NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has rescheduled to 30 November its final hearing of the India cricket board case.

The apex court had in its last hearing of the case on 11 October, fixed 26 October for final hearing on the petitions filed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), challenging a Madras High Court order restraining newly-elected board officials from functioning.

The Supreme Court had then stayed the Madras HC order restraining newly elected/appointed office-bearers from taking over the board. The apex board had also kept the cricket board supremo Jagmohan Dalmiya on the back foot by restraining him from becoming the BCCI's patron-in-chief.

The bench, comprising Justices N Santosh Hegde and SB Sinha, had stated then that prima facie the high court did not act properly by passing the order restraining the newly elected board while entertaining a review petition filed by Netaji Cricket Club (NCC), the petitioner before the high court.

Till 30 November, the apex court's interim order of 11 October will continue to be in force.

The reason given for the postponement by the constitution bench headed by Justice Hegde is that the hearing could not be completed as another matter had to be heard first, due to which the hearing was rescheduled.