Sprightly Mike Fisher proves he's the oldest swinger in town by still turning out for this local cricket team every week - at the age of 91.

The grandfather-of-two is still batting off opponents decades younger than him - 75 years after taking up the sport.



The RAF veteran turns out for two hours a week, every Friday, for his local team and says he can still play all over the field.

Mike, who is probably Britain's oldest cricketer, averages around eight runs a game - and has vowed to carry on playing for as long as he can.

The OAP rekindled his love of the game aged 87 after arranging a cricket match with friends for a dementia charity.

They enjoyed it so much that the group carried on playing and each week they get together at Manor Farm Community Association in Rushall, West Mids.

Mike, from Bloxwich, Walsall, West Mids., says he's the oldest batter by a long way playing against opponents 20 years younger than him.

Dad-of-two Mike, a former machine shop worker, said: "I'm the oldest player there by a long way and I could be the oldest currently playing cricket, who knows."

"I've been playing for three or four years since taking it back up, it's just something to do. "

"It's football and cricket for me, if I don't do anything it's not good, they keep me fit. "

"There's bowling, bat or field and I play them all, I love it all the same. "

"I have never seriously played cricket, but I used to go around with a village team as a scorer and played if they were short."

"It started off again as a charity thing for dementia, we all decided we wanted to keep on playing after we finished the charity match. "

"I'm the oldest here by a long margin, the age range of most of them is in their 70s."

"We play three, four or five overs each. We still keep playing, we get four or five runs. We take it in turns with the opposing team and switch positions."

"For every over we end up in a different position, we always swap. "

"We play once a week on Friday, we get the hall booked for two hours. For one hour we're batting and another we're bowling. "

"I'm still getting quite a few runs, I say run but sometimes we have to walk it. "

"I've scored a few runs now but we just go to enjoy ourselves. When I play football or cricket, I don't go to score or get runs, I go to enjoy it."

Despite his age, Mike also plays striker regularly for his local football team Old Corinthians three times a week and bags plenty of goals.

The youthful pensioner says exercise is his secret to keeping active at an old age and praised sports for preventing him from ‘falling to bits'.

Mike added: "It doesn't matter how good you are, it's just if you enjoy it, then you do it. No one is bothered. "

"I was 82 before I started playing walking football, someone told me to come and have a game."

" I went along and I started to score goals, I was called Ninja by my teammates. If you ask anyone about my name Mike, they say who's he?. If you say Ninja, they know. "

"If I'm not in one place, I'm in another. I'm never in one place long enough to be marked. I can't be marked. "

"The secret is just to enjoy myself. If I wasn't doing these sports I would be sitting down falling to pieces like most people my age, why would I want that?"