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CAPTAINCY—UMPIRING—CRICKET REFORM
CAPTAINCY
To be captain, to preside over the destinies of your side, to put your men in to bat in right order, to change the bowling, to put the bowlers on at the right end, to know when to declare the innings at an end, to judge accurately of your own powers, when to go on to bowl yourself and when to take yourself off, whether to go in or not after winning the toss, to place your field with judgment—to be able to do all these things makes a formidable demand upon the brains and nerves of a man. Besides all these, then there is the indefinable something which goes to making your own eleven trust you: the
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