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ATLANTA -- Having to make an extra trip to play a midseason game at a neutral site would normally by cause for grumbling.Thats not the case, however, with the historic game Sunday night at Fort Bragg, N.C., between the Atlanta Braves and Miami Marlins.Everybody looking at it as an honor, Braves interim manager Brian Snitker said. It will be an honor to go play for them, give them a little something back. See those guys. Have lunch with them.The game, announced in March, will be the first major professional sporting event at an active United States military base, and a 12,500-seat temporary stadium was constructed for the event.All tickets will go to military personal and their dependents. Others will have to watch on ESPN at 8:05 p.m. ET.It wont be a big stadium but it will be a big game, on ESPN and everything, Braves starter Matt Wisler said. It should be a pretty exciting night.The teams were to stay Saturday night in Fayetteville, N.C., after flying in from Atlanta, then spend a full day on the massive Army base Sunday before heading out for their next games.The Braves (28-53) play in Philadelphia on July 4, while the Marlins (42-39) will head on to New York to play the Mets.Atlanta has won two of the first three games in the series against Miami and is 8-3 this year against the Marlins.Miami reliever Mike Dunn was part of a group of major leaguers who spent a few days embedded with the troops at Fort Bragg in 2014.Ive always appreciated our service men and women, but going there and spending time with them one-on-one really gave me a different outlook on it, Dunn said.To visit there was unforgettable, and I think this game will be unforgettable, too.Said Marlins manager Don Mattingly: It really is an honor to be able to go. Im excited about it. From our standpoint, it should be an appreciation.It seems like not only baseball but all sports and the nation itself have been a lot better lately about honoring our military and respecting what they do for us.It is the finale of a four-game series between the Braves and Marlins that began Thursday at Turner Field, and figures to be the most memorable of the 19 the teams play this season.These military guys that were going to be around are the real heroes who give us an opportunity to do what we do every day, Braves catcher A.J. Pierzynski said.Left-hander Adam Conley (4-5, 3.90 ERA) will start for the Marlins and try to stay unbeaten against Braves. He is 1-0 with a 1.46 ERA in two starts this year and 2-0 with a 3.54 ERA in four career outings.Right-hander Wisler (3-7, 4.14 ERA) has pitched only twice against the Marlins, getting a save in his only relief appearance this season.The attention wont be on the starting pitchers, though. 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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, soome of Englands younger Lions basked in the sunshine of a 50-over tri-series against Sri Lanka and Pakistan.dddddddddddd 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. ' ' '