Example sentences of "over the captaincy " in BNC.
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| 1 | His place in the second row is taken by Scotland 's Damian Cronin , with England 's Rob Andrew taking over the captaincy . |
| 2 | Hobbs , who last played for Great Britain in France in 1987 , returns to international favour on the strength of the maturity he has displayed since taking over the captaincy at Bradford this season . |
| 3 | In 1983 he took over the captaincy of Jamaica when Rowe went to South Africa but found it a difficult business , perhaps because he is too quiet and introspective for cricket leadership . |
| 4 | In 1986 he took over the captaincy from Fletcher and led them to their third championship in four years , but early in 1987 he suffered a bad loss of form and the team slipped right down the table . |
| 5 | Allan Lamb took over the captaincy and did his best , but it soon became clear that without Gooch they were nothing like the same team . |
| 6 | This was clearly to prepare him for the task of taking over the captaincy the next summer . |
| 7 | In 1952 he took over the captaincy from Michael Barton . |
| 8 | He would dearly like to hand over the captaincy at the end of next August after having retained the Ashes on his fifth tour to England . |
| 9 | Gooch is due to fly home from the sub-continent after the last one-day international against India on March 5 , handing over the captaincy to Alec Stewart for the Sri Lankan leg of the tour . |
| 10 | In 1938 Cranmer was asked to take over the captaincy from Bob Wyatt . |
| 11 | Bill Dodd 's retirement saw Cyril Proby take over the captaincy and Plumb began the job of squad rebuilding . |
| 12 | Some still persist in their view that Morris burnt his boat when he chose previously to hand over the captaincy , saying in effect that he thought his cricket was suffering because of it . |
| 13 | McCoist , who had taken over the captaincy from the injured Richard Gough , shrugged his shoulders and said : ‘ We 've grown used to all those injuries and learned to accept them . |