Prior to the accident he had captained England 22 times, and, being only 27, was expected to lead them in the 1966 World Cup ; but he was never again selected for the national team.

He was representing England in a side captained by Jardine.

They did, however, unite for one match in Sydney, which England, captained by Walter Read, won.

", he played first-class cricket for a record-equalling 44 seasons, from 1865 to 1908, during which he captained England, Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, the Gentlemen, MCC, the United South of England Eleven and several other teams.

Grace captained England in the First Test of the 1899 series against Australia at Trent Bridge, when he was 51.

* July – The English ship Mary and Margaret, captained by Christopher Newport, leaves England bound for Jamestown, Virginia.

The Patience, captained by his nephew, Matthew Somers, returned to England, instead of Virginia.

A former ladies player, Catherine Spencer, captained the England Ladies team to a grand slam in 2008.

The White Ship was a newer vessel captained by Thomas FitzStephen, whose father Stephen FitzAirard had been captain of the ship Mora for William the Conqueror when he invaded England in 1066.

His performances led to selection for the England under-19 team, which he captained aged 16.

He captained England for the first time for the final 10 minutes of the match in a 1 – 2 loss against France on 17 November 2010, when both Rio Ferdinand and Steven Gerrard had been substituted.

He was appointed England Captain in 1959 for a Test match against the country of his birth-he captained England 27 times, appointed and re-appointed due to ill health in 1959-62, 1966, and 1967-69 ( Won 8, Drawn 15, Lost 4 ).

* A " Rest of the World " team captained by Garry Sobers playes five unofficial Test matches against England winning the series 4 – 1.

A few days later, the official Australian team was humbled in the first Test against England at Brisbane, a precursor to a 5 – 1 thrashing for a side now captained by the unprepared Graham Yallop.

He captained England during their campaigns at the 1950, 1954 and 1958 World Cup finals.

Owen was the youngest England skipper since Bobby Moore in 1963, and in the following few seasons regularly captained England during any absence of the regular captain.

He captained England B in this game, playing for 61 minutes before being substituted.

Charles ( Charlie ) Wreford-Brown ( 9 October 1866 – 26 November 1951 ) captained the England national football team and was a county cricketer during the Victorian age, and later acted as a sports legislator during the 20th century.

He first played as a goalkeeper but played initially as a stop-gap but later as the mainstay centre-half for the Old Carthusians ( the club for ex-Charterhouse boys ) ( appearing against them in the 1896 London Charity Cup Final, Clifton Association ( the Association which took in Bristol and its environs and with whom he played in the inaugural Gloucestershire Cup ), as well as the Corinthians and captained England twice against Wales in 1894 and 1895 ( when the team consisted entirely of amateur players ).

* England, captained by WG Grace, win The Ashes 2 – 0.

Smith captained England in 25 of his 50 Test match appearances, yet in a period rich in batting talent he was rarely guaranteed a place.

Also in 1919, the British were the first to cross the Atlantic in an airship when the R34 captained by Major George Herbert Scott of the Royal Air Force with his crew and passengers flew from East Fortune, Scotland to Mineola, Long Island, covering a distance of about in about four and a half days ; he then made a return trip to England, thus also completing the first double crossing of the Atlantic ( east – west – east ).

In the West Indies series of 1998-99, Cronje captained South Africa to their only whitewash in a five Test series.

* In Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, an early 1990s Japanese anime television series based on Jules Verne's 20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea and set in 1889, there is a submarine called the Nautilus, which is also captained by a Captain Nemo.

A number of well-known people were educated at Dumfries Academy, among them Henry Duncan, founder of the world's first commercial savings bank, Sir James Anderson, who captained the SS Great Eastern on the Transatlantic telegraph cable laying voyages in 1865 and 1866, James Matthew Barrie, author of Peter Pan, missionary Jane Haining, international diplomat Alexander Knox Helm, John Laurie, actor ( Private Fraser in Dad's Army ), artist Robin Philipson, singer John Hanson, Alex Graham, cartoonist best known for the Fred Basset series and Jock Wishart, who in 1998 set a new world record for circumnavigating the globe in a powered vessel.

Released to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the series, it also contains several minutes of new footage that depicted story events that were initially planned but not animated for the endings of the television series ( the launch of the Megaroad colonization ship captained by Misa Ichijyo ) and the film ( the final concert on Earth for Lynn Minmay ).

In 1966-67, Sobers captained the West Indies team to India in 1966-67 and they won the series 2-0 with one match drawn.

In 1968-69, Sobers captained the West Indian cricket team in Australia in 1968-69 but they lost the series 3-1 and then drew a three-Test series in New Zealand 1-1.

Sobers captained West Indies for the five-Test home series versus India in 1970-71.

He captained England to an Ashes series victory in Australia in 1986 / 87.

Ponting was overlooked the ODI vice-captaincy, with Gilchrist given the role ; however, Ponting captained a Northern Territory XI against the West Indies in the lead-up to the upcoming series.

They consequently struggled for almost 20 years before finally reaching their first finals series in 1985 with a team boasting new local star Greg Alexander and captained by Royce Simmons.

Considered the underdogs against the first place New York Rangers captained by Mark Messier, the Canucks initially fell behind three games to one but pushed the series to seven games.

In July 2010, Afridi captained Pakistan in the first Test of the series at Lord's against England.

A Rest of the World side, captained by Gary Sobers and including 5 of the South African team, played a 5 match ' Test ' series instead and Arlott happily rejoined the TMS commentary team to cover those matches.

The series is named after Australia's Allan Border and India's Sunil Gavaskar, who both scored over 10, 000 Test runs in their career and captained their respective teams.

In 1929 the All Blacks toured Australia, Towers was in two of the three Test sides captained by Tom Lawton which for the first time in history beat the All Blacks 3-0 in a series whitewash.

Shakib Al Hasan captained Bangladesh during their historic Test series win against West Indies in 2009. In the ODI series which followed Bangladesh secured their first ever ODI win against the West Indies at the 14th attempt.

He was educated at the prestigious Royal College, Colombo, where he played for the college cricket team, debuting in the Royal-Thomian series in 1925, and captained the rugby team at the annual " Royal-Trinity Encounter " ( which later became known as the Bradby Shield Encounter ).

He captained both Victoria and Australia, and was best known for his dignified and moral conduct during the tumultuous bodyline series in 1932 – 33 that almost saw the end of Anglo-Australian cricketing ties.

In December 2008 he captained the first South African side that won a test series against Australia on their soil, in the course inflicting the first home defeat on the opponents in 16 years.