🏏 Same Sunday cricket group for 6 years now

Every Sunday at 6:30 in the morning, 11 or 12 of us show up at the same ground. 6 years now. Jobs changed. Two of us got married. One guy moved to another city and still drives back most weekends to play. Nobody remembers how it started. A few friends invited a few friends, and one day it was just a fixed thing. There's a photo from the first year somewhere. We argue about which Sunday it was taken. We've watched each other's kids learn to walk on the boundary line. We've celebrated promotions with cheap samosas. A couple of years back one of the group went through a divorce. Nobody said much about it. We just kept the game going so he had one normal morning a week. He talked when he wanted to. Some Sundays he said nothing and bowled badly. Some Sundays he talked for an hour near the water tank. The cricket itself has gotten worse. We're slower, more careful, and we complain about our knees for longer than we play. Last month an easy catch came to me and I flinched and dropped it. 3 people laughed for 10 minutes. We have chai after, and the argument about who bowled the worst over takes another half hour. I think some of us would keep meeting even if we stopped playing and just sat on the steps. A friend asked me last week why I never miss a Sunday, even when I have a cold. I said because they'd notice. He said that sounds sad. I said it isn't. We left it there. Anyway, if your group has a ground, a time and a regular crowd, I'd like to hear about it. How long has yours lasted? Ours is 6 years and still counting, knees permitting.

Our group fell apart after 2 years. Two people changed jobs and the rest of us stopped messaging. Reading yours, I think the difference is somebody who drives back every weekend. That's the glue. Somebody has to be a bit stubborn, I guess, otherwise it dies quietly without anyone deciding. I might message my old group tonight. Any tips for getting 11 people to agree on a Sunday?

Our Saturday football group is the same. Nobody knows who started it, but we've kept it going for 5 years.