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Sort of cricket pundit, an oddball about term for fielder (3-3-3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tip-and-run

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'sort of cricket' is the definition.
'tip and run' can be an answer for 'cricket' (I've seen this before). I'm not sure about the 'sort of' bit.

'pundit an oddball about term for fielder' is the wordplay.
'oddball' indicates anagramming the letters.
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'term for' indicates one should take the final letters (the letter which terminates the word).
The final letter of 'fielder' is 'r'.
'pundit'+'an'='punditan'
'punditan' with letters rearranged gives 'tipandun'.
'tipandun' enclosing 'r' is 'TIP-AND-RUN'.

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(Another definition for tip-and-run that I've seen is " Informal game of cricket".)

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