Ashwin, Pujara, and Dhawan extend birthday wishes to Zaheer Khan as he turns 41!

New Delhi: India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, batsman Cheteshwar Pujara, and Shikhar Dhawan extended their wishes to former left-arm pacer Zaheer Khan who turned 41 today.

Zaheer played 92 Test matches for India, in which he scalped 311 wickets with the best figure of 7/87.

On Sunday, Ashwin took the wicket of Thenuis de Bruyn on the final day of the first Test against South Africa and became the joint-fastest to 350 Test wickets along with Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan.

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Pujara who scored 87 runs in the inaugural Test of the series tweeted.

Former cricketers VVS Laxman and Harbhajan Singh also took to Twitter to shower their wishes to Zaheer.

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In the limited-overs format, Zaheer bagged 282 wickets in 200 ODI matches while in 17 T20Is he had clinched 17 wickets.

Zaheer was part of India's fifty over World Cup-winning squad in 2011. He bade adieu to international and first-class cricket on October 15, 2015. (ANI)

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