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CWI Professional Players draft Guyana Jaguars select Imlach, Lewis; Nedd joins LI Hurricanes
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By Zaheer Mohamed
Five-time champions Guyana Jaguars have selected wicket-keeper batsman Tevin Imlach and Jamaican Ramaal Lewis in their 15-member squad following the Cricket West Indies (CWI) professional players draft for the Colonial Medical Insurance Super50 Cup and the West Indies Four-Day Championship which was held yesterday via a Zoom meeting.
Tevin Imlach turns one through the on-side.
Imlach who plays for Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) and was part of the West Indies U19 team that won the U19 World Cup in 2016 has been rewarded for his consistent performances over the years, while Lewis has been plying his trade in Guyana for a number of years.
Guyanese Ashmead Nedd, also of DCC, was selected by the Leeward Islands Hurricanes as their first-round pick in what was seen as a vital move in the draft. Nedd has shown lots of promise early in his career, winning regional U15 and U19 titles with the Guyana team. He was one of the leading performers for the West Indies at the ICC Under-19 World Cup in South Africa earlier this year.
A member of the West Indies Emerging Players squad that won the Colonial Medical Insurance Super50 Cup last November, Nedd will add strength to the Hurricanes bowling attack.
West Indies Under-19 captain Kimani Melius was picked by the Windward Islands Volcanoes while former Barbados Pride Captain Kevin Stoute, with 76 first class matches under his belt will join Melius at the Windward Islands Volcanoes.
Akshaya Persaud, Ashmead Nedd (CWI)
Fast bowler Jayden Seales 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.
Kyle Hope, who played five Test matches and seven One-Day Internationals in 2017, has moved to Barbados Pride.
The list of players selected is;
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; Guyana Jaguars – Tevin Imlach; Jamaica Scorpions – Alwyn Williams; TT Red Force – Isaiah Rajah; Barbados Pride – Shamar Springer.
In a CWI media release, 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 programs. Obviously we are all hopeful that we will soon be given the all-clear by the respective Governments to resume full franchise operations.”
The draft was conducted over two rounds where each franchise was asked to pick a player in each round. Based on CWI’s draft structure, each franchise will contract a minimum of 15 players, 13 pre-selected and the two from the player pool during the live draft.
For the 2020-21 season, each franchise was allocated a pick number according to their final league position and performance of the franchise in the 2019-20 West Indies Championship.
The CWI Board of Directors has agreed that the requirement to contract at least two players from outside of the Franchise territory will not apply to the 2020/21 season. In keeping with a wide range of short-term recommendations from the CWI Financial Strategy Advisory Committee that were approved by the Board of Directors at the end of May, all contracts will be awarded for a six-month term, at a 50% reduced value.
Among those that were retained by the Guyana Franchise as protected players are; Veerasammy Permaul, Chandrapaul Hemraj, Keon Joseph and Nial Smith.
The event was monitored by CWI’s auditors KPMG to ensure that the process was carried out efficiently and smoothly.
Below are the full squads of each franchise:
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