Related Clues:

• One's first to take deliveries -- and usually runs
• Game one of any series
• Act of setting something on fire
• Key batsman
• First of a series of games is key
• Letter tool
• Expect to use this on 17 across in the early stages
• Starting of combustion
• 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