Sort of cable company with a cricket team that's always lazy to begin with (7)
I believe the answer is:
coaxial
'sort of cable' is the definition.
'company with a cricket team that's always lazy to begin with' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'company' could be 'co' (abbreviation) and 'co' is found within the answer.
'a' is found in the answer.
'team' could be 'xi' (a football team, from Roman numerals for 11) and 'xi' 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?
(Other definitions for coaxial that I've seen before include "with one line shielding another" , "cable type" .)