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At the Lords Test this week I will renew an annual ritual. Every year, before the start of play on the first morning, as the crowd swells and the players warm up, I walk to the middle of the pitch and look around.Before the story, consider the stage. Since 1814 people have paid to watch cricket here; they have chosen to spend their time and money to celebrate the pleasure of cricket, to observe but also to engage. A match, a spectacle, a social event: each benefiting from the other two.Last week I sat on Centre Court at Wimbledon watching ten glorious sets of tennis during the mens quarter-finals. First, Roger Federer recovered from two sets down to beat a sparkling Marin Cilic. Then Andy Murray warded off the ebullient Jo-Wilfred Tsonga. During breaks between games, I found myself naturally falling into conversation with my neighbours in the stands. Sport was the social glue that helped us find other common ground. We warmed into the experience collectively, and by the end of the Federer triumph, the sense of ecstatic communality was complete. It was like church without God.The parallel is intended to be serious rather than sacrilegious. Modern sport is really an extension of Renaissance humanism. Sport invites us to visit social spaces, and there we watch and celebrate what human beings can do. Thats why, as I drank in the mood on Centre Court, my mind returned to the most memorable birthday of my life, four years ago this week, when I sat drinking coffee in the piazza of the small Italian town Urbino, doing nothing in particular - a tourist, a stranger and yet totally at home.Allow your sportswriter a brief architectural detour. Urbino was built mostly in the late 15th century as a new urban experiment - more comfortable, efficient and refined than anything that had come before. Urbino was the high point of a new concept of the ideal city. That is also the title of my favourite painting, depicting city life as it ought to be - ordered and elegant but also progressive and practical - that still hangs in Urbinos Ducal Palace today.Sport was at the centre of this new way of life. Renaissance courtiers perfected sprezzatura (the art of excellence allied with apparent effortlessness) while playing palla da maglio - literally hammerball, but from old paintings it seems remarkably close to cricket.Baldassare Castigliones The Book of the Courtier (1528), which is set on four different evenings at the court of Urbino, portrayed sporting aptitude as a central aspect of a life well lived. Sport, by training movement and poise, was bound up with civilised existence, just like conversation and music. Lorenzo de Medici, who took breaks from ruling Florence to play ball in the streets, introduced six balls into his coat of arms to underline the significance of games. The whole mental attitude of the Renaissance was one of play, concluded the Dutch historian Johan Huizinga. Play, we might add, allied to civility. A central departure from the Middle Ages was the beginnings of spectatorship, the enjoyment of watching sport as well as playing sport, the origins of recasting sport as a civic activity, a strand of civilised experience. And that is what I felt on Centre Court, watching Federer and Cilic. Weve built a handsome building as a stage for two protagonists to compete. Their behaviour, as friends and rivals, equalled their play; both were intensely engaged with their performance and yet open to the occasion. They let us in, and the crowd sensed it. For Cilic, this was especially admirable, as nearly everyone was supporting Federer. Instead of bridling at the injustice - for Cilic was equally superb - the Croatian embraced the atmosphere of celebration. He elevated the occasion but accepted its asymmetries.How can the mood be summarised? No one came to watch one player lose or suffer. It was sport without a villain, without hatred, without resentment. Everyone had a favourite but no one denied that virtue and virtuosity lay on both sides of the net. There was nothing tribal about the allegiances.The same description applies equally to the Test match I watched at Lords a year ago between England and New Zealand. Brendon McCullums team established the pattern of the series: bold, attacking cricket played with spirit but not rancour. Alastair Cooks men responded in kind, with expressiveness and openness, a habit they have retained ever since. An enduring Cook century underlined an established talent, a magical Ben Stokes hundred announced a new one. The game ended almost on the buzzer, so even time joined the chorus of cooperation. The crowd? Support was strong, appreciation stronger still.The stuff that surrounds sport - the occasion, its ambience - can seem trivial. It is easy to satirise and mock this as social pretension. But we should remember a wider meaning of sport: the coming together of people with shared interests, in safe places, to watch and celebrate virtuosity, competition and, with luck, courtesy - the story of the ascent of man told in brief.We are so used to it, so privileged in our access to sport, that we risk taking it for granted. Which takes me back to tennis and Italy for a final contrast. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Giorgio Bassanis fine novel set in the 1930s - and later an elegiac film by Vittorio di Sica - uses a tennis court inside a walled garden as a metaphor for lost freedoms in a time when fascism and religious intolerance swept across Italy. Play and sport, cosmopolitanism and free association, were shown to be all too fragile.Our generation shouldnt forget its - as yet - unbroken good fortune, to play and to watch. Terry Steinbach Jersey . 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Just as Montreal was settling into the first full working week of a new year, the Impact announced the appointment of their new head coach.Dominic Cork says England should consider employing James Vince as their one-day captain. Vince has not played for England at senior level but has starred in the county game for Hampshire as a powerful one-day opener, cracking three tons and 13 fifties in his 80 matches. He hasnt got any scars and there arent really that many senior players any more. Dominic Cork on James Vince And Sky Sports pundit Cork feels the 23-year-old would be capable of skippering his national side if current incumbent Eoin Morgan is relieved of his duties. Are England looking at Morgan being captain in four years time or even two years time for the Champions Trophy? Or are they looking to bring in someone completely different?, said Cork, in the wake of Englands abject World Cup exit.The jury is out for me and Id like to see someone who isnt frightened of making different decisions, someone like Vince, who has captained Hampshire and England Lions.Why not throw it to him? He hasnt got any scars and there arent really that many senior players any more, when you consider Ian Bell might not be playing much one-day cricket anymore.Peter Moores, meanwhile, has revealed his desire to stay on as England coach, despite his team failing to beat a Test-playing nation at the World Cup following Mondays reverse to Bangladesh. Peter Moores told Nasser Hussain that hes bitterly disappointed with Englands exit from the World Cup And Cork thinks the former Lancashire chief should be given longer to stamp his imprint on the England team having returned for a second spell in charge in April 2014.I think Moores will still be in control as [ECB Managing Director] Paul Downton has stressed that he thinks theyve got the right man and that it was always going to be a building period to try and get these younger players more experienced, added Cork.You have to stick with somebody and cant just blame the coach when we need to have a complete review of our domestic game and go with an IPL-style setup to gget the most competitive game we can in this country.ddddddddddddCork, who played 32 one-day internationals for England between 1992 and 2002, also had his say on why Englands World Cup campaign turned so sour:BOWLINGWhat are Englands bowlers conceding in the first 10 overs? How many wickets are they taking? People look at averages but that isnt really important its about taking wickets early, bowling yorkers not length and getting the right bowlers on at the right time, so England need to change their mentality.Its difficult to say there is no aggression but when you need to, maybe just up that aggression not verbally but by setting aggressive fields and letting the batsmen know that its going to be a barrage of short balls. That comes from the captain but it comes from the bowler as well. Dominic Cork thinks the England selectors made mistakes in selecting their top six batsmen FLEXIBILITYWe havent had the right batting line-up for a long time now. I am Bell fan but when you look at his stats and see hehas four hundreds in 160 ODIs, its simply not good enough as an opening batsman, so Jos Buttler needs to come up the order, Joe Root needs to come up the order.Its the same with the bowling. Where was James Tredwell? He is someone weve relied on for quite some time but suddenly he cant get a game. England are so rigid when they look at stats and its a load of nonsense. Do you think Aaron Finch and Glen Maxwell think about stats?BATTING AGGRESSIONI see players in domestic cricket hitting the ball out of the park but when they get into the international arena they freeze and are frightened to express themselves. Its not about building a sensible innings with ones and twos, its about getting your front leg out of the way and hitting the ball as hard as you can.You need the balance of having someone who can bat through the innings but you dont need Bell and James Taylor doing the same thing. You need a bit of flair at the top of the order, mixed in with grit and determination, and then people who can come in late on and hit it. Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale Jerseys Wholesale NFL Jerseys Jerseys From China Wholesale NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys Cheap Jerseys Cheap Jerseys ' ' '
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