The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word SCORER
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More clues leading to the result SCORER
- Person who may register twenty runs?
- Twenty runs is notable for me!
- Twenty runs — I'll record that
- Batsman, maybe, feeling more pain, having secured century
- One keeps a tally, increasingly irritated when about 100
- He writes in bars, twenty four ultimately
- Summer of cricket‘s more painful without century
- He scrapes 20 runs
- Twenty by end of over – I record that
- Successful footballer who’s made an impression?
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The straight part
We know that "He beats the goalie" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case he beats the goalie = scorer.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does SCORER mean?
SCORER noun- One who scores.
- One who keeps track of scores in a game; a scorekeeper.
- Either of a pair of people, one provided by each side, who record in a specially formatted book, every ball bowled, every run scored, and every wicket that falls