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Summer pants and a top for the cricketer (5,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

short stop

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'the cricketer' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't judge whether it can be defined by this definition.

'summer pants and a top' is the subsidiary indication.
'summer pants' becomes 'shorts' (shorts is a kind of pants. I am not sure about the 'summer' bit.**).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'shorts'+'top'='shortstop'

'for' is the link.

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(Another definition for short stop that I've seen is " Baseball player".)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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