| EDJENKINS | A former captain of the Australian rugby sevens team (2,7) |
| ABEDI | ..... Pele, in football, a former captain of the Ghana national team (5) |
| OCONNOR | Former dual international served as long-time Australian rugby Sevens coach (7) |
| KANGAROOS | Nickname for members of the Australian rugby league team |
| WALLABY | Marsupial mascot of the Australian rugby union team (7) |
| ROOSTERS | Current name of the Australian rugby league club who started as Eastern Suburbs in 1908 (8) |
| BILLBEAUMONT | Former captain of the England rugby union team and the British Lions who became a captain on the BBC quiz show A Question of Sport |
| ANDYNICOL | Former captain of Bath who was the first British player to lift the Heineken Cup |
| ALLANBORDER | Former captain of the Australian cricket team who held the world record for consecutive Test appearances before it was surpassed by Alastair Cook in 2018 (5.6) |
| LISA | ... Sthalekar, former captain of the Australian women's cricket team. (4) |
| LUCASNEILL | Former captain of the Australian football team whose British clubs included Millwall, Blackburn Rovers and West Ham United |
| BOTHAM | Former captain of the England cricket team who was the first man to score over 100 runs and take eight wickets in a single innings of a Test match (6) |
| INVERNESS | Playing inaugural rugby sevens in one end of 7Dn 4Dn (9) |
| BEAUMONT | Bill --. former captain of the England and British Lions rugby union teams. chairman of World Rugby since 2016 (8) |
| VIRAT | Indian cricketer who is the former captain of the Indian national cricket team, _ Kohli (5) |
| MALIK | Shoaib ---, former captain of the Pakistani national cricket team (5) |
| LAUDRUP | Michael, former captain of the Danish national football team (7) |
| WARNE | Shane -; former captain of the Australia national cricket team (5) |
| STACY | Former captain of the Canadian national women's hockey team Wilson |
| CRONJE | Former captain of the South African cricket team, Hansie ... (6) |
