ICC suspends Cricket Canada’s membership

• The International Cricket Council (ICC) has suspended Canada over breaches of the national board's membership obligations.

• However, Canadian national representative teams will continue to be eligible to participate in ICC events during the period of suspension.

• The move comes weeks after the ICC’s anti-corruption unit launched an investigation into Cricket Canada.

• To support the continued participation and development of the national teams, Cricket Canada will be permitted to access ICC funding through a controlled funding mechanism, under the oversight of ICC management, solely for approved national team programmes.

• Cricket Canada will have to follow a set of conditions, aimed at fixing its governance and administrative issues, to restore membership.

• The progress against these conditions will be monitored by the ICC Normalisation Committee, supported by ICC management, with reinstatement of membership subject to the board being satisfied that the conditions have been fully met.

International Cricket Council (ICC)

• The International Cricket Council (ICC) is the global governing body for cricket. 

• Representing 108 member nations, the ICC governs and administrates the game and works with its members to grow the sport. 

• The ICC is responsible for the staging of all ICC events.

• The ICC presides over the ICC Code of Conduct, playing conditions, the Decision Review System and other ICC regulations. 

• It also appoints all match officials that officiate at all sanctioned international matches.

• Through the Anti-Corruption Unit it coordinates action against corruption and match fixing.

• It was founded on June 15, 1909 as the Imperial Cricket Conference, at Lord’s under the chairmanship of the MCC president, the Earl of Chesterfield. England, South Africa and Australia were its founding members.

• In the late 1920s, regular meetings took place and ICC began to emerge as an organisation. Even then it was still very much an adjunct of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). Its chairman was always the MCC president, and the MCC secretary performed the same function for ICC.

• When the Imperial Cricket Conference met in England in 1926, it permitted three new Test playing nations — West Indies, New Zealand and India. 

• India played its first Test match against England on June 25, 1932

• In July 1965, the ICC changed its name to International Cricket Conference.

• The change of name to International Cricket Council came in 1989.

• By 1993, the administrative link with MCC was broken. 

• In August 2005, ICC left its base at Lord’s to set up its new headquarters in Dubai.