In the West, a duck at the cricket club gets one beaten hollow! (8)
I believe the answer is:
occident
'in the west a' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this definition defines the answer.
'duck at the cricket club gets one beaten hollow' is the wordplay.
'duck' becomes 'o'.
'at' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'the cricket club' becomes 'cc'.
'gets' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'one beaten hollow' becomes 'ident' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'o'+'cc'+'ident'='OCCIDENT'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for occident that I've seen before include "The West as opposed to Orient" , "Europe and America" , "West End?" .)