Is this the end of the road for Bhuvneshwar Kumar? UP ignores the pacer for the Ranji Trophy 2024-25

Is this the end of the road for Bhuvneshwar Kumar? The Indian Pacer was not included in the Uttar Pradesh Ranji Trophy squad for the first two games of the season. The Aryan Juyal-led side have Aaqib Khan and Ankit Rajpoot as the main pacers as Bhuvneshwar Kumar missed out on selection despite taking 13 wickets in 2 matches in Ranji Trophy 2024.

Last season, Bhuvnewshwar Kumar played two games from Uttar Pradesh and took 13 wickets including an 8/41 against Bengal in Kanpur. However, this time he will not be in action as Bengal travel to Kanpur to face UP in the Ranji Trophy 2024-25.

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With his exclusion from the UP team, it suggests that this might be the end for the Indian Pacer. However, it will be interesting to see what happens in the IPL 2025 mega auction, as that might be the last hope for the swing king.

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UP squad for Ranji Trophy 2024-25

Aryan Juyal (C) (WK), Swastik Chikara, Priyam Garg, Akshdeep Nath, Nitish Rana, Saurabh Kumar, Ankit Rajpoot, Aaqib Khan, Vipraj Nigam, Yash Dayal, Shivam Sharma, Siddhartha Yadav, Madhav Kaushik, Vijay Kumar, Aaditya Sharma (WK), Kritagya Singh.

Standby: Atal Bihari Rai, Prince Yadav, Abhishek Goswami, Vineet Panwar, Vaibhav Chaudhary, Kartikey Jaiswal