Sri Lanka’s Court of Appeal quashed the sports activities minister’s determination to sack the nation’s cricket board and restored the expelled officers on Tuesday pending a full listening to.

The court docket accepted a petition by board president Shammi Silva difficult minister Roshan Ranasinghe’s transfer on Monday to dismiss the Sri Lanka Cricket board and appoint an interim committee.

“The restoring of the board is for two weeks, when the court will hear the case again,” a court docket official mentioned.

Board officers mentioned Silva was as a consequence of return to work after securing an order that prevented the interim committee — headed by former skipper Arjuna Ranatunga — from persevering with in workplace.

The authorities has additionally appointed a cupboard committee to deal with “outstanding issues” of the board.

The minister’s motion adopted a humiliating defeat by India on the World Cup.

Ranasinghe has been at loggerheads with Sri Lanka Cricket — the richest sports activities organisation on the financially stricken island — for months over allegations of widespread corruption.

The nation’s 1996 World Cup-winning skipper Ranatunga had vowed to scrub up the board and rebuild the nationwide workforce after taking on on Monday.

“Sri Lanka Cricket had become known as the most corrupt institution in the country,” Ranatunga mentioned on Monday.

“I want to change that image.”