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English cricket team left watering-hole, ultimately getting banishment (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

exile

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'banishment' is the definition.
(exile is a kind of banishment)

'english cricket team left watering-hole ultimately' is the wordplay.
'english' becomes 'E' (abbreviation).
'cricket team' becomes 'XI' (a cricket team, from Roman numerals for ll).
'left watering' becomes 'l' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'ultimately' says to take the final letters.
The final letter of 'hole' is 'e'.
'e'+'xi'+'l'+'e'='EXILE'

'getting' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for exile that I've seen before include "Send to live abroad" , "Person forced to live abroad" , "Refugee" , "Ousted person" , "Drive away" .)

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