NEW DELHI: Sri Lanka's sports minister, Roshan Ranasinghe, made a significant move on Monday by sacking the national cricket board shortly after the country's humiliating defeat by India at the World Cup. This decision follows months of conflict between Ranasinghe and Sri Lanka Cricket, the wealthiest sports organisation in the financially strained island, over allegations of widespread corruption within the board.
To lead a new interim board, Ranasinghe has appointed Arjuna Ranatunga, Sri Lanka's 1996 World Cup-winning captain. The newly formed seven-member panel also includes a retired supreme court judge and a former board president.
