| FOLLOWON | Immediate second innings in cricket (6-2) |
| POSTMANSKNOCK | Upright fellow with second innings in game (8,5) |
| KNOCK | Informal word for an innings in cricket; a rap on a door; or, a noise in an engine caused by detonation (5) |
| ORDER | The batting ..... , sequence in which batsmen play through their team's innings in cricket (5) |
| OPENERS | The first couple of batting players who begin a team's innings in cricket (7) |
| TANVIR | Leading wicket taker in the Royals' 2008 title run. He took 6-14 in an innings in 2008, a record for best innings bowling in the IPL which stood until 2019. |
| RASHID | 4 overs, 1 maiden, 7 runs, 6 wickets. Whose figures (in the second innings of debut match)? (6) |
| STUBBS | Who top-scored for South Africa in their second innings of the first Test versus Sri Lanka in Durban? (6) |
| VIHARI | One of India's second-innings heroes in Sydney. (6) |
| EVERTONWEEKES | West Indian batsman who in 1948/9 completed five centuries in successive innings in Tests (7,6) |
| DRAVID | He scored 270 in an innings in Rawalpindi, where India clinched its first series win in Pakistan (6) |
| DOMINICCORK | All-rounder took the best figures for an England bowler on Test debut, with 7 for 43 in the second innings against the West Indies in 1995 |
| WAQARYOUNIS | Pakistan cricketer who took 3-85 against England in the 2nd innings of the 2nd Test in 2001 (5,6) |
| IMRAN | Pakistan opener who made 131 in the 2nd innings of the 2nd Test against West Indies in Bridgetown in 2000 (5) |
| NAZIR | Pakistan opener who made 131 in the 2nd innings of the 2nd Test against West Indies in Bridgetown in 2000 (5) |
| INSTANT | Immediate - second (7) |
| TURNER | Australian cricketer who recorded three consecutive firstball ducks in his first three innings in 2019 Indian Premier League (6) |
| OPENER | Either of the two batting players who begin an innings in a game of cricket (6) |
| ROOT | Who scored a century in each innings in the Lord's Test in the last week of August 2024? (4) |
| JOE | Who scored a century in each innings in the Lord's Test in the last week of August 2024? (3) |
