When Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT) hockey team’s veteran defender Shree Krishnamurthy dropped his teammate Abhijit Shirsat from MbPT’s Wadala quarters to the Dadar Terminus on Wednesday evening to board a bus to his Pune home, he had absolutely no inkling that he was bidding his friend goodbye for the last time.

Shirsat, 47, passed away at his Pune home in the wee hours of the next day after suffering a massive heart attack, leaving behind his mother, wife Sujatha and two teenage sons Aryan and Arnav. The last rites were performed at Khadki, Pune, on Thursday.