The International Cricket Council (ICC) has suspended Cricket Canada over what it called "serious breaches of membership obligations," following months of mounting concerns about corruption within the national body. Investigations by CBC's Fifth Estate unit alleged match-fixing, coercion, and the influence of the Lawrence Bishnoi gang — a transnational criminal syndicate (recently designated a terrorist entity by the Canadian government) run from a prison cell in Delhi — with players reportedly threatened with death if they refused to cooperate. Canadian teams will still be permitted to compete in sanctioned events during the suspension, while Cricket Canada undergoes an independent governance review and works to meet ICC reinstatement conditions.