He played as a wicket keeper for the most of his career, and was an exciting but unorthodox right-handed batsman who competed for international selection with contemporary Farokh Engineer.

Budhi Kunderan made his first-class debut for the Cricket Club of India against the touring West Indies in 1958–59.

Through the fifties India had wicket keepers of about the same quality in Naren Tamhane, Probir Sen and Nana Joshi.

Kunderan had already played three Test matches when he made his Ranji Trophy debut in 1960 and scored 205 for Railways against Jammu-Kashmir.

[4] The Sino-Indian War put him temporarily out of action as the teams he represented, Railways and Services, were withdrawn from the competition; he just played one Ranji match.

Engineer was selected ahead of Kunderan when England again visited India in 1963–64, but he was found medically unfit on the eve of the first Test at Madras.

[8] Engineer was then recalled for the New Zealand series that followed while Kunderan played as an opening batsman in the place of injured Dilip Sardesai.

[citation needed] He served as a professional in the Lancashire league and then with Drumpellier in the Western Union in Scotland.