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Chand shot to prominence when he captained India Under-19 to victory in the
2012 World Cup, upsetting the hosts Australia with a calm, unbeaten 111 in a
tense chase.
His temperament and self-belief stood out throughout the
tournament, helping India through in unfamiliar conditions - it was his third
consecutive century in a final for India. Chand is the latest in the assembly
line of Delhi batsmen, and has been compared to the likes of Virat Kohli, a
world U-19 title-winning captain in 2008.
He also had the benefit of two
seasons in first-class cricket and an IPL contract before the World Cup. He
made his Ranji debut while still in school, and hit his maiden century (151) in
his fourth game. An aggressive right-hander, he tends to go for his shots early.
Chand is also an interesting personality off the field, maintaining a regular
diary and reading dictionaries in his spare time.
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Childhood:-
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Chand is the son of Mr Bharat Chand Thakur,who is teacher at Rajkiya Pratibha
Vikas Vidyalaya at Surajmal Vihar, and Rajeshwari Chand. Unmukt started
playing cricket when he was 6 years old. Unmukt's uncle Sunder Chand Thakur has
played a major role in encouraging him to play cricket. He did his schooling
from Delhi Public School, Noida and then Modern School, Barakhamba Road in
Delhi. He is currently a student of St. Stephens College, Delhi. He plays for the L.B. Shastri Club
situated in Bharat Nagar. His coach is Sanjay Bhardwaj, who is also Gautam
Gambhir's coach. He has
represented Delhi in the U-15, U-16 and U-19 age groups.
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Career:-
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Chand has scored 435 runs during his stint with the Delhi U-19 team. The 435
runs include 2 centuries and 1 half century. His outstanding performance in the
U-19, gave him a place in the Delhi Ranji squad. He scored 151 runs on a
seaming track against a seasoned Railways attack in Ranji trophy 2010-11. That
year he also scored 2 half centuries against Assam and Saurashtra. In fact he scored 400 runs for Delhi in 5 Ranji matches. He
was the captain of the Delhi U-19 team and the North Zone U-19 team. He then
went on to become the captain of the India Under-19 cricket team for the quadrangular series that was held
in Vishakhapatnam, India. The quadrangular series included U-19
teams from India, Sri
Lanka, West
Indies and Australia. He scored an unbeaten 122 against Sri Lanka
U-19.
He ended the tournament with 336 runs from seven outings, just one behind
Australia’s Cameron Bancroft.He is also a part of the IPL team, Delhi
Daredevils. He has participated in Vinoo Mankad Trophy and the Cooch Behar
Trophy at the junior level. He was the junior most player in the IPL IV.
Playing for Delhi Daredevils he was clean bowled on the second ball by Lasith
Malinga in
the Delhi's Inaugural match against Mumbai Indians. He was caught by Rahul
Dravid on the bowling of Shane Warne in his second match against Rajasthan
Royals for 2 runs. He also participated in the Syed Mushtaq Ali
Trophy.Currently he is playing Ranji for Delhi and scored 245 runs in 3 matches
played so far. In April 2012 India U-19 cricket team have won quadrangular
series in Australia under his captaincy. On 26th August 2012 he led the Indian Under-19 cricket team to a victory in the 2012 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup being played at Australia. India beat
Australia to lift the World Cup with Unmukt Chand hitting a captain's knock of
111* in 130 balls which consisted of 6 sixes and 7 fours.
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Unmukt Chand savours 'great journey'
India's
captain Unmukt Chand has said winning the World Cup in
Townsville was a fitting end for an Under-19 side that began its journey over a
year ago and has enjoyed so much success along the way. The World Cup was the
fourth tournament Chand's team has won, after two quadrangular titles and a
shared Asia Cup trophy.
"It has been a great journey and a great finish
I can say," Chand said after scoring an unbeaten century in India's chase
of 226. "We don't know when we will play again [as a team], probably we
won't play again together, so that's a bit of an emotional thing as well.
Really happy that we could pull it off and finish it on a high."
India's World Cup campaign was not entirely smooth:
they lost the first game against West Indies and it wasn't until the semi-final
that their batting began to show collective promise. "That's the good
part," Chand said of the challenges India had overcome. "Initially we
have had a few jitters but we carried on really well and that's what matters
the most. We peaked at the right times and that's a quality of good
teams."
In the final, the bowlers, after reducing Australia
to 38 for 4, had a rare off day and India's batsmen needed to achieve the highest
successful chase of the tournament at Tony Ireland Stadium to win the World
Cup. Chand, however, praised his bowlers for keeping Australia to a total as
low as 225 for 8.
"It happens at times. Our bowlers have done
really well in all the previous matches and I guess they bowled really well
today as well," Chand said. "You can't expect a bowling side to
restrict the opposition to 150 all the time. 225, we have restricted them to a
very low target I feel."
India's chase got off to a poor start, when Prashant
Chopra was caught down the leg side in the second over. That changed quickly,
though, when Baba Aparajith joined Chand and gave a masterclass in driving on
the off side. They added 73 in quick time and gave India a buffer in case they
lost quick wickets, which they did.
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"It's only a matter of one partnership. One
good partnership on this wicket, it was a dream wicket to bat on," Chand
said. "We knew that we would pull it off if we had one good partnership
and that's what I was telling the other batsmen with me. To back yourself,
believe yourself and keep communicating."
India went from 75 for 1 to 97 for 4, though, but
Chand found another steady partner in Smit Patel, who had scored a fighting
half-century in difficult conditions against West Indies in the opening group
game. Both were dropped, when Chand was on 38 and Smit on 2. India needed 91
off 90 balls when the batting Powerplay had to be taken but Chand and Smit did
not change their approach much, scoring only 18 off the first four overs during
the restrictions.
"What
I was thinking inside, and I had heard Dhoni speak of this before, that in the
38th over I won't take a risk because the bowler is not under as much pressure
as he is in the 46th or the 47th over. I was just thinking that I should take
it to the last moment, because you know six, seven or eight runs, you can get
anytime in an over. The important thing was to save wickets. If you have
wickets in hand, even eight or nine [per over] on this track was not a
difficult task."
As it so happened, Chand carted Ashton Turner's
off-spin over the midwicket boundary in the last over of batting Powerplay, the
40th. After three more overs of accumulation, India needed 49 off 42 when Chand
chipped Alex Gregory to midwicket, where William Bosisto dropped the chance.
Chand hit a six down the ground two balls later.
"I was not thinking anything at the time,"
he said about the drop and the following six. "I was just thinking to get
to 226. I was talking to Smit, I didn't look at the score ... I didn't know I
had scored a century until the crowd shouted and that's when I took out my bat
and all. I was in ... what do people call it? The zone? I was trying to stop
Smit from hitting unnecessary shots, I was going and speaking to him and
telling him to play within his limits."
The boundaries came quickly after that as India made
a dash for the target, Smit achieving it with a pull to the midwicket boundary
in the 48th over. India's coach Bharat Arun said their success was in part due
to the manner in which his team approached the final. The Indians had appeared
remarkably relaxed on the field in the lead-up to the toss. Arun, Chand and
Kamal Passi were in conversation while sitting on the grass, and a few of the
others were having low intensity warm-ups and drills.
"We felt we needed to be absolutely relaxed.
We've been insisting right from the beginning," Arun said. "You
cannot ask the boys to relax and then be intense with these guys, so you'll
have to be cool. Unless they are relaxed they won't focus on the process, if
they are pressurised the process goes kaput.
"We said today's game was just another game for
us. There was a big tag attached to it, added pressure, I guess we played by
what we decided we would."
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