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As I skirted The Oval two Fridays back, a couple of hours before Surrey faced Kent in what turned out to be both teams final game in this years T20 Blast competition, the PA was playing Massive Attacks anthem to paranoia, Angel, its wall of guitars powering towards a sky beginning to bank with dark clouds, miles long. Behind the gasometers, the new cityscape loomed.By the time Jason Roy and Aaron Finch walked out to open the Surrey innings, the aircraft-warning lights on the tallest buildings were blinking red against the purple. Finch was the world No. 1-ranked T20 batsman but he struggled to find his timing. Roy didnt, though. The ball started to crack from his bat, and didnt stop. He hit thunderously, and as I watched from the third tier of the Bedser Stand, his power took on a different dimension, the speed of the ball through the air, along the ground and past the fielders newly apparent.Finch finally got himself going with a giant six into the second tier of the pavilion. Dominance subtly challenged, Roy followed him, and then hit an even bigger one over the longest boundary at deep midwicket and into the crowd. It was sci-fi batting in a spectacular setting, the old gasometers dark and hulking, and just as WG would have seen them when he made his famous 224 not out here in 1866, a few days after his 18th birthday, and in the distance the gleaming Shard, which he couldnt have imagined even in his grand old age. It was ominous for Kent, whose bowlers were taken apart. Roy finished with 120 from 62 deliveries, Finch 79 from 51.A few years ago I interviewed a golf coach called Denis Pugh. I asked him about the young players hed seen, and who would be the best.A boy called Rory McIlroy, he said, his voice becoming reverential. The ball makes a completely different sound when he hits it…Roy has something of that same quality. His progress may have been jagged - and in the next innings I saw him play, he was out first ball, at Lords - but the top end of his talent reaches Shard-like heights. He strikes with just the little extra that Pugh heard as McIlroy compressed his golf ball against the club face.As Roy laid waste to The Oval, some of Englands younger Lions basked in the sunshine of a 50-over tri-series against Sri Lanka and Pakistan. In four games Ben Duckett made an unbeaten 220 not out and a 163 not out, Sam Billings a 175 and Daniel Bell-Drummond a 171 not out (Dawid Malan, of some vintage at 28, also made a 185 not out). Andy Flower, a man who knew cricket before this madness took hold, must have understood, as he watched them that the T20 generation was suddenly, thrillingly, here. Players who could not remember cricket without the format - Duckett was yet to turn nine during that first season of 2003 - are now professionals, and the way that they play the game is deeply imbued with that background. It is a challenge not just to them, but also to us.I watched the Surrey and Kent players warm up at The Oval. In the nets, coaches used dog-throwers and wore helmets. Every ball was hammered like a mallet on a nail. Bats were a blur. The quality of strike from Billings and Bell-Drummond and Finch was stunning seen from up close, and it contextualised further Roys innings (they hit it well; he hit it better). This generation is massing beneath Englands flowering white-ball teams and its less-certain Test batting side. In these transitory years of technique and method, we dont seem quite sure if, or how, some of these sublime talents can take their game across all formats.But in a summer when Test matches outside of London have not sold out (as I write this, there are banks of empty seats at Edgbaston for the final day of the third Test, with all results possible), Roy is the kind of player who will fill grounds, as is Jos Buttler, and Im sure in future Duckett, Bell-Drummond and Billings will too.It may be playing devils advocate to say so, but we may have to lessen our regard for conventional technique and conventional ways of failing if were to fully open the future to a generation that can keep the long-form game alive in ways that make sense to them and their children.That future looms over us now, here and ready.Vapormax 2019 Blanche . 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Vapormax Plus Femme Pas Cher . -- Timbers coach Caleb Porter didnt stray from his business-like approach to the season even after Portland downed the two-time defending league champion Los Angeles Galaxy to gain crucial playoff position.A group of Aston Villa supporters are planning a walkout in the 74th minute of their next three home games in protest at how the club is being run.The idea was conceived by Villa supporter Mark Bricknell who has chosen the 74th minute of the game because the club - one of the founder members of the Football League - was founded in 1874.He told Sky Sports News HQ: I think the support now is going to be down to the hardcore, those that go rain or shine. There are thousands that have turned their back on the club already. We dont want to ask supporters to stay away. That would be as alien to ask supporters to stay away as it would be not to attend a friends wedding or funeral so were not going to ask that.Were going to ask them to give up 16 minutes at the end of the game to show our disdain really at a lack of direction from the club and a lack of vision over the last six years and what appears to be a lack of vision going forward. Liverpool supporters walked out of Anfield to protest against a planned rise in ticket prices Bricknell says the idea was inspired by the recent actions of Liverpool supporters, who left Anfield in their droves in the 77th minute of their game at home to Sunderland in protest at ticket prices.ddddddddddddI think it initially stemmed from the walkout Liverpool fans did and the positive impact that had on that club, he said.This is a culmination. Its not about recent results. Its not about the 6-0 defeat to Liverpool [in Villas last game]. Its not a knee jerk reaction to that.This is the culmination of six years of decline and the club have been unable to halt what the fans have been able to see coming for a long time.Villa are bottom of the Premier League and eight points adrift of safety ahead of this weekends visit to Stoke.Also See:Lescott concernsMerse fears worstVilla videoGet a ￡10 free bet! ' ' '