Jumbo 1016 Cryptic

[mightymouse]

Last two:
25a Indian lower-order batsmen mistaken for openers coming in T-M-L suspect it is Tamil.......why?
43d Speaker read extremely clearly at first, and repeated half R-C-T-R reciter?

TIA 1016 has been a real challenge!

[maurice]

It is RECITER: initials of "read extremely clearly + "iter"=half of iterated (repeated)

[Johnh42]

ReadExtremely Clearlt first letters then halo iterated gives reciter

[sedge47]

25a First letter of M(istaken) inside TAIL (lower-order batsmen)

[shoota]

Tail (end batsman) + M(istaken)

[maurice]

.............and Tamil,too: m from mistaken inside tail = less good batsmen in a team

[Oldred]

tail (lower order batsmen) including m (first letter of mistaken)

[mightymouse]

Thanks to you all!