India, Oct. 27 -- Bhuvneshwar Kumar didn't spend the past four years waiting for this moment. There had been no elaborate plan to return to the India dressing room, no pursuit of a comeback, no fixation on reclaiming a place in the side. Whatever cricket came his way, he simply kept playing.

"So, I am feeling very proud that I made a comeback. But the truth is that I did not chase it," Bhuvi said after India's third T20I win against New Zealand in Wellington to take an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match series.

"For four years, whatever was coming in front of me - tournaments, challenges, fitness, whatever else - I kept doing. I never thought that I would want to play cricket for a comeback."

The return to international cricket, w...