Left to urge Armstrong to play a cricket stroke? (3,6)
I believe the answer is:
leg glance
'play a cricket stroke?' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether it can be defined by this definition.
'left to urge armstrong' is the wordplay.
'left' becomes 'l' (common abbreviation).
'to urge' becomes 'egg' (as in egging someone on).
'armstrong' becomes 'lance' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'l'+'egg'+'lance'='LEG GLANCE'
'to' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for leg glance that I've seen is " one played at cricket".)