Former India player turned veteran commentator Aakash Chopra said Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s international career might have hit a roadblock, considering he has not been added to the squad for India lately. However, Bhuvneshwar wasn’t a part of India’s squad for the recently concluded T20I series against Australia. He hasn’t been picked in any of the squads for the upcoming multi-format tour of South Africa also.

In a video shared on his YouTube channel, Chopra 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.”

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However, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, with 16 wickets in 14 games, was SRH’s leading wicket-taker in the last edition of the IPL. He was the joint fourth-highest wicket-taker in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, claiming 16 dismissals in seven matches at an excellent economy rate of 5.84 as well.

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