Related Clues:
- One's first to take deliveries -- and usually runs
- Game one of any series
- Key batsman
- First of a series of games is key
- Letter tool
- Expect to use this on 17 across in the early stages
- First in batting order
- One's batting bottle is undone by this
- Specialist with bat or jemmy, perhaps?
- Word with "letter" or "can"
- Part of a concert that many people impatiently sit through
- First man in is key?
- Swiss army knife tool
- Key sporting event about to return
- Man is put into part -- player on stage?