Silver Stumps - the Over 60s/70s Cricket Podcast · Grant Timms and Trevor Lee

O60s and O70s Cricket 2025 Season review

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The season review covers about 900 matches across 28 episodes and finds only three bowlers with multiple fifers.

1. Silver Stumps episode 84 reviews the 2025 over-60s and over-70s cricket season, recorded on Thursday 25 September and broadcast on Friday 26 September. 2. The solo host speaks as the show's stats lead, while Grant is absent and the episode references contributions from scorers, organisers, umpires, volunteers and supporters. 3. The episode exists to close out the domestic season with a statistical audit of about 900 matches across the 60s and 70s competitions. 4. The host says Cornwall’s 60s first XI posted the highest Division 1 total of the season, 352, after Devon had believed the pitch was damp. 5. Richard Merriman’s 189 for Derbyshire against Cheshire is identified as the highest individual score of the season, and Wales’ Dave Adams made 169 not out in Division 2. 6. On the bowling side, Mike Rees took 6 for 43 for Kent 60s against Surrey, then David Humphries bettered that with 6 for 17 for Hampshire seconds against wheelchair. 7. John Elliott’s 7 for 14 for Essex 60s against Kent became the best analysis of the combined 60s and 70s season, and his season figures are given as 12 wickets at 2.33. 8. Other six-wicket hauls named include Joseph Perrier, John Gibbons, Steve Pennington, Hugh Rogers and Jonathan Digby, all in 60s matches. 9. The season structure is outlined with 126 teams, five new entrants, and a 2025 return to five regional groups in the over-60s first XI competition. 10. Northamptonshire joined the over-60s second XI, while Cornwall joined the over-70s first XI and Scotland Seniors received Masters accreditation and beat Durham in pre-season. 11. The host says the over-60s knockout stages saw Yorkshire, Lancashire, Warwickshire, Essex and Kent move through the bracket before Wales won the first XI Cup and Cornwall reached the final. 12. In the over-60s second XI Cup, Yorkshire were unbeaten in the group stage, Oxfordshire entered as 2024 winners, and Gloucestershire eventually beat Lancashire in the final. 13. The over-60s third XI Cup went to Sussex after Oxfordshire and Surrey were beaten, while Essex won the fourth XI Cup. 14. In the over-70s, the first XI Cup was shared between Oxford and Kent because the scheduled final was carried into 2026, and Middlesex won the 2024 over-70s Vars competition. 15. The host says the over-60s first XI batting leader was Anton Luton with 777 runs, while Pat Neal topped the second XI with 1,040 and Jim Phillips led the over-70s first XI with 1,081. 16. The leading season wicket-takers across all competitions are listed as Mike Stafford with 44, Marcus Young with 43, Jim Phillips with 37 and Rob Willis with 36. 17. The episode is a solo stats roundup with a brisk, conversational style and frequent side remarks about weather, seeding and scorecards. 18. It mixes end-of-season gratitude with practical winter planning, including a proposed Silver Stumps park run club and a promise to keep producing episodes through the winter. 19. Listeners who follow masters cricket results, cup brackets and season statistics will get the most from this episode. 20. Listeners wanting a short match recap without detailed numbers may skip it.

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A season-closing cricket ledger that stays grounded in the people behind it.

Silver Stumps closes episode 84 as a season review, five months after the Season Preview on 25 April. It covers roughly 900 matches across about 28 episodes, moving from 60s and 70s league work into internationals, trial games, representative matches, tight finishes, and ties.

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