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Our welcoming cricket club brings spring to mind (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

occur

'spring to mind' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'our welcoming cricket club' is the wordplay.
'welcoming' is an insertion indicator (in sense of 'inviting in').
'cricket club' becomes 'cc'.
'our' going around 'cc' is 'OCCUR'.

'brings' is the link.

(Other definitions for occur that I've seen before include "Befall" , "Come to pass" , "crop up" , "found" , "Happen, transpire" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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