“Cricket is a universal game and even if the means can change, the final objective is always the same – to play cricket at the highest level,” Chand wrote in his retirement position in 2021.Unmukt Chand has endured too many swings of misfortune in his cricket stay. To be a captain of India under 19, winner of the World Cup in 2012, retired from the Indian cricket at the age of 28, the right -handed striker finally found his feet in his house far from his home.Go beyond the border with our YouTube channel. Subscribe now!To continue the universal game, Delhi’s boy moved to the San Francisco Bay region in 2021, with a dream of playing cricket for the American national team. It’s been four years ago, and he has not yet received this inaugural call from USA Cricket.“Moving to the United States was something like a second chance for me. My only goal when I left for the United States was to play for the national team,” he told Timesofindia.com before the third edition of Major League Cricket 2025 (MLC).
After having succeeded in the cricket of minor leagues, a national T20 competition in the United States, he hoped to be chosen for the T20 2024 World Cup, held in the United States and in the Caribbean, but it was not selected.“The World Cup was something very important. And that’s how I also timed my retirement from India,” he said.Unmukt’s numbers in the first two MLC editions, where he plays for Los Angeles Knight Riders (Lakr), were not good enough. During the first season, he only achieved 68 points in four outings, and in the following season, he scored 158 points in six games.
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However, in the MLC 2025, Unmukt found its rhythm. He is the only positive point in Lakr because the team currently languishes at the bottom of the points table. With 243 points in seven games, Unmukt is currently placed sixth in the list of Top Run-Getters.Will this be enough to bring it into the American side? The 32 -year -old man definitively knows what he should do.“Whenever I have not been selected, performances were the only way to come back. So I cannot think that in this direction,” he said.“You know, as a cricket player, my lines are always very straight: I want to continue working hard and continue to improve my skills, and continue to assure me that every time I have the opportunity, I go there and I play.“My only way to come back is to let my bat continue to speak,” he said.
Lakr has made three games this season and they are mathematically out of the playoff race. But for Unmukt, these matches will be a chance to finish the season at the top in its quest for redemption.From his presented as a prodigious talent to try to find his feet in another country, he was chaotic for Unmukt, but it is his only way to live his dream.“I grew up with this state of mind and this mentality that I just want to continue to improve every day. The whole fight is with me. I want to be a better version of myself. This is something that was a very strong fundamental thing in my head,” he said.
“I think the trip is still in progress. I still have several years.