Adam Jack Aubrey Wheater (born 13 February 1990) is an English former

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...

er who played for

Essex County Cricket Club Essex County Cricket Club is one of eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Essex. Founded in 1876, the club had minor county status until 1894 when ...

. He was a right-handed batsman who played as a

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Career

Wheater was born at

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in 1990 and educated at

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and at Anglia Ruskin University.Adam Wheater
CricketArchive. Retrieved 11 April 2023. He made two appearances in the non-first-class Pro ARCH Trophy in March 2008 against the

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, and made his first-class debut for Essex against Cambridge UCCE the following month. Wheater spent the first few seasons of his professional career at Essex as understudy to James Foster. Wheater spent the winter of 2010/11 playing for Zimbabwean franchise

Matabeleland Tuskers The Matabeleland Tuskers is one of five Zimbabwean cricket franchises. They are a first-class cricket team, based in the Bulawayo Metropolitan and Matabeleland North area. They play their home matches at Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo. They were ...

. He made his maiden first-class century for the Tuskers during his spell. On his return, he was picked as a specialist batsman twice in

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games for Essex with Foster in the same team. Wheater fielded at slip or point while Foster, being the senior and superior gloveman, kept wicket. Frustrated with his lack of wicket-keeping opportunities at Essex, he bought himself out of his contract and moved to Hampshire. There he had a new battle for the gloves, as Michael Bates was a highly rated keeper. Wheater once again found himself sometimes playing as a specialist batsman. After a spell as first-choice wicket-keeper he once again found himself in a battle, this time with

Lewis McManus Lewis David McManus (born 9 October 1994) is an English first-class cricketer. He is a right-handed wicket-keeper batsmen. McManus is a promising wicketkeeper-batsman from Bournemouth who has come through Hampshire's academy. He was part of th ...

. He then returned to Essex, even though James Foster was still there. He was only sure of his position as first-choice keeper once Foster retired at the end of the 2018 season. In May 2022,

announced that Wheater would retire after the 2022 season.

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*. {{DEFAULTSORT:Wheater, Adam 1990 births Living people English cricketers Essex cricketers Matabeleland cricketers Badureliya Sports Club cricketers Northern Districts cricketers Hampshire cricketers Cambridge MCCU cricketers Wicket-keepers Sportspeople from Leytonstone Cricketers from the London Borough of Waltham Forest