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Most boring cricket match involving Durham's tail-enders (6)

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I believe the answer is:

tamest

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'most boring' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are superlative adjectives. Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'cricket match involving durham's tail-enders' is the wordplay.
'cricket match' becomes 'test' (a test is a kind of cricket match).
'involving' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'durham's tail-enders' becomes 'am' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'test' enclosing 'am' is 'TAMEST'.

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(Other definitions for tamest that I've seen before include "Meekest or least wild" , "Least wild, most domesticated" , "Least exciting" , "Most docile" , "Most restrained or quiet" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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