| He captained the team to win the National League in 1970 and went on to win All Star honours. |
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| He captained the Swindon Cubs under-tens ice hockey team to the national finals last season. |
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| He had captained the England Under-19 team and forced his way into the frame with some big hitting for Lancashire. |
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| Has anyone ever opened the batting, kept wicket and captained in the same Test? |
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| Briggs won back-to-back national intercollegiate titles and captained Harvard his senior year to a national title. |
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| It was there he honed his football skills and captained the junior team to a South Leinster title. |
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| It is hard to believe that this man captained an Essex side renowned for their humour and jolly japery. |
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| It was the 1930 series against a weakish MCC team captained by Harold Gilligan. |
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| In 1991, Noah captained France to the Davis Cup title, reclaiming the trophy after 59 years. |
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| Prince Gualtero has captained his own ship and Sullivan Trooper has been his right hand in both battles and enterprise. |
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| All the boats are captained by professional sailors but the rest of the crew are amateurs. |
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| Twelve years later he captained the British team when the Olympic Games were held in London. |
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| They inadvertently stow away on a ship captained by the explorer Cortes, managing to escape with the assistance of a horse. |
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| Victory in last weekend's European Cup final when he captained his country to a fifth success suggests he is on the right track. |
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| Desert Rats carried on their hundred percent winning streak by beating the Buriram Stompers captained by their new skip Phil. |
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| This time, he captained a fleet of four ships and was charged with finding a westward sea passage to East Asia. |
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| Keighley captained the Second XI for a while and was also in charge of the first team for one match. |
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| He was capped 44 times and captained Scotland when they beat England at Wembley. |
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| Meanwhile, SA A will be captained by Lions and Cats flanker Wikus van Heerden and includes 14 players who have been capped for the Springboks. |
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| His team colleagues, ably captained by Robbie Powell, covered very well and registered their best points tally of the season. |
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| Among the triumphs was the 1978 Grand Slam tour of Britain, in which he captained the first New Zealand team to beat the four home unions. |
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| It is at times the rudder that steadies and guides the ship of state captained by the Government. |
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| The boat was captained by Bob and his wife, Mary, whose mission was to feed everyone up until they matched her husband's giant proportions. |
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| I've never captained a team like this before and I wondered if there were any secrets. |
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| He captained the senior team in the year 1994 and in between those years he turned up to be a fine batsman. |
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| When he found the time, he also explored the African jungle in Gabon and captained a super yacht around the Mediterranean. |
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| I've always encouraged people to get along – that probably explains why I've captained a lot of the teams I played for. |
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| For 25 years I have been playing competitive tennis, and I also captained my team during international competitions. |
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| He bowled leg spin and captained with authority and intelligence. |
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| He played hockey in winter and captained his team, and in summer he trained for life saving in which he holds a number of Royal Life Saving Society awards. |
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| Despite the success, he felt cheated: why hadn't he captained England more often? |
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| The affable Jim, who captained both East Kerry and UCC to county championship honours, has adapted to the small ball game with the greatest of ease. |
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| During the Battle of Lepanto, the archbishop, now a galley slave, was likely on the Ottoman galley that rammed a ship captained by his brother. |
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| Eventually, he captained tugs along the B. C. coast and the western Arctic. |
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| In the latter he played every minute at the finals as he captained Italy to glory lifting the trophy on the night of his 100th cap. |
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| Jayne, who captained the host nation to victory, struggled to keep her emotions in check as the trophy was presented. |
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| It was captained by an Englishman named Tim Pickery, a mate called Corbett, five Frenchmen, 12 Englishmen and about 20 wild Irish kerns said to be men without mercy. |
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| In the end, it was sweet victory once again for the Scotiabank Nerdiques, ably captained by Dave Stevens for the second year in a row. |
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| Columbia was named after the Boston, Massachusetts based sloop captained by American Robert Gray. |
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| Back in Dublin he rowed for the university and captained the golf team. |
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| During the war he got the job of scow captain and has captained a number of scows since. |
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| This was successfully completed on 18 July 1866 by the ship SS Great Eastern, captained by Sir James Anderson after many mishaps along the away. |
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| The latter captained Barrow to their Challenge Cup victory and represented Great Britain at an international level. |
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| Coach Berti Vogts has called eight new players into his squad, which will be captained by Oliver Bierhoff after the retiral of Jurgen Klinsmann. |
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| In 1971 the British Prime Minister, Edward Heath, captained one of the winning boats. |
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| Between 1972 and 1977 Somerset were captained by the inspirational and combative Brian Close, whose influence on Ian Botham was considerable. |
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| Great Britain were captained by Welshman, Clive Sullivan who was the first black player to captain any British national sports team. |
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| In 2006 Banks captained a team of writers to victory in a special series of BBC Two's University Challenge. |
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| Kyle Coetzer became captain of the side in November 2016 after Preston Mommsen who had captained the side since September 2014 stepped down. |
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| The first confirmed sighting of Antarctica can be narrowed down to the crews of ships captained by three individuals. |
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| Agger captained the side and opened the scoring with a first-half header to set Liverpool on their way to a first win in three matches. |
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| Successful adaptation to new markets, growth and profitability all spell a promising future, captained by responsible management and a tremendous capacity to prepare the ground for future markets. |
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| Here, the west coast aboriginal people first set eyes on a European ship captained by Spanish explorer Juan Pérez in 1774, who named the headland after a second lieutenant. |
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| Boneshaker, captained by Scott Fawcett, won the 2011 Treasure Coast Sailfish Championship. |
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| Brother Peni Finau captained the national team in their quest to reach South Africa 2010, while cousin Esala Masi is widely regarded as Fiji's most famous export having played professionally for many years in Australia. |
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| Susan Elaine Criss has earned seven varsity letters in track and soccer and has twice captained her high school soccer team. |
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| The batsman Chris Lynn is the only other uncapped player in the squad which will be captained by George Bailey, who was omitted from the 15-man Test squad to face South Africa. |
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| Eighteen years have passed and Mclean has won 73 caps and captained England to a World Cup triumph while Wilson has played 41 times internationally. |
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| I believe it is fair to say, moreover, that you have captained the European ship with leadership and decisiveness, and I believe this should be stressed at this point. |
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| A former varsity athlete with the Memorial University of Newfoundland Sea-Hawks, Stevenson captained the men's volleyball team from 1987 to 1988 prior to embarking on a career in sport management. |
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| The disappointment of losing in the 1991 European Cup final was forgotten when a side captained by Didier Deschamps beat AC Milan to lift the trophy in 1993, Basile Boli's goal proving the difference in Munich. |
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| On the field, he captained Honduras at the 1982 FIFA World Cup? in Spain, while off it, he has been their most successful manager of the last 20 years. |
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| It was one of the most treacherous areas on the east coast, one where the Bluenose on several occasions aptly skipped through that treacherous water known as the graveyard of the Atlantic, captained by Angus Walters. |
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| The longtime fan favourite has also enjoyed an outstanding international career which was punctuated when he captained the U. S. team to the Presidents Cup victory last fall. |
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| Not many people have won major honours as both player and coach but Silvia Neid is in that select band having captained Germany to 1989 and 1991 success. |
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| Dede Ayew, at 18, is being tipped to follow in the footsteps of his father Abedi Pele, who captained Ghana and was a three-time African Footballer of the Year. |
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| Captained by Flight Lieutenant Martin Withers, XM607 was originally assigned as the reserve aircraft to the mission's primary bomber, XM598 which was captained by Squadron Leader John Reeve. |
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| A natural leader, he has even captained his country on occasion. |
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| The talented central defender, who captained the Duke University women's side in 2003, is one of the only full-time professionals in the New Zealand side. |
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| West Germany, captained by Fritz Walter, met in the 1954 World Cup Turkey, Yugoslavia and Austria. |
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| England, managed by Alf Ramsey and captained by Bobby Moore, won the toss and elected to kick off. |
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| Club captain Doug Prentice captained the 1930 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia. |
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| To mark the occasion, on 5 July an MCC XI captained by Sachin Tendulkar played a Rest of the World XI led by Shane Warne in a 50 overs match. |
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| The first British tour of the Southern Hemisphere began on 4 June 1910 captained by James Lomas. |
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| He captained the Lions to South Africa in 1997, and in 1999 was appointed captain of England. |
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| She forces Jack aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge, a ship captained by the infamous pirate Blackbeard, Angelica's father. |
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| Paul McGinley captained the successful European team for the 2014 Ryder Cup. |
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| There were navigation schools in the town and many of the last square riggers that sailed the world were captained by New Quay men. |
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| Then, in 1933, captained by Watcyn Thomas, Wales defeated England at Twickenham. |
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| Munster had led pretty much from the start of the season with a team largely captained by Mick O'Driscoll showing Munster's squad depth. |
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| He captained England for the 50th time in a friendly international against Argentina the following month. |
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| The other states that the bay was discovered on December 13, 1526 by a small ship named the El Tepache Santiago captained by Santiago Guevara. |
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| Jacob van Heemskerk captained the first ship, and Barents served as its pilot. |
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| For the 2000, 2008 and 2013 World Cups, the Bati were captained by Lote Tuqiri, Wes Naiqama and the legendary Petero Civoniceva respectively. |
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| The first English ship, which had arrived on 14 May 1625, was captained by John Powell. |
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| She was a keen sportswoman and captained the school hockey team. |
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| The Somerset left-hander captained an under-strength England line-up to an eight-wicket victory over a Carib Beer XI after electing to try and rediscover his form. |
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| South Africa's leading runscorer Jacques Kallis, who captained the side for one Test against Australia in Johannesburg three years ago, will be skipper in Cape Town. |
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| In August, 1454 at the age of 22, Alvise and his brother Antonio embarked on a Venetian merchant galley, captained by Marco Zen, destined for Flanders. |
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| Arthur Beetson, Laurie Daley and Gorden Tallis captained Australia in Rugby League and the annual NSW Koori Knockout and Murri Rugby League Carnival. |
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| The Irish, captained by Sir Tim O'Brien, won convincingly by 238 runs. |
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| A second caravel, considered the fastest ship in the fleet and captained by Nicolau Coelho, was sent ahead to give the King advance notice of the voyage's success. |
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| Giggs captained the Salford team to victory over their Blackburn counterparts, was man of the match, and the trophy was presented to him by Liverpool chief scout Ron Yeats. |
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| Geoff Boycott captained Yorkshire for most of the 1970s, but success eluded the team even when Boycott left Test cricket for three years to concentrate on the county game. |
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| Australia, now captained by Allan Border, had themselves been weakened by a rebel South African tour, the loss of Terry Alderman being a particular factor. |
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| In the event, England, captained by Flintoff who was deputising for the injured Vaughan, lost all five Tests to concede the first Ashes whitewash in 86 years. |
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| The 24-strong team captained by foilist Jonny Allatt from Newcastle stormed its way to third place of the First Division in this prestigious event. |
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| The first ship and crew to chart the Australian coast and meet with Aboriginal people was the Duyfken captained by Dutch navigator, Willem Janszoon. |
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| The first recorded voyage through the passage was that of Eendracht, captained by the Dutch navigator Willem Schouten in 1616, naming Cape Horn in the process. |
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