Offerings of drinks produced by Cricket Club - the first from India welcomed by those with pride (9)

I believe the answer is:

libations

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'india welcomed by those with pride' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.

'offerings of drinks produced by cricket club the first' is the wordplay.
'offerings of' becomes 'lions' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'drinks' indicates putting letters inside.
'produced by' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'cricket club' becomes 'bat' (I've seen this before).
'the first' becomes 'i' (I in Roman numerals eg Elizabeth I).
'bat'+'i' is 'bati'.
'lions' enclosing 'bati' is 'LIBATIONS'.

'from' acts as a link.

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(Another definition for libations that I've seen is " drinks".)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times (Crosaire) and the Irish Times.

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