| HUSSAIN | Succeeded Alex Stewart as England cricket captain 1999 (7) |
| ATHERTON | Succeeded Graham Gooch as England cricket captain 1993 (8) |
| MA | Graham Gooch's successor as England cricket captain early 1990s, initials (2) |
| HODGSON | Roy ____ succeeded Fabio Capello as England manager |
| CARSLEY | Lee, interim successor to Gareth Southgate as England football coach (7) |
| SPENCER | Historical fiction film starring Kristen Stewart as Lady Diana (7) |
| RESULTS | "It's a - - - business," said Stuart Lancaster when he was sacked as England coach in 2015 (7) |
| WAUGH | Australian cricket captain 1999-2004 (5,5) |
| STEVE | Australian cricket captain 1999-2004 (5,5) |
| STEVEWAUGH | Australia's Test cricket captain, 1999-2004 |
| DENNESS | Mike ___, Scotland-born former Kent and England cricket captain (7) |
| STEWART | Former England cricket captain, Alec -- (7) |
| VAUGHAN | Michael, a former England cricket captain (7) |
| GATTING | Ex-England cricket captain (surname) (7) |
| HEATHER | ... Clare Knight, England cricket captain. (7) |
| COWDREY | Colin, former England cricket captain who died in 2000 (7) |
| STRAUSS | Andrew ....... , England cricket captain 2009- 12 (7) |
| JARDINE | Douglas, the England cricket captain in the bodyline tour of Australia, 1932-33 (7) |
| BENSTOKES | Cricketer who succeeded Joe Root as England Test cricket captain (3,6) |
| NASSER | ____ Hussain, English cricketer who succeeded Alec Stewart as Test captain in 1999 (6) |