The International Cricket Council ( ICC ) has suspended USA Cricket's membership with immediate effect.

The sport’s governing body made the unprecedented move over “repeated and continued breaches of its obligations as an ICC member under the ICC's constitution”, it announced on Tuesday.

The ICC Board cited failures to implement a functional governance structure, lack of progress toward recognition by the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee, and actions that caused reputational damage to the sport in the US and globally. It did not elaborate what those actions were.

The news comes at a disruptive time for the US national teams as they prepare for the 2028 Olympic Games on home soil in Los Angeles , where cricket will feature for the first time in 128 years.

But the ICC s

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