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[The Palmist]

Will look good on your CV and may help you develop leadership skills which you can use later on in life. Go for it mate, if you don't enjoy you can always quit. At least you won't be wondering what it would have been like.

[horseman]

At 17 you should enjoy your bat and your keeping. Plenty of time to skipper later on. Try play at the highest level you can whikst enjoying it.

[pacman75cricket]

Just be careful wicketkeeping is quite a bit to do a young agelet alonee captaincy on top

[Gingerbusiness]

You're to young to captain; you can't buy the beers

Cracking response!

I agree with many of the points. I used to captain the 1s at my club, but my performance suffered. Since giving up captaincy I've taken 48 and 63 wickets in two seasons and averaged over 30 with the bat.

It shouldn't be under estimated the pressure that captaining puts on someone. At 17, vice-captaincy is a good option and will teach you the necessary skills to become a future captain. Just like a builder or plumber, you need to learn your trade - hopefully someone very experienced will get it and you can learn from them

[charliemott]

Thanks for the responses guys, i think im going to try and play as high as i can for the time being and then see what path that leads me down! Fingers crossed for May 2014 now!