Dear Editor,
In your correspondent Roger Persaud’s welcome coverage of the launching of the book Cricket At Bourda (Stabroek News March 30) there is a correction that should be made.
The caption to the picture of myself and Paul Chan-A-Sue signing copies of the book describes us as co-writing Cricket At Bourda. In fact what we did was jointly compile the book. Stephen Camacho wrote a fascinating brief history of the GCC for the book and Professor Winston McGowan, Guy-ana’s great cricket historian and scholar, contributed many of the articles. They deserve great credit, as do many others such as the Hand-in-Hand Group which sponsored the book, the President of the GCC who cooperated whole-heartedly in the project, Ron Legall who supplied the Test scorecards, Vic Insanally and Andrew Chase of Guyenter-prise, Lawrence Fanfair and also the people at Sheik Hassan’s Printery who worked indefatigably to get the book out in time.
Paul and I facilitated and compiled Cricket at Bourda but the book is very much the work of many willing and able hands. Many thanks to them.
By the way I note with pleasure that cricket at Providence has made a brave start to its own tradition by featuring a World Cup world record helmet trick in its very first day of play!
Yours faithfully,
Ian McDonald
