Former international cricketers among invitees to commentators’ workshop

At the request of His Excellency President Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali, Legendary cricket broadcaster Joseph ‘Reds’ Perreira will conduct a workshop for cricket commentators from November 16 to 18 at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC).
The 3-day event will seek to cover the fundamentals of cricket commentary under the theme ‘taking it to another level.’ Among the areas to be covered are preparation, voice training, audience attentiveness, and the significance of match officials. Reon King, former Test player, now international Match Referee, Regional Umpire Shannon Crawford and international scorer Trevor Hussain are scheduled to make presentations on the opening day.
For the workshop, Perreira has secured discussion papers and notes from a number of cricket personalities in the Region, including former West Indies cricketers Richard ‘Prof’ Edwards and Michael Findlay, along with contributions from Barbadian-born England batsman Roland Butcher, former Windward Islands and Combined Islands player Lockhart Sebastian, former Jamaica cricket administrator Pat Terrelonge, former Cricket West Indies Chief Executive Officer Bruce Aanensen, commentators Alexis Jordan, Colin Murray and Sunil Ramdeen, and journalists Guyanese Tony McWatt, Trinidadian Nasser Khan.
‘Reds’ has also acquired a written discussion that was put out by the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (Barbados) with inputs from the late Tony Cozier and journalist Adriel ‘Woody’ Richards. Additionally, contribution is expected from respected Caribbean journalist Lance Whittaker.
Perreira, a Guyanese who have called over 150 Test matches around the world in a career that spanned over five decades, would also use footage of matches to steer the knowledge sharing workshop. Invitees are Clyde Butts, Leon Johnson, Christopher Barnwell, Devendra Bishoo, Inderjeet Persaud, Neil Barry, John Ramsingh, Matthew Kissoon, Naim Chan, Steven Jacobs, Edwin Seeraj, Sean Devers, Jonathan Foo, Avenash Ramzan, Brandon Corlette, Shemroy Barrington, Jermaine Neblette, Lennox Cush, Brandon Bess, Akeem Greene and Andy Ramnarine.
Local media houses are invited to the opening session, and may wish to utilise the services of the trainees thereafter. In fact, it is the hope of the facilitator, Perreira, that radio stations add cricket coverage to their programming in 2024 and beyond.
‘Reds’ said, “It is important that after such a workshop, more opportunities are given for cricket reports from all three counties.”
The last cricket commentators’ workshop was conducted by ‘Reds’ for the Guyana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) in 1997.