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Incredibly old cricket side about to get a lot of praise in Welsh town (9)

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I believe the answer is:

dolgellau

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'a lot of praise in welsh town' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot judge whether it can be defined by this definition.

'incredibly old cricket side about to' is the wordplay.
'incredibly' indicates an anagram.
'cricket side' becomes 'leg' (I've seen this before).
'about' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'to' becomes 'lau' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'leg' backwards is 'gel'.
'old' with letters rearranged gives 'dol'.
'dol'+'gel'+'lau'='DOLGELLAU'

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(Other definitions for dolgellau that I've seen before include "somewhere in Wales" , "Welsh market town, lug old ale (anag.)" , "Town in Snowdonia" , "Welsh community" , "town in Wales" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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