Lawrence Bishnoi and Dilpreet Bajwa Canadian cricket has been rocked by allegations ranging from threats, selection pressure to match-fixing, with the Lawrence Bishnoi gang at the center of a CBC investigation.Dilpreet Bajwa, who led the Canadian team in the recent Men’s T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka, is under scrutiny after being linked to a match-fixing case in the Canada-New Zealand match during the tournament.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SIGN UP NOW!A report by Canadian public broadcaster Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) said that Bajwa may have links to jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi’s network and may have been influenced to fix matches for Bishnoi’s group.The CBC report also stated that the Bishnoi gang may have played a role in Bajwa’s rise in Canadian cricket. The same gang was accused of killing singer Sidhu Moose Wala, murdering politician Baba Siddique and threatening Bollywood actor Salman Khan.Restaurant threat“Last July (2025), about 25 cricketers, fresh from winning a major provincial tournament, gathered at a restaurant in Surrey, British Columbia. Two players from the tournament made their way from an outdoor patio to a table inside where the Canadian men’s national team star was dining with another group. According to sources, they claimed to represent a violent Bishnoi group in Canada. He did not support the rise of a young player named Dilpreet Bajwa and another player in men’s provincial team and national team, he and his family would face consequences,” the CBC report said.The Nationals player, who was threatened, then spoke to a person CBC identified as Noah about the incident at the restaurant. Noah, like a national player, has also received death threats.Bajwa, then 22, was named captain three weeks before the T20 World Cup began in February this year. The alleged fixing incident involved the fifth over of New Zealand’s chase against Canada in the T20 World Cup when skipper Dilpreet Bajwa came on.He is mainly a batsman who bowls offspin. He came to bowl with New Zealand at 35 for 2. He started with a no-ball, pitched wide down the leg side and smashed 15 runs in this one.The restaurant threat is part of a wider trendThe CBC report says the restaurant-like threats are part of what it describes as a pattern of intimidation within Canadian cricket involving people who claim to be affiliated with the Lawrence Bishnoi gang. Such groups seem to try to place cricket administrators and players in specific positions.According to sources cited by the CBC, the intimidation cases are being reported in British Columbia and are linked to individuals associated with Arvinder Khosa, the head of Cricket BC and the recently elected president of Cricket Canada.The report says several sources believe the threats are linked to Khosa due to his association with the players (who threatened the national player in a restaurant) involved in the incident. Khosa said he did not know the full details of what happened at the restaurant, but later had a call with the players involved, along with then-Cricket Canada president Amjad Bajwa. When asked by the CBC, Amjad Bajwa, who is not related to Dilpreet Bajwa, denied knowing about the threats.The people who were allegedly threatened said the purpose of the intimidation was to secure Bajwa’s position as the captain of the Canadian national team.Khosa’s influence on the riseThe CBC report claims that while Khosa may have only recently become the president of Cricket Canada, his influence appears to be on key decisions, including the appointment of Dilpreet Bajwa as captain.Soon after the restaurant incident, Khosa reportedly overturned the decision of the selectors and board to appoint Bajwa as the captain of the provincial team even though the selectors had selected another player.“I countered 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 quoted in the CBC report.A source close to Cricket Canada was also quoted by the CBC as saying that Khosa, now president of Cricket Canada, was part of the group that pushed Bajwa’s name for the national team and that Khosa told Bajwa that he owed Khosa his spot on the team.“My personal feeling is that they wanted to fix the games, make money off of it. That’s why they knew they could use him,” Noah said, referring to those claiming to be from the Bishnoi gang.“What other reasons can there be that they can make him the captain of the Canadian team?”A phone record appears with a supposed location fixThe report also mentions a phone recording from May last year in which former Canadian coach Khurram Chohan was allegedly asked to fix parts of matches by then Cricket Canada president Amjad Bajwa, CEO Salman Khan and board member Rana Imran.Chohan claimed he was given a specific team and batting before the 2025 match against Bermuda, but did not follow the instructions. He said that later Salman called him angrily and asked him, “What did you do?”Chohan was removed from his position in July, about a month after the tape surfaced.
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