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Former Pakistani captain Shahid Afridi took a hat-trick with his first three balls in the 10 overs-a-side cricket while playing for the Pakhtoons in the T10 League. Afridi dismissed Maratha Arabians' Rilee Rossouw, Dwayne Bravo, and captain Virender Sehwag. The Pakhtoons made 121/4 in their 10 overs, before restricting the Arabians to 96/7 in the 10 overs.

Australian captain Steve Smith beat Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar to become the third quickest player to reach 22 Test hundreds after crossing the milestone in the third Ashes Test against England in Perth on Saturday. Smith, who scored his 22nd ton in his 108th innings, is behind Australian legend Don Bradman (58) and former Indian Test captain Sunil Gavaskar (101).

Former Indian cricketer Virender Sehwag bagged a duck in his maiden appearance in a T10 match after getting out on the first ball off Pakhtoons' Shahid Afridi. Sehwag was also dismissed for a three-ball duck on his T20 debut for county side Leicestershire against Yorkshire on June 16, 2003. Sehwag is captaining Maratha Arabians in the ongoing T10 League.

The Marshs joined Amarnaths as cricket's second father-son trio to have scored tons in Test cricket, after Mitchell, the youngest Marsh, scored his maiden Test ton against England in the Ashes on Saturday. Between them, the Marshs have 10 Test tons, while the Amarnaths - Lala, Surinder, and Mohinder have 13 Test tons amongst them.

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.

Indian opener Shikhar Dhawan hit his 12th ODI ton and became the second-fastest Indian player to score 4,000 ODI runs after crossing the landmark figure in the third ODI against Sri Lanka on Sunday. Dhawan, who lies behind Virat Kohli in the list, is overall the fifth-fastest player to the milestone after reaching it in his 95th ODI innings.

After winning their eighth consecutive bilateral ODI series in the form of a 2-1 win over Sri Lanka, India joined Australia as the team with the second-most number of consecutive bilateral ODI series wins. India's previous longest streak was six wins between November 2007 and June 2009. The longest ever streak is Windies' 14 wins, lasting for eight years.

Indian batsman Rohit Sharma scored exactly 217 runs in three innings in the recently-concluded ODI and Test series against Sri Lanka. Out of his 217 runs in the ODI series, he scored 208* in the second ODI, becoming the only cricketer with three ODI double tons. Sharma was also captaining India for the first time in the ODI series.

England's Alastair Cook equalled Sachin Tendulkar and Jack Hobbs' record of having suffered the most number of losses in an away country in Test cricket. Following England's loss in the third Ashes Test against Australia, Cook registered his 14th Test loss in Australia in 18 Test matches. Sachin lost 14 Tests in Australia out of 20 Tests he played there.

India on Friday achieved their highest-ever T20I total by scoring 260/5 against Sri Lanka at the Holkar Stadium in Indore. On December 8, 2011, India had achieved their highest-ever ODI total by putting up 418/5 against Windies at the same stadium. India's highest-ever Test total of 759/7d had come in December last year at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.

Indian wicketkeeper MS Dhoni was run out on a duck on his One-Day International debut for India while facing Bangladesh on December 23, 2004. The former captain, who is 102 runs short of becoming the fourth Indian cricketer to reach 10,000 runs in ODI cricket, has played in 312 ODIs and 90 Tests for India.

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.

Real Madrid defeated Barcelona 11-1 in an El Clasico encounter in 1943, the largest margin of victory in El Clasico history. Madrid also outrun 95-91 FC Barcelona in the head-to-head results in official competitions. With 24 goals, Barcelona's Lionel Messi is the all-time leading goal-scorer in El Clasico encounters, followed by Madrid's Alfredo Di Stefano (18) and Cristiano Ronaldo (17).

Afghanistan's 19-year-old leg-spinner Rashid Khan won the Man of the Match award while making his debut for Adelaide Strikers in Australia's Big Bash League. Khan, who was the first Afghan player to be auctioned in the BBL Twenty20 competition, captured two for 22 from four overs to help the Adelaide Strikers win by 53 runs.

BCCI's chief selector MSK Prasad has said that wicket-keeper MS Dhoni will not be replaced till the 2019 World Cup because none of the younger keepers match the former Indian captain's level. "There is no comparison and I don't see any wicket-keeper who can even come closer to him in world cricket, leave alone Indian cricket," said Prasad.

Spinner Washington Sundar became the youngest debutant for India in T20Is after appearing in the final T20I against Sri Lanka on Sunday. Sundar, who played his debut match aged 18 years and 80 days, picked up both his maiden T20I and ODI wickets in his second over of his T20I and ODI debut.

Vidarbha's Rajneesh Gurbani became only the second player to register a hat-trick in the final of the Ranji Trophy after scalping the hat-trick on the second day of the final against Delhi on Friday. Gurbani, who ended with figures of 6/59, is second, behind Tamil Nadu's B Kalyanasundaram who achieved the feat against Bombay in the 1972/73 final.

Kavitha Bharanidaran, a Chennai resident, has attempted a new Guinness World Record for performing yoga continuously for over 105 hours. Bharanidaran, who took five-minute breaks after each hour, started doing Yoga continuously from 7 AM on December 23, 2017. The 31-year-old, whose husband is her yoga teacher, broke the previous record of 103 hours of non-stop Yoga.

Pacer Jasprit Bumrah became India's 290th Test player after making his Test debut in the first Test against South Africa on Friday. The 24-year-old, who is the world number three and number four in ODI and T20I cricket respectively, was handed his Test cap by captain Virat Kohli. Bumrah is the seventh Indian to make Test debut in SA.