Supporters record cricket tournament - Test has no boundaries (9)

I believe the answer is:

disciples

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'supporters' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?

'record cricket tournament test has no boundaries' is the wordplay.
'record' becomes 'disc' (eg a CD, compact disc).
'cricket tournament' becomes 'ipl' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'has no boundaries' means to look at the middle letters (the letters at the boundaries are removed).
The middle letters of 'test' are 'es'.
'disc'+'ipl'+'es'='DISCIPLES'

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(Other definitions for disciples that I've seen before include "Following group" , "Adherents" , "Followers" .)

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