As strange as it may seem given the heights that Rhian Brewster had just reached, when England jubilantly returned to their dressing room in India yesterday his was not the name on everyone’s lips.

Instead the Liverpool teenager, who had just scored his second successive hat-trick to propel his side into Saturday’s World Cup final, joined in with his team-mates as they burst into song.

The strains of Happy Birthday rang out in honour of Jonathan Panzo, the Chelsea left back who turned 17 yesterday, although it was not long before the focus returned to Brewster and another ritual was played out.

Brewster was part of the Liverpool squad who toured Australia in the summer MATT KING/GETTY IMAGES

After the forward knocked out the United States in the quarter-finals four days ago with a hat-trick, his England colleagues scrawled messages on