Ross Andrew Whiteley (born 13 September 1988) is an English

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er who currently plays for

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Biography

Whiteley was born in

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. He is a left-handed batsman. He played with the

Second XI from the 2006 season, in the Second XI Championship and Trophy. His brother Adam, two years his senior, also played for Derbyshire's Second XI between 2003 and 2007. In the 2008 season, Whiteley made his List A debut in September in a

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game against

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, followed shortly afterwards by his First-class debut against

Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It is bordered by Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire to the north, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire to the south-east, Warw ...

in the

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. He also played three Pro40 matches in the 2009 season. In the 2012 season Whiteley hit the winning runs that promoted Derbyshire as Division 2 winners into Division 1. On 25 July 2013, Whiteley signed for the remaining 2013 season and a further three years with

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, making his debut on 26 July 2013. Whiteley then produced a powerful innings in a

2015 T20 Blast The 2015 NatWest T20 Blast was the thirteenth edition of the T20 Blast, the English and Welsh Twenty20 cricket competition. The competition ran from 15 May 2015 to Finals Day at Edgbaston Cricket Ground, Edgbaston on 29 August. The competition wa ...

game versus

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, his innings of 91* off 36 balls included 11 sixes. On 13 August 2015 Whiteley signed a new four-year contract with Worcestershire, ensuring his future with them him to the summer of 2019. On 23 July 2017, Whiteley hit six sixes in the same over during Worcestershire's match against Yorkshire in the

2017 NatWest t20 Blast The 2017 NatWest T20 Blast was the fifteenth edition of the T20 Blast, a professional domestic T20 competition league in England and Wales run by the ECB. The league consisted of the 18 first-class county teams divided into two divisions of nine ...

. On 15 September 2018, Ross was a part of the Worcestershire Rapids side that made their first appearance at finals day which ended in victory. The Rapids beat Lancashire Lightning in the semi-final as well as beating Sussex Sharks by 4 wickets to secure their maiden T20 Blast Trophy. On 20 September 2021, Whiteley signed for

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on a three-year white-ball contract, after impressing for the

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in the ECB's inaugural

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tournament. In April 2022, he was bought by the

for the 2022 season of The Hundred. Whiteley rejoined his first club, Derbyshire, on a two-year contract in November 2023.

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