Sri Lanka’s Court of Appeal quashed the sports minister’s decision to sack the country’s cricket board and restored the expelled officials on Tuesday pending a full hearing.

The court accepted a petition by board president Shammi Silva challenging minister Roshan Ranasinghe’s move 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 official said.

A day before, Sri Lanka’s sports minister Roshan Ranasinghe sacked the national cricket board on Monday, days after a humiliating defeat by India at the World Cup.

Ranasinghe has been at loggerheads with Sri Lanka Cricket – the richest sports organisation in the financially stricken country – 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.