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Cricket Canada has termed the International Cricket Council's (ICC) determination to suspend its membership arsenic "unexpected" and said it has initiated broad corrective measures to code the governance and fiscal deficiencies flagged by the sport's planetary governing body.
The ICC, astatine its Board gathering successful Ahmedabad connected Sunday (May 31, 2026), suspended Cricket Canada with contiguous effect for what it described arsenic "serious breaches" of rank obligations. However, the satellite assemblage clarified that Canadian nationalist teams would proceed to stay eligible for ICC events to safeguard the interests of players.
Responding to the decision, Cricket Canada said it respected the ICC's ruling and remained committed to fulfilling each compliance requirements.
"The suspension was unexpected. Nevertheless, Cricket Canada respects the ICC's determination and is afloat committed to gathering each compliance requirements. The Board has directed the Committee to accelerate its investigative and betterment mandate to guarantee that governance, fiscal oversight, and reporting systems are strengthened without delay," Cricket Canada said successful a connection to 'Sportsnet'. The governing assemblage added that it has begun implementing remedial measures aft receiving connection from the ICC.
"Since receiving ICC's notice, Cricket Canada has undertaken immediate, comprehensive, and structured corrective measures to remedy the governance, fiscal oversight, and administrative deficiencies identified successful the ICC's correspondence," it said successful the connection to the starring Canadian sports quality organisation.
Cricket Canada besides said it takes the concerns raised by the ICC earnestly and remains focused connected improving governance standards portion supporting the maturation of the athletics successful the country.
The suspension comes amid an ongoing ICC probe into allegations of corruption involving Cricket Canada, which were highlighted successful the CBC documentary 'Corruption, Crime and Cricket' earlier this year.
Cricket Canada maintained that it operates wrong the ICC's anti-corruption model and remains compliant with applicable requirements of the apex body, portion asserting that immoderate findings would beryllium based connected verified facts and owed process. Canada is an subordinate associate and participated successful the T20 World Cup held successful India earlier this year.
On Monday (June 1, 2026), portion arriving astatine the determination to suspend the subordinate nation, the ICC said successful a statement, "In taking this decision, the ICC Board was mindful of the value of protecting the interests of Canadian players and ensuring they are not disadvantaged by the governance issues affecting the nationalist governing body.
"Accordingly, Canadian nationalist typical teams volition proceed to beryllium eligible to enactment successful ICC events during the play of suspension." The ICC volition besides supply Cricket Canada with a acceptable of reinstatement conditions aimed astatine addressing the governance and administrative issues identified by the Board.
The advancement against these conditions volition beryllium monitored by the ICC Normalisation Committee with reinstatement of rank taxable to the Board being satisfied that the conditions person been afloat met.
