| GAVASKAR | Sunil --, Indian opening batsman (8) |
| BLESSING | Grace, opening batsman, gets unusual singles (8) |
| ATHERTON | No threat (anag) - former opening batsman Mike (8) |
| OUTFIRST | Naturally an opening batsman usually is? (3,5) |
| TOMCLARK | Opening batsman who won seven successive County Championship titles with Surrey in the 1950s having previously played football for Walsall |
| NARINE | West Indies right-arm spinner and left-handed batsman, Sunil ... (6) |
| SON | Sanjay Dutt to Sunil Dutt? |
| DUTT | Sanjay or Sunil |
| SHETTY | Sunil or Shilpa of Bollywood |
| SUNIL | Indian Test Cricket's great opening batsman, ... Gavaskar |
| GEOFFREYBOYCOTT | Ex-Yorkshire and England opening batsman (8,7) |
| RUPEE | Nice street contains gym, the bit Sunil mainly uses? (5) |
| JOSHI | Sunil ..... , lndia Test cricketer who took 5-142 against Bangladesh at Dhaka in 2000 (5) |
| SANJEEV | Actor who plays DI Sunil Khan in Unforgotten, _ Bhaskar (7) |
| ROHANKANHAI | West Indies captain after whom Sunil Gavaskar named his son (5,6) |
| SANJAY | This Bollywood actor, son of Sunil Dutt and Nargis, made his debut in Rocky (1981) and is widely recognized for his iconic role as Munna Bhai in the Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. film series.(First Name) (6) |
| MOXON | Martyn --, former Yorkshire captain and opening batsman (5) |
| AMLA | Hashim, South African ex-opening batsman (4) |
| BOYCOTT | Geoffrey ---, Yorkshire and England opening batsman |
| PUB | Local back-up given to opening batsman (3) |
