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Weekend Peer Review 93

Welcome to our weekend competition to compose a cryptic clue to be judged by your fellow contestants.
You may enter as many clues as you like, and everyone is welcome, particularly new entrants. Feel free to explain your clue. if you think it will help, or to ask another entrant to parse their clue.

Clues should be posted before noon (UK time) on Sunday, August 15th, when voting opens. Voting closes at 8 p.m. (UK time) the same day.
The winner of this week's competition will be the host for the following weekend. He or she may vary the rules or the voting system.

This weekend's challenge is:

CRICKET (7) or
CRICKETER (9)

Weekend rules: Each entrant has six votes to allocate across any of one to six clues (no fractional votes allowed). For example, the allocation might be 3/2/1 for the top 3 clues, and many other allocations are possible. In the event of a tie, the number of first place votes will be taken into consideration (if those are equal, 2nd place votes, etc).

Have fun and good luck!

Insect game? (7)

Of interest to a lobbyist? (8)

Trick E.C. played? (7)

It's played by one of the orchestra? (7)

To Americans, it's bats (7)

Insect DNA studied by Alien (7)

Chirping about a game I don’t understand. (7)

Was working on this before I saw Paul’s. Also, I do have some idea how the game is played, but it’s a bit sketchy.

A pain in the neck around halfway through test in this sport. (6)

See. I do know something about cricket. Test - test match. Ha!

Apparently now that I’m retired I can’t count though. Should be (7)