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{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Raman Lamba
| image = RAMAN LAMBA - OIL PAINTING.jpg
| caption = Oil painting by [[Rajasekharan Parameswaran]]
| country = India
| fullname = Raman Lamba Kushal

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1960|1|2|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Meerut]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], India
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1998|2|23|1960|1|2|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Dhaka]], Bangladesh
| nickname =
| heightft =
| heightinch =
| heightm =
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Right-arm medium
| role = Batsman
| family =
| international = true
| testdebutdate = 17 January
| testdebutyear = 1987
| testdebutagainst = Sri Lanka
| testcap = 177
| lasttestdate = 25 November
| lasttestyear = 1987
| lasttestagainst = West Indies
| odidebutdate = 7 October
| odidebutyear = 1986
| odidebutagainst = Australia
| odicap = 58
| lastodidate = 22 December
| lastodiyear = 1989
| lastodiagainst = Pakistan
| odishirt =
| club1 = [[Delhi cricket team|Delhi]]
| year1 = 1980–1998
| club2 = [[North Zone cricket team|North Zone]]
| year2 = 1980–1991
| club3 = [[Ireland national cricket team|Ireland]]
| year3 = 1990
| club4 = [[Abahani Krira Chakra|Abahani]]
| year4 = 1992–1998
| columns = 3
| column1 = [[Test cricket|Test]]
| matches1 = 4
| runs1 = 102
| bat avg1 = 20.40
| 100s/50s1 = 0/1
| top score1 = 53
| deliveries1 = –
| wickets1 = –
| bowl avg1 = –
| fivefor1 = –
| tenfor1 = –
| best bowling1 = –
| catches/stumpings1 = 5/–
| column2 = [[One Day International|ODI]]
| matches2 = 32
| runs2 = 783
| bat avg2 = 27.00
| 100s/50s2 = 1/6
| top score2 = 102
| deliveries2 = 19
| wickets2 = 1
| bowl avg2 = 20.00
| fivefor2 = 0
| tenfor2 = 0
| best bowling2 = 1/9
| catches/stumpings2 = 10/–
| column3 = [[First-class cricket|FC]]
| matches3 = 121
| runs3 = 8,776
| bat avg3 = 53.86
| 100s/50s3 = 31/27
| top score3 = 320
| deliveries3 = 816
| wickets3 = 6
| bowl avg3 = 70.50
| fivefor3 = 0
| tenfor3 = 0
| best bowling3 = 2/9
| catches/stumpings3 = 60/–
| date = 12 September
| year = 2011
| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1/1857/1857.html CricketArchive
}}
'''Raman Lamba''' ({{audio|Raman_Lamba.ogg|pronunciation}}; 2 January 1960 – 23 February 1998) was an Indian [[cricket]]er. Raman had played in four [[Test cricket|Tests]] and 32 [[One Day International]]s, mainly as a batsman. He was a popular player in [[Bangladesh]]'s [[Dhaka Premier League]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Biswas|first1=Soutik|title=A profitable pitch|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/cricket-crazy-dhaka-lures-international-players-with-lucrative-contracts/1/292777.html|work=[[India Today]]|accessdate=14 October 2016|date=15 February 1994}}</ref> and has also represented [[Ireland cricket team|Ireland]] in unofficial One Day International matches.<ref name="profile">{{cite web |url=http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/30745.html| title=Profile of Raman Lamba |publisher=Cricinfo |accessdate=14 August 2010}}</ref><ref name="obituary">{{cite web |author=Wisden |url=http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/155321.html |title=Obituary of Raman Lamba |publisher=Cricinfo |accessdate=14 August 2010}}</ref> Lamba died after slipping into a coma, as a result of an [[internal haemorrhage]], three days after being hit on the [[temporal bone]] by a [[cricket ball]] while fielding in Bangladesh's league cricket.<ref>{{cite news|title=डेब्यू में इस जांबाज खिलाड़ी ने की थी ऑस्ट्रेलियाई गेंदबाजों की धुनाई, लेकिन सिर पर गेंद लगने से हो गई थी मौत|url=https://khabar.ndtv.com/news/cricket/raman-lamba-was-attacked-on-australian-bowlers-in-debut-1757242|accessdate=6 October 2017|publisher=NDTV Hindi|date=1 October 2017}}</ref>

== Profile ==
Raman Lamba was born on 2 January 1960 in [[Meerut]]. He was a right-handed batsman who was also noted for his fitness. He commenced his [[Ranji Trophy]] career in 1980-81 and continued until his death in the 1997–98 season. He scored 6362 runs at an average of 53.91 in 87 matches, scoring 22 [[century (cricket)|centuries]] including 5 double centuries and his career highest of 312 versus Himachal Pradesh at Delhi in 1994–95, which is not only his personal highest score but also among the highest individual scores for Delhi. In 1994-95 he aggregated 1034 runs in 10 matches at an average of 73.86 with 3 centuries and 4 half-centuries, which was a record number of runs in a Ranji Trophy season. He led Delhi in 8 matches in the season 1994–95, winning 3 and drawing 5. His 320 in the Duleep Trophy for North Zone against West Zone in the final at Bhilai in 1986-87 still remains among the highest individual scores. In first-class cricket, he scored a total of 8776 runs at 53.84 and his 175 innings including 31 centuries and 27 fifties.

Lamba's highest score 320* came in the [[Duleep Trophy]] Final in 1987-88 for North Zone v West Zone. The West might have felt very satisfied with their first innings score of 444, with their captain and Test opener [[Anshuman Gaekwad]] making 216. Their opponents, however, had other ideas and replied with 868 all out. Lamba left Gaekwad in the shade with 320 in 720 minutes which was scored off 471 balls including six 6s and thirty 4s. That season he totalled 1097 runs at 84.38. Seven years later he crossed the triple hundred mark again with 312 for Delhi in a Ranji Trophy match versus Himachal Pradesh at Delhi. The hosts ran up 637-3 [[declare (cricket)|declared]] owing much to a first wicket Indian record wicket 464 between Lamba and [[Ravi Sehgal]], who made 216. Lamba's 312 came off 392 balls with two 6s and twenty five 4s and took 567 minutes. These innings and similar knocks, such as his 617 balls 250 for Delhi v Punjab in 1996/97 gained him a somewhat mixed reputation.<ref>{{cite web|title=Famous Irish cricketers: Raman Lamba |url=http://www.cricketeurope4.net/DATABASE/ARTICLES4/articles/000026/002607-p.shtml |publisher=cricketeurope4.net |accessdate=20 September 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111031142717/http://www.cricketeurope4.net/DATABASE/ARTICLES4/articles/000026/002607-p.shtml |archivedate=31 October 2011 }}</ref><ref name=RLamba>{{cite journal |title=Special Profile on Raman Lamba: Shocking end of a brave cricketer |journal=[[Indian Cricket (annual)|Indian Cricket]] |date=December 1998 }}</ref>

== International cricket ==

===One-day cricket===
Lamba appeared for India as a one-day player in the [[Australasia Cup#First edition 1986|1986 Australasia Cup]] final, when he also took a good catch under pressure to dismiss [[Abdul Qadir (cricketer)|Abdul Qadir]] off [[Kapil Dev]], where he played as substitute fielder.<ref>{{cite web |title=Raman Lamba Takes a Good Catch vs Pak at Sharjah in Australasia Cup 1986 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o-hUnw0d8M |publisher=[[YouTube]] |accessdate=25 February 2019}}{{cbignore}}{{Dead Youtube links|date=February 2022}}</ref> He had a great opening in One day cricket as he scored 64 in his first match and 102 in his sixth match as he won the man of the series against Australia for scoring 278 runs at an average of 55.60 per innings with a century and 2 fifties. His scoring pattern in 6 innings were 64, 1, 20*, 74, 17 and 102.<ref>{{cite web |title=Raman Lamba shows his mettle against Australia at Ferozshah Kotla in Delhi |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/eyecatchers/story/19861031-raman-lamba-shows-his-mettle-against-australia-at-ferozshah-kotla-in-delhi-801360-1986-10-31 |work=[[India Today]]|accessdate=2 March 2019 |date=31 October 1986}}</ref> Lamba and [[Krishnamachari Srikkanth]] were India's openers for the Jawaharlal Nehru Centenary Cup in 1989. Twice they had 100 runs opening partnership, against Australia and Pakistan. Their approach was similar, as both were stroke players. Their aggressive batting approach as openers was later adopted by opening pair [[Sanath Jayasuriya]] and [[Romesh Kaluwitharana]] in 1996 World Cup.<ref name=RLamba/>

==Personal life==
In 1987 Raman Lamba met his future wife, Irishwoman Kim Michelle Crothers and they were engaged for 3 years before getting married on 7, September 1990. Lamba started playing as an overseas professional cricketer in Ireland with [[Ulster]] from 1990. Raman and Kim have two children Jasmyn and Kamran. Kim settled down with both children in [[Portugal]]<ref name="Kim Lamba">{{cite web |url=http://www.criclife.com/lists/chronicles/raman-lamba-10-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-man-who-was-a-dasher-on-and-off-the-field-7130 |title=Raman Lamba: 10 things you need to know |author= Suvajit Mustafi |publisher=criclife|accessdate=2015-11-21|date=2015-01-02}}</ref> after Raman's demise.

== Death ==
Lamba died on 23 February 1998<ref name="obituary"/> in the Post Graduate Hospital in Dhaka in Bangladesh<ref name="article1">{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/472228.html|title=The tragic death of Raman Lamba|author=Williamson, Martin|work=[[Cricinfo Magazine]] |date=14 August 2010|accessdate=14 August 2010}}</ref> after he was hit on the [[Temple (anatomy)|temple]] by a cricket ball hit by [[Mehrab Hossain (cricketer, born 1978)|Mehrab Hossain]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Das|first1=N Jagannath|title=The Day That Still Haunts Mehrab|url=http://www.newindianexpress.com/sport/cricket/2014/mar/04/The-Day-That-Still-Haunts-Mehrab-582040.html|publisher=[[The New Indian Express]]|accessdate=14 October 2016|date=4 March 2014}}</ref> off left-arm spinner [[Saifullah Khan]] while fielding at forward short leg. It is said that Lamba was asked to wear a helmet, but he thought it was unnecessary because only three balls of the over were remaining when he was asked to move to that position. He was known by his teammates not to use a helmet while fielding close in. Lamba was playing for Dhaka's leading club, [[Abahani Limited cricket team|Abahani Krira Chakra]], in the final of the Premier Division cricket match versus [[Mohammedan Sporting Club (Dhaka)|Mohammedan Sporting Club]] at the Dhaka [[Bangabandhu Stadium]] on 20 February 1998. The shot was so ferocious that the ball deflected from his head and flew into wicketkeeper [[Khaled Mashud]]'s gloves. [[Aminul Islam (cricketer, born 1968)|Mohammad Aminul Islam]], the former Bangladesh captain, recalled "I was the new man in and asked Raman if he was okay. He said, 'Bulli (Islam's nickname is Bulbul) main to mar gaya' (I am dead, Bulli)".<ref name="Monga">{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/609788.html|title=Remembering Raman Lamba|author=Monga, Sidharth|publisher=ESPN Cricinfo|accessdate=14 August 2010}}</ref> Although the injury did not appear to be particularly serious, Lamba suffered an internal [[haemorrhage]] and slipped into a coma. Although a [[Neurosurgery|neurosurgeon]] was flown in from Delhi, all efforts were in vain. After three days, his ventilator was removed and Lamba was declared dead.

There were tributes from all over the world when Lamba died. His wife, Kim, paid him a moving tribute when she put the cap of his local team, Sonnet Club, on Lamba.<ref name=RLamba/>

==Trivia==
* On his first tour abroad to England in 1986, he was involved in a rare incident when 12 fielders were on the field for one full over from [[Ravi Shastri]] in the second Test against England at Leeds, when as a substitute for [[Krishnamachari Srikkanth|K. Srikkanth]], he remained on the field even though Srikkanth had already arrived on the field quietly, without requesting Raman Lamba to go back to the pavilion. The umpires were also unaware of Srikkanth's return to the field throughout the 6-ball over in which nothing untoward took place on the field.<ref name=RLamba/><ref name="Kim Lamba"/>
* Just as Lamba could not play a Test on the tour of England in 1986, he missed a test on his next tour of Pakistan in 1989–90 due to a finger injury in the morning of the first test.<ref name=RLamba/>
* Lamba was involved in one more controversial incident. He had a wordy clash with West Zone cricketer [[Rashid Patel]] on the field of play during a [[Duleep Trophy]] match at Jamshedpur in 1990–91. The [[Board of Control for Cricket in India]] (BCCI) on 25 February 1991 banned Lamba till 31 December 1991 and Patel till 31 March 1992 from playing in any first-class cricket match as a punishment.<ref>{{Citation|author-link=Express News Service|title=Ban on Lamba, Patel|newspaper=[[The Indian Express]]|date=1991-02-25|accessdate=2016-10-03|page=16|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=P9oYG7HA76QC&dat=19910222&printsec=frontpage}}</ref><ref name=RLamba/><ref name="Kim Lamba"/><ref>{{cite web|last1=Roy|first1=Ayan|title=Cricket's fight club: Five infamous on-field spats|url=http://www.mid-day.com/articles/crickets-fight-club-five-infamous-on-field-spats/16553198|publisher=Mid Day|accessdate=5 November 2016|date=23 September 2015}}</ref>
* 2019 [[Telugu (language)|Telugu]] film'' [[Jersey (2019 film)|Jersey]]'' and its 2022 [[Hindi (language)|Hindi]] remake film of the [[Jersey (2022 film)|same name]] is loosely based on his life.

== See also ==
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* [[List of unusual deaths]]

* [[List of fatal accidents in cricket]]

== References ==
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