For third time in 2023, Sarfaraz Khan was ignored by BCCI’s selection committee for a place in the Indian Test team. Last week a BCCI official, privy to selection developments told PTI that Sarfaraz was ignored for his below-par “fitness level” and “off-field conduct”. Now, Ex-India selector Saba Karim has slammed BCCI for the remarks made.

In conversation with Sportskeeda, Saba Karim said –

“I don’t believe in all that, I think that’s the work of the management and the coach to handle such cricketers if there is any issue like that, but having interacted with Sarfaraz at all.

“I don’t think there is an issue at all. If that is the issue, how come he has been playing regularly for Mumbai? [We have] not heard anything from the Mumbai coach or the captain or the management.

Karim added – “He has been playing regularly. he has been fit, he has played most of the matches. And he has played all format matches for Mumbai, as well as the Rest of India or zonal levels. And he has done well in all those matches. That, in my mind, cannot be the ground for non-selection.”

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Karim further said –

“See when you pick a side, all 15 players, just like the human race, everybody’s different. So the work of the management comes in how you treat the player, how you monitor them, how you guide them, so that you get the best out of them.

“I think that is the role, that’s the biggest role of the selector and the team management, more of the team management. I think these are very flimsy grounds for non-selection.