Duleep Trophy final match was played at Jamshedpur from 25th to 29th January, 1991 in between West Zone and North Zone. Raman Lamba was one of the two opening Batsmen. He scored 180 runs if first innings. North Zone scored a mammoth total of 729 runs for 9 wickets declared. The opposite team was very much upset and disturbed on the said score. The result was thus a forgone conclusion. Lamba again opened the 2nd innings for North Zone. He had scored 26 runs in the said innings when he was begun to be pressurised with short pitch deliveries. The viciousness of the short pitch deliveries was much more this time than in the first innings. The deliberate efforts were made to cause injuries to him. West Zone this time instead of playing cricket started using the cricket ball as a missile to hit Lamba. Kiran More who was officiating as the Captain of the opposite team in the absence of Ravi Shastri shouted at Rashid Patel in Gujrati and from the manner in which the deliveries followed thereafter it was clear that the sole aim of the Bowler was hit the head of the Lamba. Rashid Patel who was bowling also responded to Kiran More in Gujrati. It was unintelligible to Lamba as he did not understand Gujrati. However, he came to know later on that Rashid Patel informed his skipper Kiran More that the ball did not travel fast enough, whereupon Kiran