The Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) board elections will be held on January 03, Sports Minister Dayasiri Jayasekara says.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) earlier has urged the Sports Minister to hold fresh elections as soon as possible.
Jayasekera had previously said that elections for Sri Lanka Cricket will be held in January 2016.
SLC has been administered by a nine-member interim committee, headed by former cricketer Sidath Wettimuny, since April 1.
In April, the ICC announced that the appointment of an interim committee at SLC was a breach of the ICC’s constitution. As such, it had placed certain sanctions on SLC, including holding payments due to the board in escrow, and suspending SLC’s voting rights at ICC meetings.
The ICC had also urged SLC to hold elections by October, but this is understood to have been a soft deadline.
