Female coming in hates crappy cricket series (3,5)
I believe the answer is:
the ashes
'cricket series' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'female coming in hates crappy' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'female' could be 'she' (I've seen this before) and 'she' is found within the answer.
an anagram of 'hates' is 'theas' which is located in the answer.
No letters remain.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for the ashes that I've seen before include "Cricketing trophy" , "Trophy awarded in England-Australia cricket, sounds grubby" , "trees" , "Trophy for winner of AngloAustralian cricket series" .)