Includes cricket start and bowling sessions (6)
I believe the answer is:
covers
'includes' is the definition.
(covering is a kind of including)
'cricket start and bowling sessions' is the wordplay.
'start' suggests taking the first letters.
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'bowling' becomes 'over' (cricket term).
'sessions' becomes 's' (this could be a standard abbreviation which I don't know about).
The initial letter of 'cricket' is 'c'.
'c'+'over'+'s'='COVERS'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for covers that I've seen before include "Forms a layer over" , "Bedclothes" .)