The thing is, right, lets say you enter the league and are given 20 fixtures, but then you end up only being able to get a team out for half of them.
That's the 10 weekends where not only do your remaining players not get a game, but that's now a weekend where the opposition players don't get a game, either.
If there are a lot of teams like this in the league, you can have good clubs full of enthusiastic cricketers who hardly ever actually get a game of cricket. They have made the effort and kept all their weekends free, and now they're just left without a game. This has happened to our 2nd XI this year. One bloke I was talking to at the start of the season was super keen, available for every weekend, and he's now gone a month without playing a single game.
and guess what they do - they quit cricket, because what is the point of making the time and effort to dedicate yourself to a sport, only to never actually get to play it? You'd be better off taking up golf or something instead.
and so now another team folds. and so the cycle continues.
THIS is what is killing our game. If you can't commit to a league - and guarantee you will fulfil every fixture, come what may, then don't enter, because all you are doing is spreading the virus.
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