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 competition get going next week - w/c May 4th - full results here

There was a England O60s trial match at Ticknall in Derbyshire on Thursday, April 30th – full scorecard here

And a big shout out to the new look You Tube coverage crew who are working with England commentator Rash Mahmood - Adam, Molly Lucy and Mick who under the expert guidance of Ivor Richards are once again providing fantastic YouTube live pictures and commentary for England games in 2026.

We did hear that the England squad for the O60s World Cup in Toronto in August will be announced on Monday, May 4th so look out for that.

Follow all the O65s regional competition action via this webpage: https://6070cc.co.uk/o65s/ - next matches May 21st

England O70s team manager, Chris Lowe, has put a shout out for anyone interested in putting themselves forward for the England team in 2026 details here: https://6070cc.co.uk/category/england-70-internationals/

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Silver Stumps is the podcast aimed at Over 60s and Over 70s Cricketers. Hosted by Grant Timms and Trevor Lee it aims to be entertaining, informative and topical as Grant and Trevor combine a mix of guests with their own take on what's happening in the thriving world of over 60s and 70s cricket.

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, has put a shout out for anyone interested in putting themselves forward for the England team in 2026 details here: https://6070cc.co.uk/category/england-70-internationals/

We look ahead to April 28th and the start of the O60s season with matches in the top three divisions.

We wish Nottinghamshire, the best of luck as they begin their county championship O60s adventure.

And we acknowledge the final England O60s World Cup trial to be held at Ticknall CC on Thursday, April 30th.

Finally Grant explains why he will be missing now for several episodes – if you fancy being a guest contributor on the show then please drop Trevor a note via podcast@trevorjlee.com

All the team here at Silver Stumps along with our many listeners across the UK and indeed the world wish Grant a successful operation and a speedy recovery.

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Silver Stumps is the podcast aimed at Over 60s and Over 70s Cricketers. Hosted by Grant Timms and Trevor Lee it aims to be entertaining, informative and topical as Grant and Trevor combine a mix of guests with their own take on what's happening in the thriving world of over 60s and 70s cricket.

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 Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/apr/01/cricket-england-over-70s-silver-ashes-world-cup

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Silver Stumps is the podcast aimed at Over 60s and Over 70s Cricketers. Hosted by Grant Timms and Trevor Lee it aims to be entertaining, informative and topical as Grant and Trevor combine a mix of guests with their own take on what's happening in the thriving world of over 60s and 70s cricket.

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 April if you want to know more about the competition follow this link https://6070cc.co.uk/o65s/

And we mention 'Willow to Wisdom' a soon to be launched podcast by England Seniors.

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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 and also present at various points will be Henry Blofeld, Chris Cowdrey and Devon Malcolm

All matches are played on the famous Marsa ground

Malta has a climate which enables cricket to be played pretty much all year round with local summer and winter leagues.

You can find out more about the festival and follow it live using the link below

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facebook.com/EuropeCricketLegends

YouTube: Live Streaming / Interviews

youtube.com/@EuropeCricketLegends

Play-Cricket Website:

http://maltaseniorsfestival.play-cricket.com

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Silver Stumps is the podcast aimed at Over 60s and Over 70s Cricketers. Hosted by Grant Timms and Trevor Lee it aims to be entertaining, informative and topical as Grant and Trevor combine a mix of guests with their own take on what's happening in the thriving world of over 60s and 70s cricket.

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 World team.

Each team played each other in a round robin format with the top two going through to the final.

Australia won every game in the group stage and the only group match England lost was to Australia.

Unfortunately, the rain did affect some of the games including the penultimate round of group games when New Zealand needed to beat England to have a chance of reaching the final

NZ were 51 for five off 23 overs when the rain came and the match was abandoned

The hosts finished 3rd on the same number of points as England but with a much inferior run rate

Canada and the USA both won 3 group matches

India with one win and Sri Lanka with no wins found the going quite tough

All the results can be found here:

https://www.imco70cwc.kiwi/

Silver Stumps now has a small website which you can find at https://www.silverstumps.com/ - it features all the episodes and a little bit about Grant and Trevor, the co-hosts of the podcast.

If you've got feedback or observations about the podcast or ideas for future guests please drop us an email to podcast@trevorjlee.com or press ‘send us a text’ at the bottom of these notes - please include your name and contact details as otherwise we don't know who the message is from.

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Silver Stumps is the podcast aimed at Over 60s and Over 70s Cricketers. Hosted by Grant Timms and Trevor Lee it aims to be entertaining, informative and topical as Grant and Trevor combine a mix of guests with their own take on what's happening in the thriving world of over 60s and 70s cricket.

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 episode then send your answer to podcast@trevorjlee.com

We have a quick look back at the England O60s Lions tour of India and then focus on the fantastic effort by the England O70s who whitewashed their Australian hosts in their own backyard to retain the Silver Ashes and now look forward to defending the O70s World Cup in Christchurch New Zealand.

It's an 8 team tournament featuring England, USA, India, Canada, Australia, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and a Rest of the World team.

Everybody plays everybody in a round robin format with matches every two days starting on the 18th of February - 10am New Zealand time which is 9 pm on the 17th of February here in the UK

The top two teams from the round robin stage meet in the final on March 5th at the Hagley Oval - a ground which hosted its first Test match on Boxing Day 2014 and on day one a certain Brendan McCullum scored 195 off 134 balls v Sri Lanka.

Will we see a repeat of that kind of innings in the O70s final?

Here are various links you can use to follow all the action:

https://www.instagram.com/over70sworldcup/ INSTAGRAM

https://www.facebook.com/over70sworldcup/ FACEBOOK

https://www.imco70cwc.kiwi/ IMC O70 CWC WEBSITE

https://www.youtube.com/@Over70sWorldCup-z6p LIVESTREAMING OF 19 MATCHES

https://www.vcnz.org/ VETERANS CRICKET NEW ZEALAND WEBSITE

https://live.nvplay.com/nz LIVESCORING Go to Fixtures IMC O70 Cricket World Cup

Silver Stumps now has a small website which you can find at https://www.silverstumps.com/ - it features all the episodes and a little bit about Grant and Trevor, the co-hosts of the podcast.

If you've got feedback or observations about the podcast or ideas for future guests please drop us an email to podcast@trevorjlee.com or press ‘send us a text’ at the bottom of these notes - please include your name and contact details as otherwise we don't know who the message is from.

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Silver Stumps is the podcast aimed at Over 60s and Over 70s Cricketers. Hosted by Grant Timms and Trevor Lee it aims to be entertaining, informative and topical as Grant and Trevor combine a mix of guests with their own take on what's happening in the thriving world of over 60s and 70s cricket.

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 a lot of new friends in the Seniors / Masters Cricket community.

To celebrate the two years of podcasting we have a book written by Roland Butcher with a personal inscription 'to a lucky listener' to give away.

So if you would like to win the copy of Roland's 'Breaking Barriers - Barbados to England and back' book then tune in to the episode for the key question and send your answer to podcast@trevorjlee.com

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Silver Stumps is the podcast aimed at Over 60s and Over 70s Cricketers. Hosted by Grant Timms and Trevor Lee it aims to be entertaining, informative and topical as Grant and Trevor combine a mix of guests with their own take on what's happening in the thriving world of over 60s and 70s cricket.