| INDIGO | Batting for an innings and reaching zero, makes one colour |
| INDIGOS | The blues are batting for an innings overseas |
| PEACOCKBLUE | A firm kiss with Tory about to make one colour |
| CARRYONESBAT | Open an innings and be not out after all other wickets have fallen (5,4,3) |
| KNOCK | Informal word for an innings in cricket; a rap on a door; or, a noise in an engine caused by detonation (5) |
| LIFTOFF | One left looking skyward, count finally reaching zero, deafening around it? |
| COMETONOTHING | Fail to materialise but count down, reaching zero (4,2,7) |
| SCROOGE | Miser goes mad about credit reaching zero (7) |
| DECLARES | Ends the innings and makes announcement (8) |
| OPENER | Needed for cricket at the start of innings and at drinks (6) |
| BALDRIC | Belt for a sword worn over one shoulder and reaching down to the opposite hip (7) |
| PEAKING | One entering old capital and reaching the highest point (7) |
| DOUBLEHEADER | In 2020's MLB season, each game of one was seven innings ... and what each word of three long answers can have |
| DANISH | Who scored 150+ runs in the first innings and 70+ runs in the second for Vidarbha in the Ranji final against Kerala? (6) |
| DECLARED | Stopped innings and, after 500, cleared out (8) |
| INSANE | Out of one's mind when batting for a state to the north east |
| BEGINNINGS | Ask for a turn at batting, for starting points (10) |
| SPATS | Short gaiters covering the instep and reaching just above the ankle (5) |
| RHINE | River rising in Switzerland and reaching the North Sea near Rotterdam (5) |
| OREL | Hershiser who pitched a record 59 consecutive scoreless innings (and whose first name is aptly found in "scoreless") |
