Flatulence of cricket team beginning to subside around November (9)

'flatulence' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'cricket team beginning to subside around november' is the wordplay.
'cricket team' becomes 'windies' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'beginning to' says to take the initial letters.
'around' indicates putting letters inside.
'november' becomes 'N' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
The initial letter of 'subside' is 's'.
'windies'+'s'='windiess'
'windiess' placed around 'n' is 'WINDINESS'.

'of' is the link.

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