Answers to Fascinating Forty
- All of them were born on April 24
- Jack Hobbs
- 641-run partnership of T. Palton & N. Rippon (For Buffalo River against Whoroughly in Australia in 1913-14)
- Shahid Afridi (7 in ODIs & 2 in Tests)
- Anil Kumble (24 in Tests & 10 in ODIs)
- Dhruv Pandove scored 137 against J&K at Srinagar in the Ranji Trophy match when he was 14 years, 294 days on Oct 28, 1988.
- Kapil Dev
- Chris Lewis
- First and only player to score a century on debut in all three domestic first class competitions—Ranji Trophy, Duleep Trophy and Irani Trophy
- Eden Gardens
- Sharjah
- Umar Gul
- Javed Miandad
- Inzamam-ul-Haq (7 times in ODIs & once in Tests)
- Melbourne Cricket Ground
- Gary Sobers
- Shakib Al Hasan
- Sudhir Kumar Chaudhary (the cricket-crazy fan paints the Indian flag on his body with the words ‘Sachin Tendulkar’ boldly written over. He sends 1,000 litchis to Sachin every year in appreciation of the match tickets that the batting maestro gives him)
- Rudi van Vuuren (Dismissed Sachin in the 2003 ICC World Cup game at Pietermaritzburg on 23 February 2003)
- Ireland’s George Dockrell
- Bhuvaneshwar Kumar
- James Anderson
- He bought the iconic Ferrari presented to Sachin by Michael Schumacher on behalf of Fiat in 2002 when he equalled Sir Don Bradman’s record of 29 Test centuries
- Alan Mullally
- Dhanush
- Andy McKay
- Saba Karim
- Matthew Fleming
- Nehru Stadium, Indore
- Saeed Ajmal (Pakistan)
- Shoaib Malik
- Ireland, Netherlands, Bermuda & U.A.E
- Tim de Leede (Netherlands)
- Chaminda Vaas, Brett Lee and Shaun Pollock (9 times)
- Jacques Kallis and Ross Taylor
- John Traicos (at the age of 45)
- Hyderabad and Kanpur
- James Foster (England)
- Ravindra Pushpakumara (First innings of the Nagpur Test on 26 Nov 1997 & first innings of Mumbai Test on 3 Dec 1997)
- They are the only 7 people Sachin Tendulkar is following on Twitter
