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Hit wicket in Test (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

swat

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'hit' is the definition.
(swatting is a kind of hitting)

'wicket in test' is the wordplay.
'wicket' becomes 'w'.
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'test' becomes 'sat' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'w' put into 'sat' is 'SWAT'.

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(Other definitions for swat that I've seen before include ".`Twas quite a blow" , "strike smartly" , "'Twas quite a smack" , "Twas something of a blow" , "Smack (a fly?)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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