Pakistan, April 29 -- Sri Lanka's cricket board stepped down on Tuesday after the government asked the sporting body's executive committee to make way for a new administration, officials said.

Sri Lanka Cricket is the country's richest sporting body but it has been plagued by allegations of corruption and mismanagement.

A board official said that its president, Shammi Silva, convened a special meeting to announce his resignation, with 11 months remaining in his fourth two-year term. "The committee resigned to make way for an interim management team headed by a former investment banker, who is also an opposition politician," the official told AFP, asking not to be named.

A government official said Sri Lanka's President Anura Kumara Diss...