India Tour Of South Africa: Aakash Chopra Expresses Concern Over Bhuvneshwar Kumar's Future

Former India opener and commentator Aakash Chopra expressed his concern over pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar's career. Kumar, who represented India in 121 ODIs, 21 Tests, and 87 T20 games, played his last match in 2022. Despite being one of the leading bowlers for Team India, the selectors left Kumar out for the South Africa tour.

Sharing his views of the veteran pacer's career, Aakash Chopra in a video on his YouTube channel said, "I and you won't decide his career because we are not the selectors, and who are we to say whether it's over or a long career is left? It's not looking good in the current scenario. It seems like a roadblock has come."

"You are not getting opportunities. You had a decent Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy and a decent IPL as well but you are not getting picked anywhere. It was decided long back that they won't pick him in ODIs but now they are not picking him for T20Is also," Chopra added.

Chopra further added that it looks like the BCCI selectors have already started looking for new options.

"So it seems like the selectors have started looking in other directions and there are options. It is a praiseworthy thing about Indian cricket that you always have so many options available that you say you can go with someone else," he added.

"So Mukesh Kumar, Avesh Khan, Deepak Chahar, Arshdeep Singh, Prasidh Krishna, and then you forget Umran Malik, whom you played matches four months ago. So this is the reality of Indian cricket. So for Bhuvi, you get the drift."

India is scheduled to play three T20s, three ODIs, and two tests against the Proteas starting December 10. It will be the first time in history that Team India will have three different captains for three formats.