Duleep Trophy: Duleep Trophy matches are currently being played in India's domestic cricket. The second round of the Duleep Trophy 2024 edition is being played from today (12 September). In this edition of the Duleep Trophy, the teams have been divided into different teams of India instead of zones.

If we talk about the history of Duleep Trophy, it has been quite golden. In a match played in Duleep Trophy, a batsman batted for 720 minutes and scored a score on the field which is still alive in the memories of this tournament.

Raman Lamba batted for 720 minutes in the Duleep Trophy

In the final match of the 1986 season of Duleep Trophy, North Zone and South Zone teams faced each other. Playing for North Zone in this final match, Raman Lamba, who was considered a stylish batsman of that time, played an innings of 320 runs while batting for 720 minutes against the strong team of West Zone.

In this incredible innings, Raman Lamba scored 156 runs in 36 balls with the help of 30 fours and 6 sixes. Due to this innings of Raman Lamba, North Zone won the Duleep Trophy 1986 season under the captaincy of Madan Lal.

Raman Lamba has also played many matches for Team India

Raman Lamba's domestic cricket statistics were excellent but while playing at the international level, Raman Lamba could not reflect his performance at the international level.

In 4 matches played in Test cricket, only 102 runs came from his bat, while in 32 matches played in ODI cricket, Raman Lamba scored 783 runs while batting at an average of 27.00. In this format, he played 6 half-centuries and 1 century innings for Team India.

Raman Lamba died on the cricket field

For your information, let us tell you that Raman Lamba died in the year 1998 while fielding on the cricket field. At that time, many Indian players used to go to play in the red ball cricket tournament held in Bangladesh. In a match of that tournament, Raman Lamba was fielding at short leg without any protective equipment.

Due to which, when the batsman played the shot, the ball hit his head and the stylish player Raman Lamba fell unconscious there. After which he was taken to the hospital but by then he had died.