in the race to partner Sehwag in the Test side. Due to his low scoring rate, he was not considered for One Day Internationals. IPL He played for Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL 2008, IPL 2009, but was dropped eventually as he was deemed too slow for fast paced T-20 cricket. In IPL 2011 he had been signed by Rajasthan Royals, in that season he scored just 53 runs with poor average of 8.83 in 6 innings. After that, he did not get a chance to play even a single match in 2 years. Eventually he announced his retirement from all forms of cricket in 2015. Domestic In September 2008, Aakash played for Delhi in the Nissar Trophy against SNGPL (winners of Quaid-i-Azam Trophy from Pakistan) and scored 4 and 197 for Delhi. The match was drawn but SNGPL won the trophy on first-innings lead. After representing Delhi for a long time, Chopra joined Rajasthan as a guest player in Ranji Plate division. He helped Rajasthan to become the first Plate division team to win the Ranji Trophy followed by another Ranji trophy win in 2010–2011 season. He has won three Ranji titles in total—one with Delhi and two with Rajasthan. He's one of the few Indian cricketers who have scored over 8,000 First-Class runs. Cricket commentary career He did television commentry for Star Sports for long time. His cricket commentary style is similar to Navjot Singh Sidhu. In commentary he use lots of one liner, rhymes. For every player, shot and situation he have one liners and short poems. He also use word play and idioms amid Hindi live TV commentary. Chopra have tendency to repeat lines, often same lines for different players with a set tune. Often fans criticize his commentary. Amid 2018–19 Australia versus India test series, he did commentary for 7 Network, also lent voice for commentary on Sony Ten 2. In January 2023, he left Star Sports, joined Viacom 18 network, and began doing Hindi commentry for them on Sports 18 and Jio Cinema app in South African Twenty 20 league, SA20. Other media His columns regularly appear in Mid-Day and on Cricinfo. In 2009 Chopra released Beyond the Blues: A First-Class Season Like No Other, a diary of Chopra's 2007–08 domestic season. It was published by Harper Collins. It was critically acclaimed and Suresh Menon of Cricinfo wrote that it was "the best book