Only when disaster was imminent would a captain order such a thing.
No shots were fired, though at one stage an Icelandic captain did order his guns to be manned, in the face of somewhat superior firepower from a Royal Navy frigate.
The storm was warning us off, but the captain gave no order to change course.
Like a city, the ship has a fire and emergency response capability and its own security organization, including security forces, legal services, brig and a process by which the captain enforces good order and discipline.
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An experimental batting order threw up captain Andrew Strauss and Bopara as its openers, and that plan backfired as Strauss departed in the seventh over, flapping at a ball he could barely reach outside the off-stump and hitting it to point.
The first one-day clash between South Africa and England is now set to get under way at Centurion on Sunday, following Friday's wash-out at The Wanderers, and Hashim Amla will replace Kallis at the top of the order, alongside captain Graeme Smith.
"We felt that we probably underperformed a little bit on the first day and as a captain and a top-order batter the last thing I want to do is bat on a wicket that I don't think we can make any runs on, " he said.
And captain Kumar Sangakkara admitted their top-order collapse was the main reason for their below-par performance.
The 32-year-old and the recalled Devon Smith are vying to partner captain Chris Gayle at the top of the order.
Younis also dismissed captain Mahela Jayawardene, who had been anchoring the middle order with 31 from 56 balls, with a direct hit from cover.
The former England Under-21 captain returned to the Boro side after a groin injury in order to strengthen the options for boss Gordon Strachan, in the Teessiders' third meeting with Billy Davies' East Midlanders this season.
Tokyo was expected to decide whether to charge the captain by September 29, the date the most-recent detention order was to expire.
Yet England were working their way through the middle order effectively, and received a spectacular bonus when Pakistan's captain, the destructive Shahid Afridi, ran himself out from his first ball as he pondered taking a single to Luke Wright off Yardy that was never on.
Australia captain Ricky Ponting and his deputy Michael Clarke have already pulled out of the competition in order to focus on international cricket commitments.
The captain's role is also to choose his wildcards and organise the pairings and singles order and McDowell insists Montgomerie performed his role to perfection.
This peculiarly misconceived comedy stars Eddie Murphy in a dual role, as Dave, a humanoid spaceship that lands on Earth in order to move unnoticed among earthlings, and as the tiny outer-space homunculus who is its captain.
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