The Black Caps and Otago all-rounder is keeping busy between cricket gigs with a stint on morning radio.
His quick wit and cutting comments have garnered 55,000 followers on Twitter and last week he made his radio debut.
He is filling in for regular presenter Simon Doull on the Crowd Goes Wild Breakfast show on Radio Sport.
‘‘It has been good fun,'' Neesham said.
‘‘It was a bit tough middle of last week with not a whole lot of sport going on apart from the basketball, so we were copping a little bit of heat from the listeners for having too much American sport.''
While Neesham is enjoying the role - he has even adjusted to a rude awakening at 4am - cricket is still his priority.
He has signed with Derbyshire for the T20 Blast series and leaves for the United Kingdom on May 13.
He will join Otago team-mates Hamish Rutherford and Neil Broom at the county and hopes to make an impact.
The right-arm bowler and left-handed batsman had a frustrating summer. He came back too early from a back complaint and re-aggravated the injury during the first test against Australia in Brisbane.
When he returned to play for Otago it was under strict instructions to manage his workload at the bowling crease. By the season's end he was back bowling quite sharply and looking more like the Neesham of old.
‘‘I certainly started to feel a lot better towards the end of the season and started clicking a wee bit better,'' he said.
‘‘Hopefully, when I head over to Derbyshire in a month's time, it will be continuing on from there.''
Neesham sat down with Black Caps coach Mike Hesson for an informal review recently. The pair had lunch and ‘‘a pretty wide-ranging discussion''.
‘‘We sort of did a bit of a review of what happened leading up to the Australian test series and basically concluded that I probably tried to push it a little bit too hard to reach a deadline.
‘‘It was discussed that we are probably not going to do that this time. I'll just rehab as best as I can and if things go quickly, then they go quickly. If they don't, then we are not going to set a deadline or anything.''
Neesham's focus is on getting fully fit and getting his bowling loads back up.
‘‘I'm sure I've got plenty left in the tank as far as being an all-rounder goes,'' he responded when asked if he had considered giving up bowling to focus on batting.
