Dodger Whysall is first recorded on 18 June 1908 in a one-day single innings match at Trent Bridge.

[3] Whysall made his first-class debut on 18 August 1910 when he played for Nottinghamshire against Derbyshire in a County Championship match at the Miners Welfare Ground in Blackwell.

[4] At the end of the 1910 season, J. N. Pentelow, the editor of Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game, wrote that Whysall was one of eleven new first-class players who were "likely to make names for themselves in the future".

The report in Cricket says he hit ten boundaries and was "distinctly unlucky in skying the ball when only three short of his hundred".

[6] Whysall finally achieved his maiden century in the opening match of the 1914 season when Nottinghamshire played Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) at Lord's on 6–8 May.

Batting at number four in the order, Whysall joined Garnet Lee at 134/2 and they built a third wicket partnership of 175 in just 95 minutes.

[7] Whysall made 43 first-class appearances from 1910 to 1914, all for Nottinghamshire, and was becoming a more regular choice for the county team when World War I began on 4 August 1914.

[8] He scored 1,852 runs in 1924, including six centuries, at the substantial average of 46.30[8] and, for his performances that season, he was chosen as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1925.

According to Wisden, Whysall was worth his place on the strength of his batting alone but in fact his wicket-keeping was the decisive factor, although he was not a specialist in the position, so he toured as Herbert Strudwick's deputy.