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| Tennis Australia has backed Nick Kyrgios in the ongoing issue of his inclusion in the Olympic team. Kyrgios and Bernard Tomic were recently put on notice by Australian chef de mission Kitty Chiller for poor behaviour.That came after Tomic drew heavy criticism following his exit from the Madrid Open when, on match point against Fabio Fognini, he held the racquet by the strings and did not offer a return to the Italians serve. Kyrgios has himself been heavily criticised for behaviour and was given a suspended ban and fine for making inappropriate comments about Stan Wawrinkas girlfriend in 2014. Chef de Mission of the Australian Olympic Team Kitty Chiller has warned Tomic and Kyrgios However, Tennis Australia president Steve Healy believes Kyrgios has been unfairly linked to Tomic and should be recognised for his improved behaviour.Healy said in a statement: Since the disciplinary action taken against Nick last year, hes made a concerted effort to improve his performance and behaviour, and full credit to him.Its unfortunate that hes been included unfairly in recent discussions on player behaviour that have not involved him. Kyrgios and Bernard Tomic have courted controversy with their behaviour His performances this year have been markedly improved and its obvious hes showing more maturity. Only world No 1 Novak Djokovic has beaten more top-10 players than Nick this year.Nick deserves the opportunity to concentrate on his tennis without any additional distractions.Tennis Australia has until late June to nominate its team for Rio, and after world No 22 Tomics announcement that he will be unable to represent Australia, world No 21 Kyrgios would be the countrys highest-ranked player available for the Games. Also See: Murray into Rome semis Tomic opts out of Rio Olympics San Francisco 49ers Fred Warner Jersey . -- The proud fathers huddled near the Dallas Stars dressing room, smiling, laughing and telling stories while wearing replica green sweaters of their sons team. San Francisco 49ers Tarvarius Moore Jersey . Thats about all he can do right now, so hes trying not to think about when he might be able to play again for the Los Angeles Lakers. http://www.cheap49ersjerseys.us/san-francisco-49ers-jullian-taylor-jersey/ . LOUIS -- Rookie Tavon Austin has missed another day of practice, lessening the odds hell be ready for the St. San Francisco 49ers Richie James Jersey . -- Peyton Manning will have all of his wide receivers available for the first time in a month when the Denver Broncos begin their playoff run Jan. San Francisco 49ers Marcell Harris Jersey . The injury bothered Bledsoe in the Suns victory over the Clippers on Monday and he sat out the teams home loss to Memphis on Thursday night. In the week that Theresa May became the oldest person to enter 10 Downing Street as Prime Minister since James Callaghan in 1976, the remarkable Misbah-ul-Haq became the oldest person to play in a Test match in England since Brian Close, oddly enough, in 1976.Close, who was 46 when he was asked to pad up against Michael Holding, Andy Roberts and Wayne Daniel, had, 27 years earlier, become Englands youngest ever Test player. Misbahs achievement, at 42 , was even more extraordinary. The first Test against England at Lords was the first he had ever played in that country. Indeed of his young and exciting team, only four - including the great Younis Khan and Mohammad Amir - had toured England before.It was after their last tour of England in 2010, and the spot- fixing scandal that besmirched their last Test appearance at Lords, that Misbah was brought in, as it were to clean out the Augean stables. He has been outstanding in every respect . It is naturally tempting to compare him with Imran Khan, the only other Pakistan captain capable of bringing disparate and willful talents together to form a conglomerate of something like greatness. But the real comparison is with one of history s outstanding captains, Frank Worrell, who led the West Indies to glory in the early 1960s. Both men had something special, something that fulfilled a need felt by a particular team, full of hugely talented individuals at a particular time. Both were essentially father figures - Imran never really managed that - and had an unchallengeable authority that did not need to be demonstrably seen to be followed.Misbahs century on his first appearance in a Test in England was a lustrous adornment to a special Lords day. Pakistan were not exactly in difficulty when he arrived but they should have been doing better. As so often, he showed the way. He is always an immensely sensible batsman but he is so much more than that. The way Englands change bowlers - on the day at least, Steven Finn and Moeen Ali - were dealt with was as clinical as it was elegant.The Lords Test will be remembered for many things apart from Misbahs century. It was one of those games whose bare result - a Pakistan win by 75 runs - tells very little about the intensity of the contest, particularly on the gripping final day. The performances of Yasir Shah and Chris Woakes were especially telling but if there is an abiding memory, it will be Misbahs celebratory press- ups on reaching his century. It has always been more or less assumed that he is the fittest man in the side - although in the field he is s beginning to show signs of what property lawyers call fair wear and tear. Be that as it may, his achievement was remarkable for a 42-year old.Andrew Miller, speaking on ESPNcricinfo, said it was a throwback to the days of Jack Hobbs.ddddddddddddHobbs famously completed a hundred first- class centuries after his 40th birthday. He was exceptional but not unusual. When he toured Australia for the fifth and last time in 1928-29 under Percy Chapman (aged 28) England won 4-1. Hobbs turned 46 on the tour, Phil Mead 41, Patsy Hendren and Ernest Tyldesley both 40.Even in relatively recent times forty-plus players have featured in England Test sides. Alec Stewart carried on till he was 40, just. Eddie Hemmings was 41 when Kapil Dev hit him for four successive sixes to save the follow-on at Lords in 1990. This was the game in which Graham Gooch made a triple century and another hundred; he too went on till he was well over 40.But for a player not from England to go on for so long is highly unusual. The historical reason for this is the professional structure of the English game. English players, operating in the county system, had careers that could last for decades. It was different in, say, Australia, where in Richie Benauds time even the best could not go on indefinitely. Great players like Alan Davidson and Neil Harvey left the game relatively early: Harvey, the last survivor of Don Bradmans 1948 Invincibles, made four Ashes tours of England but when he retired he was only 33. Bradman himself made four tours of England. He turned forty at the end of that 1948 tour.It was the same elsewhere. Even Worrell was only 38 when he made his third and final tour of England in 1963. Clive Lloyd, a comparable figure in some ways, turned 40 at the end of the triumphant tour of England in 1984. Of course overseas players who played in county cricket, like Lloyd, Viv Richards, Gordon Greenidge, Zaheer Abbas and Courtney Walsh, tended to have longer careers. But none of them, not Sachin Tendulkar or Shivnarine Chanderpaul, the old war horses of the modern era, played a Test in England after turning 40.Bert Sutcliffe, the classy New Zealand left hander, toured England in 1965 at the age of 41. It was not a success . He never really recovered from being hit on the head by a ball from Fred Trueman, himself hardly a stripling at 34.Commendable though Misbahs achievements are, it is difficult to see him as a trend-setter in respect of the age of Test cricketers. Its a different world. Misbah was a special man for a particular occasion, which he rose to in a way that no one could really have anticipated. 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