Typically Russian, he makes a duck for a cricket side (4)

I believe the answer is:

oleg

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'typically russian he' is the definition.
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'a duck for a cricket side' is the wordplay.
'a duck' becomes 'o' (resembles zero - 'duck' in cricket).
'for' says to put letters next to each other.
'a cricket side' becomes 'leg' (I've seen this before).
'o'+'leg'='OLEG'

'makes' is the link.

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