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Rishi Persad

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Rishi Persad

Presenter


Last updated January 2007
Category: Sport
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Rishi is a presenter and reporter for BBC Sport working primarily on cricket and horse racing.

 

Rishi grew up in Trinidad, just a 10-minute walk from the Queen’s Park Oval in Port-of-Spain. Rishi played a lot of cricket at school, both in Trinidad and in the UK, where he came to live aged 12 in 1986.

 

Prior to joining the BBC, Rishi was at Channel Four, where he was part of their Royal Television Society award-winning team at the Cheltenham Festival. He joined the BBC in April 2003, and has worked on the London Marathon, Wimbledon, the Open Golf Championship and coverage of Bowls.

 

He also worked on the Athens Olympics, where he presented Olympic Grandstand alongside Sue Barker and Clare Balding.

 


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