Whatman's first-class experience came from representative team tours to New Zealand and the
West Indies, in which he played twenty-six games, score 394 runs at a
batting average of 14.07, taking 21 catches and executing nine stumpings. He had a prominent involvement in a dispute involving
Bernard Bosanquet and a disagreement over an umpiring decision during a match against
Canterbury during
Lord Hawke's 1902-03 tour of New Zealand. ==Family==