Saba Karim resigns from BCCI General Manager

New Delhi: Former India wicket-keeper Saba Karim has resigned from his post as general manager cricket operations in the Indian cricket board. His position has been under scrutiny for a while as per the reports. In fact, even in the Apex Council meeting on Friday, it was K.V.P. Rao who discussed and presented the roadmap for domestic cricket with the officials.

The Board has not issued a formal statement on the matter but it is learnt that it was not satisfied with Karim’s planning for domestic cricket.

Karim’s major role involved the smooth running of domestic cricket and it was his idea to have Rahul Dravid as head of cricket for National Cricket Academy. Karim, who had taken on the role in January 2018, sent in his resignation to Jay Shah, the BCCI secretary, and Sourav Ganguly, the president, on July 18 and will be serving out his notice period.

It is learnt that the outgoing women selectors have accused Saba of bullying and interfering in the selection matters. His mishandling a national team came to the fore when Mithali Raj, an international icon, time and again said that she was dragged into the controversy where she was pitted against Harmanpreet Kaur after she confided in Saba.

The former wicket-keeper batsman represented India in one Test and 34 ODIs. He played 120 first-class games and 124 List ‘A’ matches in a career spanning close to 18 years. He has a first-class average of 56.66 with 22 centuries and 33 half-centuries that helped him amass over 7000 runs while playing for Bihar first and later Bengal.