Skippered

A pillar at centre-back, Williamson has been an integral part of the England set-up and skippered the side to their first major trophy at Euro 2022.

Skippered by Zach Johnson, Team USA boasts a 12-man line-up that includes Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, Patrick Cantlay, Collin Morikawa and Jordan Spieth.

The Scotland under-21 cap skippered Lincoln City to an EFL Cup win against Sheffield United to earn a third round tie against West Ham.

The side, skippered by Rohit Sharma, were aware Bumrah would miss the season as the yorker specialist underwent lower-back surgery in March and has been out of action since September last year.

Vettel is an investor in the new team skippered by two-time Olympic medallist Erik Heil.

Winning back-to-back titles at the global showpiece has proven difficult with only the Richie McCaw-skippered New Zealand achieving the feat, in 2011 and 2015.

And former Tottenham Hotspur boss Tim Sherwood, who skippered Blackburn Rovers to the championship back in 1995, believes people were too quick to ignore the title claims of the Reds.

Emily Orr, executive director for the T Buck Suzuki Foundation, grew up in a fishing family and fished for 12 years under her father’s licence, and skippered the boat when he semi-retired.

South African yacht Dare To Dream, skippered by Cape Town's Ryan Gibson, leads the Clipper race overall.

Tait Jordan, who skippered the side to both grand finals, said it was "pretty unreal".

Maguire skippered England to a 3-0 victory against Ireland and the suspended defender will travel with the squad to Belgium, where Harry Kane will wear the captain's armband once again.

As expected, captain Merab Sharikadze is not fit enough to play and instead the side will be skippered by loose-head prop Mikheil Nariashvili, and also includes giant flank Mamuka Gorgodze, who is also playing at his fourth World Cup.

The Dailly-born ace skippered his country in draws with Croatia and Lithuania.

The team is skippered by Jeffrey Oluoch.

Kane has also been recognised in the New Year Honours, having skippered England with aplomb in Russia and won the Golden Boot after finishing top scorer at the World Cup.

The other time the 25-year-old skippered United was the shock 3-2 defeat at Brighton, where he admitted afterwards that his “attitude was not right enough” in a bad overall display.

The match was the first time since the 2006 World Cup that Beckham had skippered England and marked a dramatic turnaround for Beckham.