Batter Ross Whiteley has taken up an choice in his contract to stick with Derbyshire for the 2026 county season.
Whiteley made 18 white-ball appearances for the county this summer time, a adequate quantity to permit him to set off the extension.
The 37-year-old additionally performed for Trent Rockets within the males’s last of The Hundred, scoring 14 at Lord’s as they misplaced to Oval Invincibles.
“Ross is likely one of the most skilled white-ball cricketers within the county sport – with the course we need to take our group in, that have can be important in guiding our younger gamers,” head of cricket Mickey Arthur told the club website., external
“Ross nonetheless has the flexibility to rise to the event and take a sport away from the opposition. We have seen it a number of occasions in native derbies over the past two seasons and we look ahead to extra particular performances in 2026.”
Whiteley is in his second spell with the membership, having beforehand been a member of the group which gained promotion from County Championship Division Two in 2012.
“My seek for silverware with the Falcons continues,” he stated. “I firmly imagine we’ve got a really gifted squad, which has proven actual promise in white-ball cricket over the past two years regardless of outcomes not at all times going our approach.”
