He's featured as a left arm orthodox spinner for both Guyana and the West Indies cricket team.
[2] He made his first-class cricket debut for Guyana in the Regional Four Day Competition in 2006/07.
[2] After being released at the end of the 2016 Caribbean Premier League season, he was reselected by the Guyana Amazon Warriors for the 2017 edition; he was picked in the 9th round of the draft.
[4] In December 2017, he took his 25th five-wicket haul in first-class cricket, bowling for Guyana against the Leeward Islands in the 2017–18 Regional Four Day Competition.
[10] In February 2020, in the 2019–20 West Indies Championship fixture against Jamaica, Permaul took 15 wickets for 77 runs in the match.