Matthew Fisher

@Cheeku218 @SabeehaMajid Gibbs mostly opening the batting and playing 47 matches that's a wild stat!

@SabeehaMajid In ICC White ball tournaments, min 20 innings

Does anyone have stats for highest averages in ICC tournaments (all ICC tournaments combined) for South African men batters?

@DeadlineDayLive 1hb

👏 Mikel Arteta at Arsenal: 🔸 Took Arsenal from a joke to one of the most feared teams in the Premier League 🔸 Built one of the best defences in world football 🔸 Turned them into genuine title challengers 🔸 Elevated Saka, Saliba, Gabriel, Rice to elite levels 🔸 Restored stability, identity and belief to a broken club 🔸 Have the team on the verge of winning the Premier League for the first time in over 20 years and made them favourites for the Champions League trophy Respect where it’s due. 🔴⚪️

@bensmithrugby This guy's only focused on the algorithm

The Interference that cost the All Blacks the World Cup. Eben Etzebeth, retreating from an offside position inside his own 22, obstructs an All Blacks’ pass with a 5-on-2 overlap with no defending fullback. Deliberately ran through the passing lane to kill the play. He was penalised. That was all. He saves two-to-four points for the Springboks in a game that finished 12-11. The punishment does not fit the crime: Offside interference like this doesn’t warrant a yellow card, but a one-handed intercept attempt from an onside position does. This is cynical cheating of the highest order. Etzebeth should have been binned right then and there. The All Blacks were robbed of a try scoring opportunity they finish 80% of the time. This play and the knock-down by Etzebeth from the France quarter-final were disguised thievery.

@BradMayorFPL Start 2 of Rodon, Diouf, Xhaka or Sarr? 1 FT

GW9 FPL deadline tips 👇 1. Haaland is the best captaincy option again this week but it’s not a bad week to go different 2. Saka, Semenyo, Salah and Bruno are all good options 3. Keane is a great budget defender now that Branthwaite is out due to his goal threat 4. Wait until next week to buy Mateta 5. Reece James is great for the next 3 weeks but becomes a problem after the next international break 6. Reijnders is fine to keep as an 8th attacker but if you need to play that spot every week then upgrade him this or next week 7. Enzo is the best midfielder to buy this week 8. If you don’t have triple Palace then make sure you’re saving enough transfers to get them next week 9. Sanchez and Pope are the only keepers that I would start over Raya 10. Start Guiu this week if you own him

My HT Bok ratings Ox - 6 Marx - 2 Tdt - 3 Eben - 6 Lood - 6 Psdt - 7 Marco - 5 Siya - 5 GW - 5 Pollard - 7 Moodie - 4 DDA - 6 Kriel - 3 Kolbe - 5 Willie - 2 #NZLvRSA #RugbyChampionship

Loving this Shukri Conrad era so far 🔥boys are having fun out there, long may it continue!! Talented and dynamic squad with good leadership. Guys playing for each other and the badge 🇿🇦 congratulations on the series win #ENGvSA #ProteaFire

Not sure if @ProteasMenCSA are looking for some shirt inspo 🔥

Yet somehow, England's Bazzy consequence of trying to out flat pitch the flat pitchers leads a 2nd (draw)string bowling attack to render this glutonous 5 match series all square (2.5m pls), a Bradman record overtaken, has me puffing my chest that the Proteas are the moral winners

The media simps to Ben Stokes' limps, while Ravi Jadeja outperforms (and out-shit houses) him quietly. Unshaken, unstirred. I never appreciated Kallis as much as I could and should have, I'm sorry. There's no debate. The missing handshakes imo were for Joe Roots innings 🤝💯

This #ENGvIND series has intruded my summer. Its mostly bored me, more so even than the Ashes. Supporting the global bully as a moral underdog against the nation that taxes me, yet was home to my greatest moment as a Protea fan just weeks ago, has been tiring to say the least. 🧵

A few thoughts and a breakdown of Faith Kipyegon's sub-4 minute mile attempt. Let's dive deep. Why'd she fall short? 8 seconds was too much. All the big boosts (shoe tech, bicarb, etc.) had already been used. So the largest boost she'd get would be pacing/drafting. In her official WR, she had pacing to just past halfway. In this event, she'd get it the entire way around. That would give her ~2 seconds. The Nike folks were hoping optimizing pacing with 11 pacers would do more... But it's just not what we've seen in the real world, as I outlined in my pre-race breakdown. In my pre-race breakdown, I basically called it on the nose, that she'd go for it and fade. I thought 4:05 mid, and she faded a touch more than I guessed. But any seasoned coach would have guessed about the same. The mile is a tricky beast to master. The race itself: You could tell by 400m she wasn't going to get close to sub 4. Why? She was 60.2 at 400m. I texted my group chat and said "too slow" and that she wasn't coming close, because it told me...she was pressing to ride that line. And sub 60s was not where that line was going to be. Her splits (roughly from youtube video) 400- 60.2 800- 2:00.7 1200- 3:01.9 Mile- 4:06.4 You could start to see her straining on the 3rd lap to try to stay close...Which is HARD to do. The 3rd lap is the worst. You are far enough out where it's starting to hurt a lot, but not close enough to the finish where you can taste it. So it took a lot of effort to push hard that 3rd lap. And that's partially why you saw the bear jump on her back the last 200 meters. Once that bear gets you, you are attempting a controlled deceleration. Every step you're fighting not to lose more speed/power. And ironically you have to relax and not tense up to do so. It's a hard place to be. That's the mile. It's riding a very tight line of what you can just barely handle and stay smooth at, while not accumulating so much fatigue, and dipping into your reserves so that your body has nothing to give in the last 400-200m. If she even split it and went 61.x every lap, she probably could have run 4:04 high- 4:05 mid today. Which I think tells us good pacing/drafting gives her 2 seconds. Which lines up with everything we know. What will it take for a female to go sub 4? The problem for Kipyegon is that the gap between her 800 and mile just isn't large enough. While she doesn't run many 800s, her best is probably 1:54 high/1:55 low. Even the most endurance based men who go sub 4 are at least 1:53 low. And that is very rare. 1:52 is generally the requirement, and the faster you are the more cushion. The slower your 800, the better your endurance. But that only compensates to a point. The women's 800m WR is 1:53 by someone who was almost certainly doped to the freaking gills. That means we need to somehow have some improvements that get the women's 800 to be faster...with someone who also has world class endurance. So your 400/800 types like an Athing Mu won't do. That's the challenge. It'll eventually get there. But the women's 800 hasn't seen a legit attack on a world record, even with some phenomenol young athletes with supershoes and bicarbonate. That's the hurdle. So what? Kudos to Kipyegon for going for it. That's hard... It's an impressive feat to see someone just lay it on the line. What we learned is that we're still a ways off. And we likely need some more training progress and a new breakthrough (shoe tech, bicarb or nutrition advancement, etc.) to get there. Pacing/Drafting helps. But it's on the level we've seen in normal races (a few seconds), not the magnitude that was hoped for or hypothesized before. It's interesting that Nike couldn't come up with a further jump in breakthrough shoe tech or optimized it individually to Kipyegon. I think part of the reason is we know some people respond better to the new super shoes...but we have no idea why. Researchers haven't tied it to any biomechanical marker. The clothing junk was marketing nonsense. And if I'm honest, the broadcast was cringe. More infomercial than serious breakdown of an attempt. Would have loved more depth and analysis versus the fluff we got. I understand why: It's one big Nike commercial. They need the return. But the gravitas of an effort like this from Kipyegon deserves serious coverage. Women will eventually get there. That's the nature of sport. It gets better. I do hope though that we see the first women get under 4 in a normal competition. So that there are no what ifs, caveats, or asterisks. It's just the barrier breaker being immortalized like Bannister. There you go. Kudos to Kipyegon on the effort.

Two legends discussing the WTC Champions 2025 🏆 current and future hall of famer 😍🔥 epic to see @gradecricketer in the flesh too 👌🏼

The moment it happened - well done @ProteasMenCSA so proud!! Pandemonium at Lords 🔥

Never in doubt! 🥹🔥🏏🏆🇿🇦 #ProteaFire #WTC2O25Final

Bedingham needs to rekindle his old county form, otherwise the prudent option of de Zorzi at 3, Mulder at 6/7 might look better in hindsight. Patterson for reliability. Ngidi and Bosch arguably have higher upside, but Aussie targets. KG & Jansen are the strike bowlers anyway.

Predicted lineup for @ProteasMenCSA #WTCFinal 1. Markram 2. Rickleton 3. Mulder 4. Bavuma 5. Stubbs 6. Bedingham 7. Verreyne 8. Jansen 9. Rabada 10. Maharaj 11. Patterson

@bourgelouss @DeadlineDayLive + Doue 50 = 230

@DeadlineDayLive Dembele 50M€ Joao Neves 60M€ Kvara 70M€ Total : 180M€ 🙂

🚨 The difference. 🤯

All this talk over Hendrikse when the ref missed two scrum penalty tries, a knock on advantage kicked away, let alone not sending a munster front rower to the bin. Should never have gone to pens. #SHAvMUN

@djbhashkar @Werries_ Look out for this banner at the WTC Final

@Werries_ Kagiso Radoobie

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 Kagiso Rabada has served his 1 month ban and is available to play the rest of the IPL as well as the WTC Final Rabada failed a doping test, for the use of a recreational drug, on 21 January and was notified about the result on 1 April 2025 So, back to it

Yellows yellows yellows 💛 very diligent performance by the U's vs Sheffield United. Deserved goal in the first half after being in top. Held off well in the second. #oxfshu