Sri Lanka's sports minister, Roshan Ranasinghe, sacked the national cricket board following a World Cup defeat by India. The decision follows months of conflict between Ranasinghe and Sri Lanka Cricket over corruption allegations. Arjuna Ranatunga, Sri Lanka's 1996 World Cup-winning captain, has been appointed to lead a new interim board. The seven-member panel includes a retired supreme court judge and a former board president. The resignation of the board's second-highest officer, secretary Mohan de Silva, came a day prior to Ranasinghe's action.
