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Does he count what the players get in twenties? (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

scorer

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'does he count what the players get in twenties?' is the definition.
The answer is a person as well as being a singular noun. This is suggested by the definition.

'does he count' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'count' could be 'score' (I've seen this before) and 'score' is present in the answer.
A single letter 'r' remains which might be clued in a way I don't see.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for scorer that I've seen before include "Keeper of the tally" , "Sir, not one without heart as a" , "Cricket bookkeeper" , "player achieving a touchdown?" , "Cricket statistician" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish News.
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