Days after being hailed as a hero for leading the India Under 19 side to World Cup victory, cricketer Unmukt Chand is in an unenviable position as he stands to lose a year of college due to low attendance.

The Delhi University rules mandate a student to have at least 33.3 per cent attendance in an academic session after all exemptions, but Unmukt, a student of St Stephen's college, could not attend the requisite number of tutorials owing to his cricketing engagements. He was thus denied permission to appear for the first year BA examinations by his college.u00a0u00a0