Possible Clues:

• West Indian batsman steals silver? I'd go for plum
• Fruit garden's odd parts fascinate
• Author eating funny fruit
• Eco-friendly judge, we hear, finding variety of plum
• Good to get involved again — it bears fruit
• Plum-like fruit
• Plum variety
• Fruit and raw egg, a disaster
• Novelist suppressing joke -- it's fruity
• Greenish-yellow type of plum