It was going to happen, but I didn't expect it to be this soon. Suddenly a team which has performed for so long and so well in the indoor cricket competition is now on the verge of playing its last games together as the current season draws to a close.
Naturally I'm in a bit of shock that we will no longer play as a team in future. Questions are running through my mind. How will I get my indoor cricket fix for the week? What will I do with my spare time? How would I keep in touch with team mates if we don't play cricket every week? Will there be a chance of a comeback? Things like that.
Because of increased work commitments, travel plans, and the difficulty of regularly fielding a team without resorting to randoms, we're considering pulling the pin. Unless we can find new blood to field a full team week after week, it's looking very grim for us.
There's been talk of some of us playing for other teams who need players. But it's just not the same. You develop a strong sense of camaraderie with your original team. We've experienced many memorable wins and losses, highs and lows, nail biters and thrashings, brilliancies and blunders. You probably won't experience the same degree with a different team of people you hardly know.
Something to motivate us: we made the semifinals for the third or forth time, but we've never won a final. If we could win this season's final in our retirement game, that would be really special. It won't be easy though; this season's teams have been very tough to beat. We're not the strongest team in the competition, but we can certainly put up a good fight.
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