{"id":1048,"date":"2020-07-19T14:24:22","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T08:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=25095"},"modified":"2020-07-19T14:24:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T08:54:22","slug":"bcci-general-manager-of-cricket-operations-saba-karim-steps-down-from-his-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/bcci-general-manager-of-cricket-operations-saba-karim-steps-down-from-his-position\/","title":{"rendered":"BCCI general manager of cricket operations Saba Karim steps down from his position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saba Karim, BCCI\u2019s General Manager (cricket operations) is learnt to have quit from his post and a formal announcement regarding the same is likely soon. Karim was also a former India wicket-keeper who played 1 Test and 34 Odi\u2019s for his country.<\/p>\n<p>Karim came in to work as the General Manager during 2017, with the then CEO Rahul Johri presiding over the appointment<\/p>\n<p>Karim\u2019s exit from the BCCI comes a week after the board accepted Rahul Johri\u2019s resignation as CEO.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, he has been asked to resign. One of the reasons for that is that he was not able to prepare any tangible action plan for domestic cricket (in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic),\u201d a BCCI source told PTI before the news regarding him handing in his resignation came into the forefront. Domestic cricket is unlikely to start before December with the COVID-19 cases continuing to rise in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Further details of Karim\u2019s exit and about who will take over his responsibilities going forward have not been discussed yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Board has not issued a formal statement on the matter but it is learnt that it was not satisfied with Karim\u2019s planning for domestic cricket<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":24180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}