Possible Clues:

• Performance cancelled due to lack of a final decision last time
• Dismiss a number in the deciding game
• No possibility of drama? There might be in this decisive game
• Game to decide a tie
• Quietly hedge a bet on decisive match
• Work in theatre before away match
• Tie end of burlap sack
• Set one person against another
• Extra match when Macbeth cancelled?
• Set against trifle having turned sour