[1] He made his first-class cricket debut for the Leeward Islands during the 1995–96 Busta Cup, and played a total of four times in his first season, including in his team's defeat of Trinidad and Tobago in the competition final.
[2] Cannonier was awarded a scholarship to the University of the West Indies in 1996,[1] and consequently did not again appear for the Leeward Islands until the 1999–00 Red Stripe Bowl (a limited-overs competition).
[3] Cannonier's final high-level cricket matches came at the Stanford 20/20 competition in 2006 and 2008, where he represented the Saint Kitts national team.
[4] He never made the Saint Kitts national football team, but did captain his club side, Basseterre's Newtown United.
[1] After graduating from the University of the West Indies, Cannonier worked for a period as an economist and statistician with the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank.