I'm John Batchel with the Friends of History Debating Society. Jeremy's actress is in New South Wales,

and Jeremy, for several years now, has been teaching me cricket. I'm a dutiful student. I watch the

clips at night. I study the scorecard. I don't have the lingo to talk it, but I understand what

they mean when they're talking about it. However, recently it's come to my attention that all

is not well in the cricket by the sea. Something's funny going on between Canada, maybe New Zealand,

but definitely Canada. For several weeks now, we've been waiting for the results of an investigation,

if there is one, of a game that was

T20 game faster one day between a Canadian team and a New Zealand team. No results yet,

but they haven't denied that they didn't find anything. And now, Jeremy, what's happened with

the Quicket Council? Well, John, what's happened with the cricket council?

Well, John, there's been a very big, big plot twist. The International Cricket Council,

which is based in Dubai and effectively manages all the funding for all the international cricket teams around the world, has frozen funding to the Canadian Cricket Board for the

next six months because, and I quote,

allegations of corruption, financial mismanagement and match fixing. And what the International

Cricket Council has requested from Canadian Cricket is to basically get themselves in order,

effectively run the investigations, stamp out any of these allegations or at least fix

them. Otherwise, guess what? At the end of the six months, Canadian cricket may not receive

any more funding. And John, honestly, while the funding is not a huge amount of money, it's really

only around about $2 million US. It is big for Canada because Canada isn't necessarily the biggest

cricketing country in the world.

So this is devastating for them, but they've got six months now to fix themselves.

And this also tells us something about the allegations we spoke about last time about

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