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England and Tottenham striker Harry Kane on Tuesday netted his 39th Premier League goal this year to break retired forward Alan Shearer's 22-year-old record of 36 goals in the English top flight in a calendar year. Kane, who scored back to back hat-tricks, now has 56 goals for club and country in 2017, taking him ahead of Lionel Messi's 54.

Defender Jitendra Singh, aged 16 years, six months and 13 days, became the youngest goalscorer in I-League history after scoring for Indian Arrows against Shillong Lajong on Tuesday. Singh, who represented India in the 2017 U-17 World Cup, went past winger Baoringdao Bodo, who was earlier the youngest to score, at 17 years, 3 months and 18 days.

Former England captain Alastair Cook, who started his innings in the Melbourne Ashes Test as the ninth highest Test run-scorer, became the sixth highest run-scorer during his unbeaten 244-run knock. Cook, who has now scored 11,956 Test runs, overtook Sri Lanka's Mahela Jayawardene (11,814), Windies' Shivnarine Chanderpaul (11,867) and Brian Lara (11,953). This was Cook's fifth double ton in Tests.

England opener Alastair Cook smashed the highest score by an opener to have carried his bat through an innings, after slamming 244* in England's first innings in the Melbourne Test. Cook overtook New Zealand's Glenn Turner, who set the previous record in 1972 with his 223*. Cook's effort was the 52nd time a player achieved the feat in Test cricket.

Delhi captain Rishabh Pant, aged 20 years and 86 days, became the youngest captain to lead a side in the Ranji final after taking the field against Vidarbha on Friday. Pant overtook the 22-year-old record held by Sachin Tendulkar, who was 21 years and 337 days old on first day of the 1995 Ranji final between Mumbai and Punjab.

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.

Australia captain Steve Smith, who scored 178 runs in total in the Melbourne Test against England, has become the highest run-getter in Tests in 2017. Smith scored 1,305 runs this year, overtaking India's Cheteshwar Pujara, who hit 1,140 runs in 11 matches in 2017. This is the fourth consecutive time Smith has scored over 1,000 runs in a calendar year.

The year 2017 saw India captain Virat Kohli become the fastest to score 15,000 and 16,000 runs in international cricket. Kohli also took his ODI hundreds tally to 32, the second-most hundreds by a batsman in ODI cricket. Further, he overtook Sachin Tendulkar to record the most number of ODI hundreds in chases.

Australia captain Steve Smith has become the first Test batsman to score 1,000-plus runs and average over 70 in a calendar year for the fourth successive time. Smith, who scored 1,079 runs at 71.93 last year, ended 2017 with 1,305 runs at 76.76. In 2014, Smith amassed 1,146 runs at 81.85 while he hit 1,474 runs at 73.70 in 2015.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger managed his 811th Premier League match against West Brom on Sunday, setting the record for most Premier League games managed by a single manager. Wenger overtook former Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson's record of having taken charge of 810 Premier League games. Out of the 811 games, Wenger has won 468 and lost 145.

With a combined win percentage of 64.44 across all formats, the Indian cricket team is the most successful international side since January 1, 2015. In the three years, India played 135 international matches, winning 87 and losing 36. With a win percentage of 58.47, New Zealand comes second on the list, having won 69 matches from 118 matches.

New Zealand opener Colin Munro became the first cricketer to hit three centuries in T20I cricket after smashing a 47-ball ton against Windies on Wednesday. Munro scored 104 runs off 53 balls to help New Zealand post their highest-ever T20I total of 243/5. The ton was the fastest by a New Zealand cricketer in T20Is.

Pakistan's Kamran Akmal scored 200(148) in a 50-over match to help his side WAPDA chase down Habib Bank Limited's 314 on Wednesday. Akmal's knock was the second instance of a player slamming a double ton while chasing in a List A match. The 35-year-old smashed 27 fours in his innings, the most by a Pakistani in a List A innings.

Cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar was the first batsman in cricket history to be given out by a third umpire. Sachin was adjudged run-out by TV umpire Karl Liebenberg in the first Test during India's tour of South Africa in 1992. Jonty Rhodes threw the ball towards the stumps as Sachin attempted a single but was sent back by Ravi Shastri.

Out of all the Test-playing nations where Test cricket has been hosted, South Africa and Australia are the two nations where India have never won a Test series. India have played six Test series in South Africa, losing five and drawing one. India have managed to win just two of the 17 Tests they have played in the African nation.

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.

Australia captain Steve Smith reached 6,000 runs in Test cricket in his 111th innings against England on Friday, becoming the 15th Australian and overall joint second-fastest to reach the landmark. Smith equalled the record of cricket legend Sir Garfield Sobers. Only Sir Donald Bradman has scored 6,000 runs in fewer innings (68) than Smith and Sobers.

Brisbane Heat's Chris Lynn became the first cricketer in Big Bash League to slam 100 sixes, achieving the feat against Perth Scorchers on Friday. With 58 sixes, Aaron Finch has hit the second highest number of sixes in the league. Gayle, the first player to hit 100 sixes in IPL, CPL, T20Is, and BPL, has hit 51 BBL sixes.