Being a skip shows the captain trusts and believes in you; you're aim, as always, is to help the team win - however, it's your job to take the blame if you lose.......
Here are a few tips from a top professional New Zealand bowler for all skips to note (yours truly included). Peter Bellis says, however good skips are, they should regard themselves as being on a permanent learning curve along with every other player.
A good skip should be a statesman as well as an expert shot maker; confident, respectful of team members, supportive, and a good communicator! The skip doesn't put up with negative talk or non-constructive criticism and is guilty of neither.
A skip generally gets the congratulations when the team wins, so be sure to spread the credit around to other players. If the team loses, however, the skip should take full responsibility, regardless of the other team members' performance. To be a skip is a privilege show confidence in your team through your bearing and body language.
Oh, to have all those good qualities! We all have our faults, and this is a reminder to work on correcting them. Other team members will appreciate it.
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