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Devers to miss C’bean Cup t20 after suffering seizures
Past champions Guyana begin the second phase of their 2012 Caribbean Cup t20 regional cricket campaign on Tuesday in Barbados against Canada and a notable absentee from their contingent is Guyana’s leading cricket Radio Broadcaster Sean Devers.
Devers has traveled with the team as a journalist on every overseas tour since 1997 in Grenada and was also in South Africa in 2010 when Guyana represented the West Indies in the Champions League t20 competition.
Sean Devers
However, the former Guyana off-spinner who represented both Demerara and Berbice at senior inter-county level did not make the trip to Antigua for the first half of the Caribbean Cup competition last week after suffering three seizures.
Devers who turns 42 next month has completed several medical tests and will see a Brain surgeon on Thursday after a CT Scan revealed an ‘area of concern’ in his left brain.
The Level 1 Cricket Coach who writes on cricket for several Caribbean publications including Guyana’s Kaieteur News, suffered the first seizure just before Christmas Day and the third one last week.
Doctors claim the seizures, which were followed by a short period of unconsciousness, could have been caused by a combination of severe stress and migraines which triggered the rise in Devers’ blood pressure.
Devers was struck unconscious during a cricket match for his club Malteenoes as a 16-year-old but has never had any adverse effects from that blow to his right temple before now.
Devers lauded Guyana’s Minister of Health and the CEO of the Georgetown Public Hospital for their personal intervention in his health care and thanked his mother, sister, brother, eldest son, Kaieteur News staff and everyone else, especially the local cricket administrators, who has provided support in his time of illness.
Devers was scheduled to cover the Caribbean Cup tournament for the Line & Length Regional Radio team and the Kaieteur News and said although feeling weak, his condition is improving and hopes that surgery is not required. He has not been able to work for the year.
“Many in the Caribbean and International cricket media including my boyhood friend Calvin Roberts from the Guyana Chronicle, former West Indies pacer Colin Croft and my radio mentor Reds Perreira have sent me get well wishes and advice. Wishes from members of the Guyana team and Ramnaresh Sarwan have also meant a lot,” Devers said.
Devers said he has been told by Doctors to avoid negative thoughts and is confident that he will be well enough to cover the West Indies home series against Australia from March.
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