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Club
batting,
accepting
run
out
(4)
Club batting, accepting run out (4)
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The definition is at the beginning of the clue.
How the clue works
Club is your definition here, as in a golf iron. Think of "batting" in cricket terms — that gives you IN, for being in to bat, and this then accepts (takes inside itself) RO, the abbreviation for "run out", slotted into the middle to build I-RO-N.