Related Clues:

• Qualifying race at the Olympics, for short
• Key batsman, first to face the bowling
• Heat at a race
• Bottle drinker’s need
• Game one of a series
• First batsman in door, perhaps?
• First goal in a game
• Oscar, member of Upper House, welcomes new cricketer
• Gadget used on a can
• First batsman; utensil
• Old writer on about Sir Len Hutton?
• Preface of a printed book
• Key: one of two in first
• One relieved by a reliever
• Early bout