Canadian cricket has been rocked by allegations of threats, selection pressure and more. match-fixing,and Lawrence Bishnoi The gang is at the center of the CBC investigation.Dilpreet BajwaThe player who led Canada in the recent ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka has come under scrutiny due to a match-fixing case involving Canada’s match against New Zealand during the tournament.Push boundaries with our YouTube channel. Subscribe now!A report by Canadian public broadcaster CBC said Bajwa may have links to jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi’s network and may have been influenced to organize match-fixing for Bishnoi.The CBC report also suggested that the Bishnoi gang may have played a role in Bajwa’s rise in Canadian cricket. Same gang accused of killing singer sidumushwarapolitician Baba Siddiq’s murder and threats against Bollywood actors Salman Khan.restaurant threats“Last July (2025), about 25 Cricketers who had just won a major provincial tournament gathered at a restaurant in Surrey, B.C. Two players from the match walked from the outside patio to a table inside where a star of the Canadian men’s national team was having dinner with another group of people who, according to sources, claimed to represent the Bishnoi gang, a violent criminal organization designated as a terrorist organization in Canada. They told the star that if he did not support the rise, a man named Dilpreet Bajwa The young player and his family will face consequences for his relationship with another player on the men’s provincial and national teams,” the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reported.The threatened national team player then recounted the incident at the restaurant to a CBC man named Noah. Noah, like the national team players, has also received death threats.The then 22-year-old Bajwa was appointed captain three weeks before the start of the T20 World Cup in February this year. The alleged fixing involved New Zealand’s fifth-round match against Canada in the T20 World Cup when skipper Dilpreet Bajwa came on to bowl.He is primarily a batting all-rounder who can bowl spin. He took the field with New Zealand with figures of 2 for 35. He started without the ball, bowled a deflected ball down the leg side and conceded 15 runs in the over.Restaurant threat part of wider trendThe CBC report said the threats at the restaurant were part of a pattern of intimidation in Canadian cricket involving people claiming links to Lawrence Bishnoi’s gang. The reports said the organizations appeared to be trying to place cricket administrators and players in specific positions.The cases of intimidation are being reported in British Columbia and are linked to Arvinder Khosa, the president of the British Columbia Cricket Association and the recently elected president of Cricket Canada, according to sources cited by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).The report states that multiple sources believe the threats are related to Khosa because of his ties to the players involved in the incident (he threatened national team players in a restaurant). Khosa said he didn’t know the full details of what happened at the restaurant, but later had phone conversations with then-Cricket Canada president Amjad Bajwa and the players involved. When questioned by CBC, Amjad Bajwa, who is not related to Dilpreet Bajwa, denied knowledge of the threats.Those who were allegedly threatened said the intimidation was aimed at securing Bajwa’s status as captain of the Canadian national team.Xhosa’s influence continues to growThe CBC report says that while Khosa may have only recently become president of Cricket Canada, his influence appears to have been influential in key decisions, including Dilpreet Bajwa’s promotion to captain.Soon after the restaurant incident, it was reported that Khosa overruled the selectors and board’s decision to appoint Bajwa as captain of the provincial team, even though the selectors had already chosen another player.“I objected, but within 30 or 40 minutes I got another message from the same number, which scared me because it was a photo,” Noah was quoted as saying in the CBC report.CBC also quoted a source close to Cricket Canada as saying that Khosa, who is now president of Cricket Canada, was part of a group that put Bajwa’s name forward for the national team and that he told Bajwa that he owed Khosa a place in the team.“I personally feel like they want to fix the game, make money from it. That’s why they know they can use him,” Noah said, referring to those who say they are from the Bishnoi gang.“What other reason could there be for him to be captain of Team Canada?”A phone recording of alleged live manipulation emergesThe report also refers to a recording of a phone call last May in which former Canada coach Khurram Chohan was allegedly asked by then Cricket Canada president Amjad Bajwa, chief executive Salman Khan and board member Rana Imran to change parts of the game.Chauhan claimed he was given specific teams and batting order to follow ahead of the 2025 match against Bermuda but he failed to follow the instructions. He said he later received a call from Salman angrily asking him: “What did you do?”Chouhan was ousted from his post in July, about a month after the recordings emerged.
