Examine pitch initially used in cricket? (7)
I believe the answer is:
inspect
'examine' is the definition.
(inspecting is a kind of examining)
'pitch initially used in cricket?' is the wordplay.
'pitch initially' becomes 'p' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'used in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'cricket?' becomes 'insect' (cricket is a kind of insect).
'p' going into 'insect' is 'INSPECT'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for inspect that I've seen before include "Look over carefully" , "Ecamine closely" , "Scrutinise" , "Go over" , "test" .)