The ICC board met on Thursday to discuss whether the appointment was a breach of the ICC's constitution, "which requires free and fair elections for office-bearers within Member boards".

The board supported an ICC governance review committee recommendation that it write to the sports ministry, "seeking a full and proper explanation of its intervention that prima facie puts SLC in breach of the ICC's constitution."

Until the issue is resolved, the board also decided that the ICC would withhold the next financial distribution due to the SLC and instead hold it in an escrow account.

The board gave Nuski Mohamed, a nominee of the interim committee, the opportunity to provide information about the status of the committee, and invited him to attend the board meeting as an observer. Mohamed didn't attend the meeting, which therefore had no Sri Lankan representation.

The interim committee had been established because the posts held by the office-bearers, led by president Jayantha Dharmadasa, had become null and void. The laws governing all sports bodies in the country require annual elections to be held on or before March 31. SLC's elections, however, were postponed until the end of April due to the World Cup, which ended on March 29.

(espncricinfo.com)