In yet another packed episode Grant and Trevor talk about helmets after one of Grants County colleagues took a nasty blow in the nets were 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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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.

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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.

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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.