Sam Perry

He choked up.

I mean, he's reunited, reacquainted with his MI teammates.

That was two teams ago.

But he was reacquainting with...

Kyron Pollard and his brother, Hardik.

And, um, and they called it exactly.

And they call themselves the engine room of MI back in the day.

Um, he said, criminal, I still remember in 2021 when we were playing our last game, you know, the three of us, we held each other's hands and we felt like, okay, this is the last time we'll be able to play together.

Uh, and he was kind of, yeah, it was, he was like choking up as he was saying it now, like,

I just want to call that out, that like for a competition that, you know, and a format that's regularly derided as one that is the preserve of mercenaries, you know, cricketers who care little about their team, you know, the locale, they regularly find themselves injured after attracting base price in an auction, for example.

That's coincidental.

Yeah.

It's very important, and I do mean this, to call out that there's lots of places, lots of people who actually care about the game, care about their teammates.

They forge connections.

And, you know, there's no punchline or misdirection here.

Like, you know, yes, auction mechanics and, you know, retention limits discourage continuity and connection.

And Krunel has since played for LSG and now RCB.

But still, the point stands.

They were close once.

Tim David used to be close to MI.