IPL 2022: Nedd’s plan mapped out for RCB nets stint

Apr 17, 2022 Sports

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– Spinner recommended by Rutherford

By Sean Devers

Guyanese left-arm spinner Ashmead Romano Nedd was born January 10, 2001, to Gavin and Roxanne Nedd and grew up in Alberttown, a ward in Guyana’s Capital City.

Last Wednesday the talented 21-year old, who can also bat, travelled to India as a nets bowler for the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) camp for the remainder of the 2022 Indian Premier League (IPL) season.
Nedd’s father is a former Guyana youth and First-Class off-spinner who is arguably Guyana’s best youth Coach and also a member of the Demerara Cricket Club (DCC) which has produced West Indian greats like Clive Lloyd, Lance Gibbs and the late Roy Fredericks.
On his arrival in India Nedd told Kaieteur Sports that he was recommended to be a nets bowler and also train with RCB by his former DCC team mate and close friend, Sherfane Rutherford, who plays for that Franchise.
“I won’t say I am excited but I’m really thankful and happy that I got this opportunity to be around one of the best cricket leagues in the world and also to be practicing with world class players. Sherfane was asked for a net bowler and he gave them me,” informed Nedd, a member of the West Indies in the 2018 U-19 World Cup.
“This will benefit a lot, me heading to India with good batting and bowling conditions helping me develop different varieties when bowling. Going there as a spinner could really help me with my game. I want to ask simple stuff about their routine as professionals and how I can better my game as a youngster moving forward,” said Nedd.
The RCB includes professionals like Faf du Plessis, Virat Kholi, and Glenn Maxwell.
“I want to thank my family and my friend Sherfane for also giving this opportunity,” said Nedd who also thanked Alfred Mentore, Deputy Mayor of Georgetown and former DCC President and National youth batsman.
Many bowlers who made it to an IPL team as nets bowlers in the past had impressed and were subsequently picked up in the squad as well and Nedd hopes to join those who have done so.
With his favourite food being Roti and Curry, Nedd who made his U-19 debut at age 14, could feel at home in India.
In 2015, Nedd got his first International experience when he was picked by the Tony Hartford U-17 Academy team of Trinidad & Tobago for their tour of New Zealand.
Nedd was selected by Scouts from the Trinidad & Tobago Cricket Board and the Academy due to his showing in the Regional U-17 tournament in Tobago.
After playing in the Regional U-19 tournament and the Youth World Cup, he made his List A debut on November 9, 2019, for the West Indies Emerging Team in the 2019–20 Regional Super50 tournament.
In November 2019, he was named in the West Indies’ squad for the 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup and was the leading wicket-taker for the West Indies in the tournament, with eleven dismissals in six matches.
In June 2020, Nedd was selected by the Leeward Islands, in the players’ draft hosted by CWI ahead of the 2020–21 domestic season. In July 2020, he was named in the Guyana Amazon Warriors squad for the 2020 the CPL. He made his Twenty20 debut on 22 August 2020, for the Guyana Amazon Warriors in the 2020 CPL.
Since then, he has gone on to play seven games in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) picking up three wickets at an impressive economy rate of 5.64.
He made his List A debut in 2019 and has taken 17 wickets in 12 games at an economy rate of 3.50.
Nedd was at DCC as a toddler and literally grew up at a venue. It was there that he first developed an interest in cricket from seeing his father bowl. Eventually, it was Coach Nedd who changed young Nedd from a left-arm seamer to a spinner.
“Dad told me if I bowled spin I would get more opportunities to make teams since in Guyana not many fast bowlers were picked because of the slow pitches here that favour spinners,” Ashmead remembered.
Ashmead attended the St Gabriel’s Primary and later Tutorial High and Chase’s Academy. He is a skilled youngster who also played football at Tutorial High during a Digicel School’s Football Competition.
Nedd was also outstanding with both bat and ball in the National Secondary School’s Cricket League as he helped Chase’s Academy to the North Georgetown Zone title.
“As a parent and a Coach I am very proud of Ashmead success. I never told him to play cricket he just picked up a bat when he was very young and got hooked on the game and once I noticed his interest in wanting to play it seriously, I stepped in as both a father and a Coach,” Ashmead’s father said.
The DCC’s ‘Gavin Nedd Nursery’ programme has produced players like West Indies under-19 selectee Tevin Imlach, Keemo Paul and Rutherford.
Ashmead is moving up the cricketing ladder and should soon join his dad as a father/son pair to play First Class Cricket.

 

 

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