{"id":786770,"date":"2026-09-29T21:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T21:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/786770\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T21:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T21:40:15","slug":"ross-whiteley-derbyshire-falcons-batter-signs-new-one-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/786770\/","title":{"rendered":"Ross Whiteley: Derbyshire Falcons batter signs new one-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Batter Ross Whiteley will remain with the Derbyshire Falcons next season after signing a new one-year deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The big hitting 38-year-old is in his second spell with the club, having returned to the County Ground, after more than a decade away, in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Whiteley, who helped Worcestershire and Hampshire to T20 Blast titles in the time he had away from Derbyshire, made 20 appearances for the Falcons across both One-Day Cup and T20 Blast competitions in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He scored 169 runs and boasted a strike rate of nearly 112 in the 50-over game, while he managed 288 T20 runs at a rate of almost 163.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Derbyshire failed to get beyond the group stage of either white-ball competition last term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Batter Ross Whiteley will remain with the Derbyshire Falcons next season after signing a new one-year deal. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-786770","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\/786770","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=786770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}