Delivery at head of tailender managed to get umpires’ review (8)
I believe the answer is:
transfer
'delivery' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'head of tailender managed to get umpires' review' is the wordplay.
'head of' indicates taking the first letters.
'managed' becomes 'ran' (I've seen this before).
'to get umpires'' becomes 'refs' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'review' says the letters should be written backwards.
The first letter of 'tailender' is 't'.
'refs' backwards is 'sfer'.
't'+'ran'+'sfer'='TRANSFER'
'at' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for transfer that I've seen before include "Reassign" , "Move (something) across" , "player's move" , "Change to another group or surface" , "Move something from one place to another" .)