{"id":359724,"date":"2026-01-08T22:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/359724\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T22:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:00:18","slug":"sam-whiteman-yorkshire-sign-wicketkeeper-batter-on-three-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/359724\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Whiteman: Yorkshire sign wicketkeeper-batter on three-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Yorkshire have signed wicketkeeper-batter Sam Whiteman on a three-year deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 33-year-old was part of the Western Australia side that won three successive Sheffield Shield titles between 2022 and 2024 and captained them to the latter two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was born in Doncaster before emigrating with his family aged three, so will count as a local domestic player for the White Rose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Whiteman previously had a spell in the County Championship with Northamptonshire in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m thrilled to have signed with my home county &#8211; the timing is right for me to return to the UK and once the opportunity arose for me to sign with Yorkshire, it was one that was too good for me to turn down,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/yorkshireccc.com\/news\/sam-whiteman-signs-for-yorkshire\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Whiteman told the club website., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I cannot wait to step out onto Headingley for the first time. It&#8217;s the best ground and best wicket in the English game and it&#8217;ll be a really proud moment for me to pull on the Yorkshire shirt for the first time in April.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yorkshire have signed wicketkeeper-batter Sam Whiteman on a three-year deal. The 33-year-old was part of the Western Australia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-359724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}