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Immediately bowled in match: duck! (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

subito

'immediately' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'bowled in match duck' is the wordplay.
'bowled' becomes 'b' (cricket abbreviation).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'match' becomes 'suit' (suiting is a kind of matching).
'duck' becomes 'o' (resembles zero - 'duck' in cricket).
'b' put inside 'suit' is 'subit'.
'subit'+'o'='SUBITO'

(Other definitions for subito that I've seen before include "(In music) suddenly" , "Immediately" , "Suddenly musical" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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