| INCAPACITY | Weakness I admitted in poor captaincy (10) |
| ESPIAL | Failure, I admitted in retrospect, making observation |
| LEADERSHIP | Fashionable royals have metal and captaincy (10) |
| WILLIAMSON | Kiwi batsman and captain who took over the SRH captaincy midway through IPL 2021 |
| ARDIESAVEA | All Black who took the captaincy after Sam Cane went off v South Africa (5,5) |
| BATTALIONS | Prohibitions brought about total calamity, I admitted, for groups of companies (10) |
| SINGLETONS | Only children admitted in play facilities, not wife (10) |
| SOLDIER | Join, in a way, when one gets admitted in private (7) |
| ASTHENIA | Weakness at that time admitted in large part of world |
| COEDS | Students that Princeton first admitted in 1969, in dated slang |
| PANT | Which Indian wicketkeeper scored a fearless 89 in Brisbane 2021 and became the first to hit Test centuries in both England and Australia under Kohli's captaincy?(Last Name) (4) |
| LEN | Under the captaincy of ... Hutton, England won back the Ashes for the first time in 20 years in 1953 |
| NEVERS | Poles always admitted in French city (6) |
| IGNOMINY | Shame nothing's admitted in disastrous mining year (8) |
| SURPRISE | Spin doctor's work is admitted in definite shock (8) |
| REHEARSAL | Catches admitted in actual show trial |
| INLET | Admitted in the wrong order? One's up the creek here |
| PATIENT | One admitted in clear case for treatment |
| LETIN | Admitted in a bulletin, finally (3,2) |
| NOSHOWS | We don't appear fit Home Secretary admitted in reversal |
