MLCs 2024: Major League Cricket 2024 has started from July 5. In the second match on the first day, Los Angeles Knight Riders (LAKR) faced Texas Super Kings (TSK). In this match, the Los Angeles Knight Riders team scored 162 runs while playing first, but in response, the Texas team could score only 150 runs. Meanwhile, Knight Riders wicketkeeper batsman Unmukt Chand played an important innings of 68 runs in 45 balls. Unmukt also hit 6 fours and 3 sixes in this innings. This is the same Indian-origin player who could not find a place in the USA T20 World Cup team.
Actually, Unmukt Chand came to bat for Knight Riders in the third over itself because opener Jason Roy was out after scoring just 2 runs. When this Indian-origin player was playing after scoring 5 runs, he hit such a towering six on Naveen Ul Haq’s ball that everyone was stunned. In this fourth over of the innings, Unmukt Chand scored a total of 14 runs in Naveen’s over. In the end, his innings of 68 runs proved very useful for Knight Riders.
ICYMI, Unmukt Chand lit up Grand Prairie with fireworks 👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/LR7sHByvLP
— Los Angeles Knight Riders (@LA_KnightRiders) July 6, 2024
How much money does Unmukt Chand get?
Let us tell you that Unmukt Chand played for Los Angeles Knight Riders last year as well. He gets 65 thousand dollars in US currency for playing one season. This amount is equivalent to about 54 lakh rupees in Indian currency. The captain of this team is Sunil Narine, who scored 488 runs in IPL 2024 at a blistering strike rate of 180. Talking about LAKR’s performance last year, this team was at the bottom of the points table in the first season of MLC. In 2023, the Knight Riders could register only one win out of five matches.
In 2012, India was made Under-19 World Champion
Very few people would know that when India became champion in the Under-19 World Cup for the third time in 2012, Unmukt Chand was captaining Team India. At that time India defeated Australia by 6 wickets in the final. Unmukt Chand was the highest run scorer for Team India in that World Cup. He scored 246 runs in 6 matches at an average of 49.2.
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