick out some of the highlights and memorable moments.

We've had lots and lots of fantastic guests, some amazing contributors, some super people who support and share the podcast, far more listeners than we ever dreamt of and importantly we've made...

The England Lions are off to India to take part in India's O60s 'Nationals' Tournament alongside teams from the South, North, West and Central Zones as well as team called the Global Patriots. It's going to be full on with 5 matches in 6 days at the amazing Pondicherry complex which has no less than six cricket grounds. 

In this episode we catch up with Northamptonshire's Chris Bowmer as he prepares to be part of the England Lions squad for the tournament. Chris talks about how he only got involved with seniors cricket in 2023 at 60, which is also t...

We may not quite be halfway through January but Seniors cricket is gearing up for an exciting 2026.

Kicking off with England O70s defending the Silver Ashes in three ODi's in Australia.  The first match of the tour is on February 1st with the ODI's on the 7th, 11th and 13th.

The squad then travel to Christchurch, New Zealand to defend the O70s World Cup they won in England in 2024. Eight teams begin a round robin competition on February 17th with the top two in the round robin league table playing each in the f...

In this episode Clark McConnachie, captain of Scotland Seniors O60s, reflects on a first year as Scotland Seniors and members of the IMC and looks ahead to Scotland playing in the O60s World Cup for the first time in August 2026 in Toronto. 

Not only have they re-branded - previously all their matches were under the banner of the Forty Club - but earlier in the year Scotland Seniors became the 15th country to join the International Masters Cricket organisation. Scotland Seniors covers all ‘Masters’ ages groups under one roof - O40s, O50s, O60s and...

Friend of the show and Australia O60s top player Tony Panecasio - TP - joins us on this episode to share and discuss what happened at the 'Nationals' for both Australia 060s and O65s, the latter which was held in Christchurch, New Zealand. 

TP was excited for the O60s tournament skippering his state New South Wales for the first time but unfortunately ripped his hamstring 3 balls in! 

TP gives us insights in both tournaments.

We also touch upon the Silver Ashes between Australia and England taking place at the beginning of...

This is our Ashes special as it's going out a couple of days before the Ashes series between Australia and England starts in Perth.

We are joined by Australia Grey Ashes cricketer Alan 'Muggo' Muggleton. We were hoping that former Australian fast bowler Len Pascoe would also be joining this episode – but unfortunately at the last minute Len couldn't make the recording due to troubles with the Internet connection from where he was holidaying. 

We talk about the Grey Ashes, the Ashes series coming up and Muggo gives us a lowdown on the Australia O60s n...

We first had Ron Hedley on Silver Stumps on episode 6 - March 15th 2024. 

At that point Ron had raised an incredible £32000 for the Bob Willis Prostate Cancer Awareness Fund 

Ron told us that six months later the fundraising walks would finish on his 75th birthday - September 15th 2024 - at Lords 

Well over a year later from that proposed finish the awareness and fundraising continues and Ron has just returned from an amazing cricket tour of the Vatican

We catch up with Ron and discover he’s just as enthusiastic and energi...

Many of you listening to this podcast will also have undoubtedly tuned in at some point to the fantastic YouTube coverage given to the England O60s cricket matches during the 2025 summer against the West Indies, the USA and of course the Grey Ashes against Australia.

In this episode Trevor catches up with one of the commentators, Owen Mason, and one of the key people behind the scenes vision mixer Nuala Goodland 

We talk about all the things that the viewers don't see or sometimes don't always appreciate that go on to bring this excellent c...

Sir Tim Rice loves cricket, so much so that back in the early 70s he set up his own side – Heartaches CC – which is still going strong today. In the second week of September for over the 40th time the Heartaches came down to Cornwall to play three matches.

I was lucky enough to play for the Heartaches against Falmouth on the Thursday and then against them for my long-standing club side Mullion on the Friday.

During the Friday match I caught up with Tim and he talked about his love of cricket, how he got...

We think we've covered almost 900 matches on this podcast during the domestic season which has now ended.

So this is our review of the 2025 O60s and O70s cricket season.

We look back on some fantastic batting, bowling and fielding achievements and congratulate those who top the charts 

We will continue with the Silver Stumps podcast during the autumn and winter with a series of guests lined up so that we can produce an episode roughly every two weeks

Thank you so much to everyone of you who has supported t...