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Cricketer's crime? (3-3-3)

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hit-and-run

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'crime?' is the definition.
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(Other definitions for hit-and-run that I've seen before include "Involving driver who leaves scene of accident without stopping" , "Of accident, where the driver did not stop" , "Kind of motor accident" , "Type of road accident" , "Accident in which driver flees from scene" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times (Crosaire) and the Sydney Morning Herald.
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