Career
First class career
Karim started his first-class career forEye injury
The effects of an eye injury suffered while keeping for India against Bangladesh in a limited-overs match in May 2000 ended his playing career. However, he played oneInvolvement in cricket associations
Appointment with BCCI
On 1 January 2018, Saba Karim was appointed by BCCI as General Manager, Cricket Operations. Primarily, his major responsibilities held as giving strategic direction to the cricket department, implementing the operational plans, budgeting, determining and monitoring the compliance of match playing regulations, standards of venues, administration of Domestic Program. Apart from Saba, former pacer Venkatesh Prasad's name was also highlighted for applying for the same position.National selector
On 27 September 2012 Saba Karim was appointed as the national selector from the East Zone.Controversy
In September 2019, Karim was sent a notice by Bihar Cricket Association for interfering in the process of the age-verification test of the U-16 players by anti-doping manager Abhijit Salvi. As per the BCA chief, Karim stopped the checks once the players picked by the disqualified committee of the BCA were tested. The BCA chief in question remarked – "You should not forget that you are holding a public post in the BCCI as GM Cricket Operations and from the above actions, it is abundantly clear that you are bent upon allowing the disqualified committee to sell out the talent of Bihar. You should refrain from taking part in the politics of Bihar. Through this legal notice, I would like to request you to please refrain from doing all such acts. You should also not forget that none is above the law" In January 2020, Saba Karim's son Fidel Saba was booked under section 279 and 338 (grievous hurt to any person by doing any act so rashly or negligently as to endanger human life) of IPC for ramming his Honda Jazz car numbered UP16 BJ0537 into a passing woman. In October 2019, Saba Karim was criticized for not arranging enough pink balls for the various domestic matches despite Sourav Ganguly's insistence on the same. A functionary was quoted as saying – "Had Karim ensured that we had domestic matches under lights, says knockouts of the Ranji Trophy or for that matter the Irani Cup, we would have had enough balls ready. But the whole idea was almost put into the boot of the car. There was no effort made. So now, when we have to provide for close to 48 balls – to the two teams, the match officials, etc – where do we get them from? How about substitute balls if one ball is hit out of the park after 34 overs? You need a ball of the almost same condition. Where do we get them from?” Since October 2019, Saba has been accused of the unconstitutional appointment of the support staff of the women's national team by CoA member Diana Edulji and BCCI's new apex council member Shantha Rangaswamy. Edulji wrote in an email to the BCCI CEO that candidates for the post of a video analyst for the national women's team were interviewed on Friday despite Pushkar Sawant, the current analyst, having been already nominated by Karim, without keeping the selectors in the loop.References
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Karim, Saba 1967 births Living people India Test cricketers Indian cricketers India One Day International cricketers Indian Muslims East Zone cricketers Bengal cricketers Bihar cricketers St. Xavier's Patna alumni Cricketers from Patna India national cricket team selectors Indian cricket commentators Wicket-keepers Cricketers from Bihar