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Cricket club try losing runs? That's crazy (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

batty

'crazy' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'cricket club try losing runs?' is the wordplay.
'cricket club' becomes 'bat' (I've seen this before).
'losing' is a deletion indicator.
'runs?' becomes 'r' (cricket abbreviation).
'try' with 'r' taken out is 'ty'.
'bat'+'ty'='BATTY'

'that's' is the link.

(Other definitions for batty that I've seen before include "out to lunch" , "Seemingly descriptive of vampire" , "Nuts" , "As mad as a mouselike mammal" , "not sound" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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