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In IPL 2011 (Season 4), the first delivery was bowled by Iqbal Abdullah of Mumbai Indians against Chennai Super Kings in the opening match. The tournament began on April 8, 2011. Note that 'Jack Kallis' is likely a typo for Jacques Kallis. Yusuf Pathan and Laxmi Ratan Shukla were also players in that season but did not bowl the first ball.

Aravind Adiga's debut novel "The White Tiger" won the 2008 Man Booker Prize. Jhumpa Lahiri is known for short story collections like "Interpreter of Maladies" and novels like "The Namesake", while Arundhati Roy wrote "The God of Small Things" (1997 Booker winner). Amitav Ghosh is famous for "The Shadow Lines" and the Ibis Trilogy.

Arundhati Roy (note spelling) won the 1997 Booker Prize for "The God of Small Things", becoming the first Indian woman to win this award. Jhumpa Lahiri won the Pulitzer in 2000, Anita Desai has been shortlisted multiple times but never won, and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is known for "The Mistress of Spices".

Kiran Desai (Anita Desai's daughter) won the 2006 Booker Prize for "The Inheritance of Loss". Jhumpa Lahiri is a Pulitzer winner, not Booker. Arundhati Roy won in 1997, and Anita Desai has been shortlisted three times but never won.

J.M. Coetzee, the South African novelist, won the 1999 Booker Prize for "Disgrace". Anita Desai's "Fasting, Feasting" was indeed shortlisted that year but lost to Coetzee, who would later win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003.

Amitav Ghosh was shortlisted for the 2008 Booker Prize for "Sea of Poppies" (the first book of the Ibis Trilogy), which Aravind Adiga won for "The White Tiger". Salman Rushdie has won the Booker (1981 for "Midnight's Children") but wasn't shortlisted in 2008. Kiran Desai won in 2006.

Jhumpa Lahiri won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her debut short story collection "Interpreter of Maladies". "The Namesake" (published 2003) is her famous novel but was not a Pulitzer winner. The other options are not her works.

Gobind Behari Lal, a science journalist, became the first Indian to win a Pulitzer Prize in 1939 for journalism. Jhumpa Lahiri won in 2000 for fiction, Geeta Anand won in 2003 for journalism, and Aravind Adiga won the Booker (not Pulitzer) in 2008.

Geeta Anand, an Indian-born journalist working for The Wall Street Journal in the US, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 for explanatory journalism about biosciences. Gita Mehta, Bharati Mukherjee, and Bharti Kirchner are Indian-American authors but not Pulitzer Prize winners.

Chetan Bhagat was included in Time Magazine's list of 100 Most Influential People in 2010, primarily for his impact on Indian English literature and making reading popular among Indian youth with novels like "Five Point Someone" and "2 States". Tushar Raheja, Rahul Saini, and Ravinder Singh are Indian authors but weren't on this list.