India's paralysed cricket board received a boost on Monday when the country's top court granted a stay on a previous order barring newly elected officials from taking over.
A two-judge bench of the Supreme Court stayed the order of a Madras High Court bench that appointed retired judge S. Mohan as an interim administrator to head the cash-rich body.
The Madras court's order came on Friday after it admitted a petition from a local club that alleged irregularities in Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) elections in Calcutta on September 29.
The Supreme Court, however, said it would look into the conduct of the controversial elections in an upcoming hearing on October 26.
"If we feel on the next date of hearing that everything was not all right during the recently held elections, then we will order fresh elections," the Supreme Court order said.
It also put on hold the appointment of outgoing president Jagmohan Dalmiya as the patron-in-chief, which had already been stayed by a lower court.
Controversy over the elections erupted after a representative of the regional Maharashtra Cricket Association was barred from voting and Dalmiya used his casting vote to decide the winner of a tie.
Dalmiya-protege Ranbir Singh Mahendra was declared victor over Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar. The election results had been tied 15-15 before Dalmiya's decisive vote.