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Hoodlum grabs cricket trophy and behaves aggressively (6,3)

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I believe the answer is:

lashes out

'behaves aggressively' is the definition.
(to lash out is to become violent)

'hoodlum grabs cricket trophy' is the wordplay.
'hoodlum' becomes 'lout' (both can mean a violent youth).
'grabs' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'cricket trophy' becomes 'ashes' (I've seen this before).
'lout' placed around 'ashes' is 'LASHES OUT'.

'and' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for lashes out that I've seen before include "removing part of eye?" , "Hits wildly" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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