This year’s Lederer will be held at the RAC in central London. The following teams will be playing

The Holders: Bernard Teltscher, Victor Silverstone, Phil King, Stelio DeBello, Willie Coyle, with President’s team regular John Matheson replacing Tom Townsend this time.

England Open: Andrew Robson, Tony Forrester, David Gold and David Bakhshi – a formidable team who will be representing England in the Bermuda Bowl later this year.

England Women: Sally Brock, Nicola Smith, Heather Dhondy and Catherine Draper, four members of the England gold-medal winning team at the World Mind Games in Beijing in 2014, with two of Scotland’s finest – Liz McGowan and Sam Punch.

England Seniors: Paul Hackett, David Mossop, Gunnar Hallberg, John Holland, Colin Simpson and David Price – European Senior gold-medallists.

Zia and Friends: Zia Mahmood, Roy Welland, Sabine Auken and Denis Bilde – four international superstars.

De Botton: Janet de Botton, Artur Malinowski, Nick Sandqvist, Tom Townsend and Thor Erik Hoftaniska – this team has won just about every major English competition and quite a few international ones as well.

Gillis: Simon Gillis is bringing along a team of Norwegian stars including Boye Brogeland and Espen Lindqvist.

Gold Cup: Andrew McIntosh, Stefan Skorchev, Cameron Small, Jonathan Cooke, Dror Padon and Lee Rosenthal. Since most of the current Gold Cup winners are playing in other teams, Gold Cup holder Andrew McIntosh is accompanied by a team comprising mainly last year’s runners-up, but still a very strong squad.

Ireland: Mark Moran, Tom Hanlon, Tommy Garvey, John Carroll and Rory Boland – the ever-popular and highly successful Irish squad.

London: Still to be determined.