Report of cricket's unfortunate downfall? (4,7,4)
I believe the answer is:
rain stopped play
'report of cricket's unfortunate' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I cannot tell whether this works.
'downfall?' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'downfall?' could be 'rain' (rain is a kind of downfall) and 'rain' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for rain stopped play that I've seen is " Why the abandonment".)