{"id":3068,"date":"2022-01-12T13:27:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T07:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=179644"},"modified":"2022-01-12T13:27:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T07:57:59","slug":"feels-more-like-a-vacation-tweets-unmukt-chand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/feels-more-like-a-vacation-tweets-unmukt-chand\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFeels more like a vacation,\u201d tweets Unmukt Chand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under-19 World Cup winning captain Unmukt Chand blows the frustration of keeping him benched throughout the season of Big Bash League.<\/p>\n<p>Former Indian cricketer Unmukt Chand was selected by BBL franchise \u2013 Melbourne Renegades, becoming the first Indian men\u2019s player to get in contract with a BBL team. Chand is said to be eligible to play for United States by 2024 and has already started playing \u2018Minor League.\u2019 Captaining the team of Silicon Valley to the victory, Unmukt has played 77 T20s after making his debut in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Unmukt seemed happy when he signed the contract for Melbourne Renegades, quoting that playing Big Bash League with players all over the world can give him an opportunity to make a name for himself with the motive to win the championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve loved watching the Big Bash and players around the world coming in. I can make a name for myself and hopefully win championships for the teams I play for,\u201d Unmukt Chand quoted while signing the deal with Melbourne Renegades as posted by the team\u2019s official Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>Big Bash League season 11 has faced a lot of disturbance by the COVID-19 cases, and despite losing 7 games out 11, Melbourne Renegades failed to give an opportunity to the 28-year-old Indian.<\/p>\n<p>Unmukt Chand revealed his frustrated phase when lack of opportunities in domestic cricket leagues, including Indian Premier League (IPL) made him choose United States as a platform to continue his passion for cricket. And yet again gets frustrated with the lack of opportunities by Melbourne Renegades.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Feels more like a vacation. Thanks Melbourne!! \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Unmukt Chand (@UnmuktChand9) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UnmuktChand9\/status\/1480862706538205186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not getting any chance to play in BBL, Unmukt Chand\u2019s cryptic tweet reveals the lack of opportunity he received from Melbourne Renegades<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":26150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1037,962,1178,1240,2940,241,2536],"class_list":["post-3068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-bbl","tag-captain","tag-melbourne-renegades","tag-silicon-valley","tag-under-19","tag-united-states","tag-unmukt-chand"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}