India completed its seventh consecutive series win against the West Indies after completely outplaying the visitors in the series decider of the three-match T20I series in Mumbai. And, now the focus will be shifted to the three-match ODI series. But before the Men in Blue get into the thick of the things, their veteran pacer, Bhuvneshwar Kumar seems to be doubtful for the series as he complained of pain during the recently concluded series.

According to a report published in the Mumbai Mirror, Bhuvneshwar was having some pain during India’s 67-run-win over the Caribbean team at the Wankhede Stadium. However, the BCCI is yet to give any official information, but the fast bowler has a recent record with injury and with the upcoming season being so huge, the Indian team management will not take any risk with their premier white-ball fast bowler.

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Kumar has been prone to the injuries in the past 18-20 months. He hasn’t played a Test match since the 2018 tour of South Africa- where he was India’s Player of the Series- missed the five-match series in England last and the succeeding Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia due to back issues.

During the 2019 50-over World Cup, Bhuvi suffered a hamstring injury during Team India’s high-intensity game against arch-rivals Pakistan, and even though he made through the tournament, Bhuvneshwar had to miss the T20I series against South Africa and Bangladesh as he continued to recover from injury.

However, the Uttar Pradesh pacer was then asked to recover at the National Cricket Academy, where he took more than expected time to recover and a lot of questions were also raised regarding the same. Bhuvneshwar did make his comeback in the recently concluded T20I series against West Indies where after looking out of form in the initial stage, the bowler came back brilliantly in the series decider.

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While there is no official confirmation about the injury status, it remains to be as to who the team-management names as a replacement for Bhuvneshwar. Meanwhile, the first ODI of the three-match series will take place in Chennai on December 15th.