Canadian cricket has been rocked by threats, selection pressure and allegations. Match fixingwith the Lawrence Bishnoi Gang at center of CBC investigationDilpreet Bajwawho recently led the Canadian team in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup held in India and Sri Lanka, is under scrutiny following a match-fixing case involving him in the Canada vs New Zealand match during the tournament.Go beyond limits with our YouTube channel. Subscribe now!A report by Canada’s public broadcaster Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) said Bajwa may have links with jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi’s network and may have been influenced by the Bishnoi group to fix matches.The CBC report also stated that the Bishnoi gang played a role in Bajwa’s rise in Canadian cricket. The same gang is accused of murdering the singer. Sidhu Moose Walathe assassination of politician Baba Siddique, and threats to Bollywood actors Salman Khan.Restaurant threat“Last July (2025), about 25 cricketers, after winning a major provincial tournament, gathered at a restaurant in Surrey, British Columbia. Two players from the tournament walked from the patio outside to a table inside, where a Canadian men’s national team star was having dinner with another group. The criminal group, designated a terrorist organization in Canada, told the Star that if he killed a young national player named Dalpreet Bajwa and the men’s provincial team and team If I don’t support the addition of another player, he and his family will face the consequences.The national player who was threatened spoke to a man named Noah by the CBC about the incident at the restaurant. Like the national player, Noah also received death threats.Bajwa, then 22, was appointed captain three weeks before the start of the T20 World Cup in February this year. The alleged fixing incident was in the fifth over of New Zealand’s chase against Canada in the T20 World Cup, when captain Dilpreet Bajwa came in to bowl.He is primarily a batting all-rounder who bowls off-spin. He came to bowl with New Zealand at 35 runs for 2 wickets. He started with a no ball, bowled wide down the leg side, and gave away 15 runs in that over.The restaurant threat is part of a broader trendThe CBC report said threats such as the one at the restaurant are typical of threats within Canadian cricket, including those who claim to be affiliated with the Lawrence Bishnoi gang. He says such groups appear to be trying to keep cricket administrators and players in certain positions.According to CBC sources, the threats are being reported in British Columbia and are linked to Cricket BC chief and recently elected Cricket Canada president Arvinder Khosa.The report said that several sources believed that the threats were related to Khosa because of his association with the players involved in the incident (who threatened the national player in a restaurant). Khosa said he did not know the full details of what happened at the restaurant but later met with the players involved, along with then Cricket Canada president Amjad Bajwa. Amjad Bajwa, who is no relation to Dilpreet Bajwa, denied knowledge of the threats when asked by the CBC.Those who were allegedly threatened said the threats were aimed at securing Bajwa’s position as captain of the Canadian national team.Khosa influence on the riseThe CBC report claims that although Khosa recently became Cricket Canada’s president, he has influence over key decisions, including the elevation of Dilpreet Bajwa to captaincy.Soon after the restaurant incident, Khosa reportedly overruled the selectors and the board’s decisions to appoint Bajwa as the captain of the provincial team, even though the selectors had chosen another player.“I resisted it and within 30 minutes or 40 minutes, I got another message from the same number and it freaked me out because it was a picture,” Noah said, as reported by CBC.Sources close to Cricket Canada also told CBC that Khosa, now president of Cricket Canada, was part of the group that pushed Bajwa’s name for the national team and Khosa told Bajwa that he owed Khosa on the team.“I personally feel they want to fix the games, make money from it. That’s why they knew they could use it,” Noah said, referring to the Bishnoi gang.“Other than that, what other reasons could there be that they would go so far as to make him the captain of the Canadian team?”A phone recording alleging spot-fixing emergedThe report also mentions a phone recording from May last year in which former Canada coach Khurram Chauhan was allegedly asked by then Cricket Canada president Amjad Bajwa, CEO Salman Khan and board member Rana Imran to fix parts of matches.Chauhan claimed that he was given a specific team and batting order ahead of the 2025 match against Bermuda, but did not follow the instructions. He said that later he received a call from Salman in which he was angrily asked what have you done?Chauhan was removed from his post in July, a month after the recordings surfaced.
