why is the captain of a cricket team called a skipper?
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Captains of all kinds are called skipper as a tradition from seafaring , which was a dominant part of life before steam trains and aeroplanes.   Even the foreman on a building site might be called skipper - it was a generic honorific term for  people in charge of any "crew" or small group of men.  After years of mucking about in boats I do not know how the term originated, but I suspect it came from the Scandinavian languages which left so much in English and especially anything to do with the sea -- oar, dinghy, harbor, and the rest.
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to signify that they are the captain.
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Any one in the team can bowl, even a wicket keeper. The only thing is that some body should keep the wickets, while a wicket keeper is bowling.\nCheck this link to know some more interesting rules.\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/low/cricket/rules_and_equipment/4183586.stm
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a) Frederick Richard Brown (aka Freddie Brown)(born in Lima) lead England in the 1950-52 series in Australia.\nb) Edward Ralph Dexter (aka Ted Dexter)(born in Milan) was appointed England's skipper in 1961.\nc) Sir Pelhem Francis Warner (aka Plum Warner and Grand Old Man of English Cricket)(born in Port of Spain) captained England in 1905-06.
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Rahul Dravid.\nDespite being Captain his Batting is not affected.Also he comes at # 2 and saves the Indians to lose early wickets.
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The term was originally used in cricket, and was connected with the custom of giving a hat or cap to a bowler who achieved the feat of taking three wickets in a row.\n\nThe term was first used to describe H.H. Stephenson's feat of dismissing three batsmen with consecutive deliveries in 1858 and was used in print for the first time in 1878.
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Captain requires a lot of qualities. So i think he cant become a captain.
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Michael Vaughan was the captain.\n\nHe still would be the captain for the upcoming ashes, but hes out due to injury.\n\nCheck out the link to be sure.
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Alistair Campbell, was the captain..\n\nAfter that, Heath Streak was the captain,  later Tatenda Taibu became the captain as all senior players decided not to play cricket due to some problems with the Zimbabwean Cricket board.
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cricket\nin progress. The beige strip is the cricket pitch. The people wearing black trousers on the far right are the umpires.]] Cricket is a team game played between two teams of eleven players each. It originated in its modern form in England, and is popular mainly in the countries of the Commonwealth. In the countries of South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, cricket is by far the most popular participatory and spectator sport. Cricket is a major sport in places such as England and Wales, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe and the English-speaking Caribbean. The length of the game (a game can last over six or more hours a day for up to five days), numerous intervals for lunch and tea and rich terminology help confuse those not familiar with the sport. For its fans, the sport and the intense rivalries between the top cricketing nations provide passionate entertainment that has occasionally given rise to diplomatic outrage. \nObjective and summary\nCricket is a bat and ball sport. The objective of the game is to score more runs (points) than the opposing team. A match is divided into innings. During an innings, one team bats while the other team bowls and fields. (Note: when referring to "a team's innings," one usually means that team's turn to bat.) Games may be played over one or two innings. For some one innings matches each team's innings may be restricted to a set number of fair deliveries to be bowled by the opposing team. The team batting first aims to set a target score for the opposition and the team batting second chases the target. The bowling team tries to limit the runs scored by the batting team and at the same time to get the opposition players out, an event which is described as 'taking a wicket'. Each player continues to bat until he is out; once he is out, he may not bat again in that innings. The team batting always has two batsmen on the field; once ten of the eleven players of the batting team have been dismissed (i.e. ten wickets have been taken) the innings comes to an end. The winner is the team which has scored the most runs. If the team batting last loses, they are said to have lost the match by m run(s), where m is the difference in scores between the teams. If the team batting last wins they are said to have won the match by n wickets, where n is the number of additional wicket(s) the opposing team needed to take to bring the innings to an end. If both teams score the same number of runs, and the team batting last has completed its last innings, the match is a tie. If the match cannot be completed before the allotted time for the match expires, the result is a draw. If the match has only single innings per side, with a set number of deliveries, and the match is abandoned without completion due to an impossibility of continuing the play, because of bad weather, unruly crowd or any such unlikely event or situation, the result is declared as No-Result. See also: Result \nLaws of cricket\nMain article: Laws of cricket The game is played in accordance with 42 laws of cricket, which have been developed by the Marylebone Cricket Club in discussion with the main cricketing nations. Teams may agree to alter some of the rules for particular games. Other rules supplement the main laws and change them to deal with particular circumstances. In particular, there are a number of modifications to the playing structure and fielding position rules that apply to one innings games that are restricted to a set number of fair deliveries. \nPlayers and officials\nMain articles: Cricketer, Umpire Each team consists of eleven players. Depending on his primary skills, a player may be classified as a specialist batsman or bowler. A balanced team usually has five or six specialist batsmen and four or five specialist bowlers. A player who excels in both fields is known as an all-rounder. One player of the team that is currently bowling takes up the role of a
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HE REPEATEDLY FAILED.\nWHEN A CAPTAIN,WHO BATS IN OPENING SLOT SHOULD NOT BE IN POOR FORM.\nSO HE WAS REMOVED.\nBUT I CANT DENY ANY POLITICS INVOLVED IN IT.
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It is easy to lead a well balanced team than leading a team which experienced continous failure.\n\nGanguly lead the team in most difficult situations when india was continouly experiencing defeats, and india got India's first away from home in 11 years when won against pakistan. \nWe cannot forget the way he improve the spirts of the team by removing his shirt and took india to the worldcup final.\nGanguly was considered as most successful captain ever indian team has seen in the last decade. \nThis sucess made him arrogant and made him a spectator now. \n\nDravid is kid who has got a good start as they played against bad teams. It too early to say dravid as good captian. Once he proves that in the forth coming world cup atleast by reaching the finals we can consider him  is as a better captain.\nUntil then it is only Saurav Ganguly is better than this new Dravid.
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RESPONSIBILITY HAS TO GO ALONG WITH ACCOUTABILITY.\n\nHOW?\n\nDRAVID be removed from CAPTAINCY and ODI-Why?\n\nThe worst captain- \ncould not control SA from 6 wicket down for 76; finally SA made 275. \nAny 18yrs child can do better job.\n\nHe made 63 in 103 balls and it is equvalent of 184 in 50 overs. This means he played for his retaintion in the team but not for win of INDIA. \nHE SCORED +50 for 63 but SCORED (NEGETIVE) -100 for playing TEST Match in ODI. \n\nThe net score of dravid is (negative)-50. This means he can play TEST but he shall be removed from ODI side of INDIA.\n\nShri DHONI be made CAPTAIN- Why?\n\n\nHe scored 55 in 48 balls, this is equivalent to 344 runs in 50 overs. Therefore he played for win of INDIA. HE GOT 50 FOR SCORING 55, and 100 FOR PLAYING FOR WIN OF INDIA and not mere for his retaintion in the team.\n\nTHEREFORE DHONI WITH 150 MARKS OUT OF 100 WILL THE CAPTAIN IN THE NEXT ODI\n\nShri DRAVID WITH (-)50 SCORE SHALL BE DROPPED FROM ODI AND RESERVED FOR TEST ONLY.\n\n\nThis is one example.\n\nWhat others?\n\npay proportion to performance\n\nif team win alright, if not remove 2 bat'mn, 2 blrs, 1 all rounder, keeper (if did badly).\n\nif could not win series;\nremove captain, coach, selectors, BCCI, \nMake a fresh selection of the team.\n\nIT WILL CERTAINLY WORK.
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Apparently from the game of cricket where the batter is known as the "striker".
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The captain's C is a symbol of leadership, it defines who the true leader of the team is.  The player with the C gets to question the referee, unless he is off the ice and that means the alternate captians who wear the A's talk to the ref.
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The captain of the Indian cricket team during the 1964/65 season was the Nawab of Pataudi Jr. - Mansoor Ali Khan. India played 2 series in this season. 1st against Australia where we played 3 matches with a win, a loss and a draw as the results. 2nd was played against New Zealand where we won a match and drawing 3 and thus winning the series.\n\n\nNot many people but the Nawab of Pataudi Sr. also captained India for a seaon in 1946 v/s England. We lost that series with a loss and 2 draws as the outcome of the 3 match series.
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All teams? Can i just direct you to this link, which has all the captains on it?\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_FIFA_World_Cup_%28squads%29