MLC 2025: Former U-19 World Cup winning Indian captain UNMUKT CHAND Smashes Shah Rukh Khan’s team for fifty-fifty-video goes viral for cricket news
Unmukt Chand made an impressive start in the Major League Cricket (MLC) season, scoring a half-century for Shah Rukh Khan’s co-owned Los Angeles Knight Riders. Playing at number 3, former India U-19 World Cup winning captain scored 53 off 32 balls with a strike rate of 165.62. His innings consisted of 4 sixes and 4 fours.Despite Chand’s performance, La Knight Riders decreased by 32 runs chasing a target of 220. Andre Russell was rejected for zero, while Sunil Narin, who usually opens for Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL, batted at number 8 and scored 27 off 13 balls.Go beyond the border with our YouTube channel. Subscribe now!Russell and Narin, who are captaining KKR’s sister franchise at MLC, both scored 42 runs and took one wicket each in their four overs mantras.Chand’s performance was closely seen, and he delivered with the bat. He aims to secure a place in the USA cricket team.Watch:Although the USA team is expected to lead in the 2024 T20 World Cup, Chand was not selected. He is yet to make his international debut for the USA.Chand retired from Indian cricket in August 2021 and transferred to the United States. As an American citizen, he cannot return to Indian cricket, but deserve to play in IPL. He has registered for IPL 2025 mega auction.
His IPL career began with Delhi Capital (East Delhi Daredevils) and included stents with Rajasthan Royals and Mumbai Indians. He was part of the Mumbai Indians Squad, who won the IPL Trophy under the leadership of Rohit Sharma in 2015.Chand’s last IPL attendance was for Mumbai Indians in 2016. The former Delhi captain also represented Uttarakhand in domestic cricket.
