Ashmead Nedd joins Leeward Islands Hurricanes franchise

Professional Players Draft 2020-2021…

Via Zoom meeting yesterday, Cricket West Indies (CWI) hosted its 2020-2021 West Indies Professional Players Draft for the Colonial Medical Insurance Super50 Cup and the West Indies Championship.
To ensure the process was carried out efficiently and smoothly, the Draft was monitored by CWI’s auditors, KPMG.
Representatives of each franchise made two picks to bring their contracted squad of players to 15. The results of the process are listed below

ROUND 1
Leewards Hurricanes
– Ashmead Nedd

Windward Volcanoes
– Kevin Stoute

Jamaica Scorpions
– Odean Smith

Guyana Jaguars
– Ramaal Lewis

TT Red Force
– Bryan Charles

Barbados Pride – Kyle Hope
ROUND 2
Leewards Hurricanes – Tyrone Williams Jr.

Windwards Volcanoes – Larry Edwards

Jamaica Scorpions – Alwyn Williams

Guyana Jaguars – Tevin Imlach

TT Red Force
– Isaiah Rajah

Barbados Pride
– Shamar Springer
In a significant move in the draft, Ashmead Nedd joined the Leeward Islands Hurricanes as that franchise’s first-round pick. This left-arm spinner who hails from Guyana was one of the West Indies’ leading performers at the ICC Under-19 World Cup in South Africa earlier this year.
His presence in that franchise would help to bolster its bowling stocks, as he would bring experience gained from representing the West Indies Emerging Players – winners of the Colonial Medical Insurance Super50 Cup last November.
Joining Nedd as players contracted to franchises are his West Indies Under-19 captain Kimani Melius, who was picked up by the Windward Islands Volcanoes, and fast bowler Jayden Seales, who was contracted by the Trinidad and Tobago Red Force.
Both Melius and Seales were acquired ahead of the draft as pre-selected players by the respective franchises.
Additionally, two experienced players have found new franchises. Kyle Hope, who played five Test matches and seven One-Day Internationals in 2017, has moved from Trinidad & Tobago Red Force to Barbados Pride.
Kevin Stoute, a former Barbados Pride captain, who has played 76 first-class matches since his debut back in 2007, will now play for the Windward Islands Volcanoes.
CWI’s Director of Cricket, Jimmy Adams, said: “I am pleased to have gotten the regional franchise draft completed. Franchises can now focus on implementing post-lockdown training to gradually build towards their full programmes. Obviously, we are all hopeful that we will soon be given the all-clear by the respective Governments to resume full franchise operations.”