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South African spinner Dane van Niekerk picked up an all-bowled hat-trick while playing for the Sydney Sixers against Hobart Hurricanes in Australia's Women's Big Bash League on Sunday. Van Niekerk's hat-trick was the first-ever hat-trick registered in the Women's Big Bash League. Van Niekerk ended the innings with figures of 4-20 off four overs.

Aaron Dunn, an ice hockey fan from Canada, won a car after scoring the puck from the half-line through a small cut-out placed in front of the goal. Dunn's first two attempts at landing the shot failed before he converted the final shot. The car was given in a contest held during the match's second intermission.

A basketball fan who attended Thursday's NBA match between the Atlanta Hawks and the Detroit Pistons won $10,000 (₹6.4 lakh) after making a shot from the center of the court in his first attempt. The Hawks fan was randomly selected from the crowd as part of the fans' entertainment program during a break. The Pistons defeated the Hawks 105-91.

NBA star LeBron James wore one black and one white shoe with the word "equality" in capital gold letters on the back of each shoe during an NBA game. "This is a beautiful country and we're never going to let one person dictate how beautiful and how powerful we are," LeBron later said about US President Donald Trump.

Australian cricket captain Steve Smith played a few rounds of tennis with former world number three and Wimbledon 2016 finalist Canada's Milos Raonic ahead of Australian Open, 2018's first Grand Slam of the season. Smith, who gifted Raonic a signed bat later, scored a double hundred against England in the third Ashes Test to help his side retain the Ashes.

India's stand-in captain Rohit Sharma made a wicket-keeping gesture after being dismissed in the second T20I against Sri Lanka to signal to the dressing room to send keeper MS Dhoni to bat at number three. Earlier, Indian coach Ravi Shastri was seen gesturing to Rohit from the dressing room asking who to send out to bat next.

Australian pacer Andrew Tye became only the second bowler after Indian spinner Amit Mishra to pick up three T20 hat-tricks after picking up his third in the Big Bash League on Saturday. Tye, who had picked up a hat-trick in the Big Bash in the 2016-17 season, also picked up a hat-trick on his IPL debut for the Gujarat Lions.

During an El Clásico match in 2002, Barcelona fans threw a severed pig's head at Real Madrid's Luis Figo while he was taking a corner at Camp Nou. Figo had left Barcelona for Real in 2000 for a then world record transfer. Recalling the incident, Figo said he was the only player who had 100,000 people together just against him.

The Indian cricket team celebrated Christmas Eve wearing Santa Claus hats after finishing 2017 with their 37th victory in international cricket, the second most in a calendar year behind Australia's 38 international wins in 2003. Team members, including MS Dhoni, later posed and took pictures with the trophy and with each other wearing the Santa Claus hats.

Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik has hit six sixes in an over in a T10 charity cricket match involving the Shahid Afridi Foundation in Pakistan. Malik slammed six sixes in Babar Azam's over, who later responded with a 26-ball century. Malik was playing for the Shahid Afridi Foundation Red team, while Azam was part of the Shahid Afridi Foundation Green team.

Australian opening batsman David Warner was dismissed on 99, only to score a century off the next ball after the dismissal was found to be off a no-ball, resulting due to the bowler's overstepping. Warner was caught trying to pull debutant Tom Curran's ball on the first day of the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne on Tuesday.

Arunima Sinha, a former national-level volleyball player and the first female amputee to scale Mount Everest, claimed that her disability was mocked at the Mahakal Temple in Ujjain. "I felt greater pain in visiting Mahakal temple (at Ujjain) than scaling the Everest," part of Arunima's tweet read. Arunima is reportedly yet to file a complaint about the matter.

A spectator managed to catch a six in the stands without using his hands during the Big Bash League match between Sydney Sixers and Adelaide Strikers on Thursday. The fan was standing near the boundary when the ball hit by Sydney Sixers' Steve O'Keefe got stuck in between his wrists during the 16th over of the team's chase.

Twenty-three-time Grand Slam winner Serena Williams lost in her first match after giving birth to her first child in September. Williams was beaten by French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko in an exhibition match in Abu Dhabi. "I don't know if I'm totally ready yet or not. When I come back, I definitely want to be competing for championships," Serena said.

A Scottish Championship between St Mirren and Dundee United witnessed a snowball fight between the opposing fans. Earlier, the fans had been warned that the day's game may be postponed due to the snowy weather conditions. At one point, a few snowballs were aimed at the media box, which housed St Mirren's former manager and a former player.

Virat Kohli and Shikhar Dhawan did an impromptu 'bhangra' dance on the streets of Cape Town, South Africa, on the New Year's Eve. They danced on the music being played by local musicians. Notably, Dhawan was recently spotted limping his way into the team hotel with strapped ankle, prompting reports that he has been dropped for the first Test.

Bangladeshi cricketer Sabbir Rahman was fined over ₹15 lakh (20 lakh Bangladeshi Taka) and has been handed a six-month suspension after he was found guilty of assaulting a young boy during a first-class match. Rahman, whose national contract was revoked by the Bangladesh Cricket Board, also behaved "aggressively" towards match referee when he was called for the incident's investigation.

Delhi's Nisar Ahmed, the son of a rickshaw puller and a housemaid, is set to train at the Racers Track Club in Jamaica, the academy where eight-time Olympic gold medalist sprinter Usain Bolt trained. The 15-year-old is among 14 young athletes chosen to undergo a month's training at the club known for training some of the world's best sprinters.

Former heavyweight boxing world champion Mike Tyson is reportedly opening up his own cannabis resort. This comes after California's recent legislation for recreational marijuana. Tyson has bought a 40-acre property in California City, with 20 acres dedicated to marijuana cultivation, as per reports. Tyson also plans to open Tyson Cultivation School to instruct farmers on how to grow cannabis.

Skier Valentin Delluc was filmed traversing peaks using a glowing parachute wing and a pair of skis under the moonlight near the foot of Mont Blanc. Delluc spent seven months training for the nighttime mission, which took place earlier in 2017. Delluc managed to travel 1,500 vertical meters in 4 minutes and 20 seconds during the run.