Whatever happened to Unmukt Chand

[raki05]

https://www.hindustantimes.com/cricket/the-fault-in-his-star/story-flcr0oL2DXAhMRVDpQctFK.html .

 

Great to see  that he is still striving for comeback . Success is relative term and if you have success you have lot of relatives otherwise you will hear usual BS that success got to his head and boohot udd raha tha aa gaya zameen pe. 

[cricketfan28]

hope he rises again.

[cricketfan28]

8 minutes ago, Shaz1 said:

I remember this dude was hyped to the moon in IPL.

Everybody is hyped to the moon in IPL. IPL is like too much masala masking stale meat.

[Vilander]

He won u19 wc as a captain and scored heavily. It was justified hype. He had problem with high pace. If he fixed that he could have a decent career. 

[beetle]

He is still young . 

Playing for Uttarakhand now.

[someone]

Very few U-19 players, go on to play for India. Unmukt is no different, yet was lucky with being labelled as the next “Kohli”. He got incredibly hype and money early days.

 

Today, it seems he isn’t complaining or blaming others, and thats a good thing.

[mani sha]

Feel he will be back - Wish him luck 

[Jimmy Cliff]

Looked a world class tailunt in the u-19 WC Final 

 

 

[WeStMiDz]

Should be a lesson for the Gill's and Shaw's of today. You can fall away in the blink of an eye so you better put in the hard yards. 

[beetle]

There were others too like him who were supposed to make it but did not.

 

Unmukt got more hype and fame initially...mostly for noncricketing reasons .

 

I also believe fame did go to his head initially.

The kapil dev incident explains it .

He should have been practicing and not giving talks or publicising his book at 19 .RD also advised him to concentrate on cricket at his book launch or book tour.

 

But that is behind him now. He probably realises it now and is still young enough to concentrate on cricket and make it .

 

Good luck to him .

 

[sandsaims]

Success went to his head and he started behaving like a superstar and ofcourse writing a book at that stage about his journey just showed how self obsessed he was.

[raki05]

43 minutes ago, beetle said:

There were others too like him who were supposed to make it but did not.

 

Unmukt got more hype and fame initially...mostly for noncricketing reasons .

 

I also believe fame did go to his head initially.

The kapil dev incident explains it .

He should have been practicing and not giving talks or publicising his book at 19 .RD also advised him to concentrate on cricket at his book launch or book tour.

 

But that is behind him now. He probably realises it now and is still young enough to concentrate on cricket and make it .

 

Good luck to him .

 

He should inspired with dhawan. Dhawan also got hype during his u19 days but it took him long after u19 to get in to indian team. He grinded himself in domestic and then ipl of 12 and 13 I suppose which finally brought him to indian team.

[Bigg Brother]

U-19 teams are mostly immature when it comes to chase targets regardless the number of runs, this guy helped India win the wc in final while chasing that too after India was 4 down. His hype was mainly due to his arrogant batting style which World Cricket had started becoming very attentive about after Kohli's Hobart and Mirpur Heroics same year. I can recall Mark Ramprakash in one of the post match of that wc saying this guy will play for India in few months and Slater in one of Australia's senior team's post match saying "India has found another Kohli, while where is our version of Kohli?" The idea of getting someone like Kohli in the Indian team was mouth watering specially when Kohli had started to dominate the ODI cricket in 2012 when news about Kohli's century had started to become norm.

 

He is still 26 and lots of time left in career, Dhawan debuted at 25 in ODIs and 28 in tests, Agarwal at 28. So, nothing to get disheartened about.

Edited September 14, 2019 by Bigg Brother

[puneet28]

He deviated from cricket due to fame and sponsors. He released his auto-biography and eventually losing his position in Delhi Ranji team. Good he is try to come back now. 

[Shaukat]

Man That made me weak...by the looks of it this boy seem mature and kind-hearted. Dearly hope he cracks it soon

[MCcricket]

The guy has experience and technique, let's hope he makes a comeback, I am all for the under dogs

[BlackMamba]

On 9/14/2019 at 12:18 AM, sandsaims said:

Success went to his head and he started behaving like a superstar and ofcourse writing a book at that stage about his journey just showed how self obsessed he was.

Many players have suffered because of "Success went into his head" syndrome.  Kambli, Amol Mazumdar, Sadanand Viswanath and of late Shreyas Iyer, Ambati Rayudu and not to mention even Virat Kohli.

 

Some players realize it early and turn it around.  Some - just rest on their imaginary laurels.

Edited September 17, 2019 by BlackMamba

[nevada]

On 9/14/2019 at 7:55 PM, Bigg Brother said:

U-19 teams are mostly immature when it comes to chase targets regardless the number of runs, this guy helped India win the wc in final while chasing that too after India was 4 down. His hype was mainly due to his arrogant batting style which World Cricket had started becoming very attentive about after Kohli's Hobart and Mirpur Heroics same year. I can recall Mark Ramprakash in one of the post match of that wc saying this guy will play for India in few months and Slater in one of Australia's senior team's post match saying "India has found another Kohli, while where is our version of Kohli?" The idea of getting someone like Kohli in the Indian team was mouth watering specially when Kohli had started to dominate the ODI cricket in 2012 when news about Kohli's century had started to become norm.

 

He is still 26 and lots of time left in career, Dhawan debuted at 25 in ODIs and 28 in tests, Agarwal at 28. So, nothing to get disheartened about.

Even Ian Chapell was very impressed with him, calling for his inclusion in the senior team right away. Dhawan had a decent IPL career before making his international debut but Chand's IPL career never took off. 

[sandsaims]

29 minutes ago, BlackMamba said:

Many players have suffered because of "Success went into his head" syndrome.  Kambli, Amol Mazumdar, Sadanand Viswanath and of late Shreyas Iyer, Ambati Rayudu and not to mention even Virat Kohli.

 

Some players realize it early and turn it around.  Some - just rest on their imaginary laurels.

The difference here being this guy had never even made it to the Indian team, was still only in the U19 team.

[prasen82]

Feel sad for him... Wanna root for him to see if he can make it.. go unmukt...