Whitcliff Nathaniel Atkinson (born 17 September 1972) is a Bahamian

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er. Atkinson is a right-handed

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who bowls left-arm

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and played primarily as a

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. Atkinson represented the

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. Atkinson made his debut for the Bahamas in the

2002 ICC Americas Championship The 2002 ICC Americas Championship was a cricket tournament in Argentina, taking place between 12 March and 16 March 2002. It gave six North and South American Associate and Affiliate members of the International Cricket Council experience of in ...

against the

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. Atkinson made his

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debut for the Bahamas against the

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in the 1st round of the 2006 Stanford 20/20. He played his second and final Twenty20 match for the Bahamas in the 1st round of the 2008 Stanford 20/20 against

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; in both matches he was dismissed for

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. Atkinson represented the Bahamas in the

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and represented the Bahamas in the 2010 ICC Americas Championship Division 1. In July 2019, he was named in the Bahamian squad for their tour of Bermuda.

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