Laments from cricket side I see playing outside (7)
I believe the answer is:
elegies
'laments' is the definition.
('elegy' can be a synonym of 'lament')
'cricket side i see playing outside' is the wordplay.
'cricket side' becomes 'leg' (I've seen this before).
'playing' indicates an anagram.
'outside' is an insertion indicator (some letters go outside others).
'see' with letters rearranged gives 'ees'.
'leg'+'i'='legi'
'legi' put within 'ees' is 'ELEGIES'.
'from' is the link.
(Other definitions for elegies that I've seen before include "Laments for the dead" , "Poems of mourning" , "Mourning songs" , "Lamenting poems" .)