Maiden maybe beset by compassion, not one in need (7)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

OVER(in cricket, an example of which/maybe is a maiden, when no runs are scored during the over) contained in ( beset by ) “pity”(compassion/condolence) minus ( not … in ) “I”(Roman numeral for “one”).