Ranasinghe has been at loggerheads with Sri Lanka Cricket — the richest sports organisation on the financially stricken island — for months over allegations of widespread corruption. The country’s 1996 World Cup-winning skipper Arjuna Ranatunga has been appointed chairman of a new interim board, Ranasinghe’s office said in a statement. “Sports minister Roshan Ranasinghe has formed an interim committee for Sri Lanka Cricket,” the statement said.
The new seven-member panel also includes a retired supreme court judge and a former board president.
The move came a day after the board’s second-highest officer, secretary Mohan de Silva, quit.