Bowl a no-ball as clear record broken by Stokes (8)

Independent Cryptic #11862 | 8 Down | 2024-10-16
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

OVERT (clear = deliberate and in plain sight) + EP (abbreviation for extended-play record), containing (broken by) S (abbreviation for stokes, a scientific unit of viscosity). In cricket, the umpire calls a no-ball when the bowler oversteps a line before releasing the ball.

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