| ZAMPA | Leading Australian men's white-ball leg-spinner (5) |
| EXTRA | Wide, no-ball, leg bye, etc (5) |
| BAILEY | Former Aussie men's white-ball captain now national selector (6) |
| ACES | Auckland men's white-ball cricket team nickname (4) |
| AHEAD | Leading Australian with small margin of victory on course (5) |
| TASSO | Thanks to a leading Australian orchestra, this is a top 16th century Italian poet (5) |
| RIXON | Identify this wicketkeeper who made his debut for Australia versus India in the 1977-78 series when most of the leading Australian cricketers signed for World Series Cricket? (5) |
| GLENN | Which Australian white-ball cricket specialist retired from ODIS recently? (5) |
| FAWAD | Pakistan-born Australian leg spinner, ... Ahmed (5) |
| WARNE | Shane, former Australian leg spinner (5) |
| SLEEP | South Australian leg-spinner figured 1986-87 Ashes series (5) |
| SAMMY | West Indies coach in red ball matches: Coley; West Indies coach in white ball matches: ? (5) |
| DEATH | White-ball cricket term, -bowler (5) |
| MILLS | Black Caps red/white-ball pace stalwart 2001-15 (5) |
| JACOB | Black Caps white-ball seam bowler, - Duffy (5) |
| BOWES | South African-born Black Caps white-ball opening bat debutant 2023 (5) |
| DHONI | Inspirational Indian red/white-ball cricket captain 2007-17 (5) |
| ABDUL | ___ Qadir, Pakistani former leg spinner (5) |
| HOHNS | Former Aussie Test leg-spinner, Trevor _ (5) |
| ONTOP | Leg spinner leading the averages? (2,3) |
