to the left is a wounderfull example why a 5.6 zoom is to slow and VR does not help in every situation.

As we can see we have quiete a cluttered background and a bad sepration of the motiv and the fence. At F/2.8 I could have used a shutterspeed of 1/800 instead of 1/400 which would make sure that the ball was sharp instead of blurred by the motion.

Maybe someday I can find a nice used 180 mm F/2.8 or 80-200mm F/2.8 which fits the budget.

So far I going to stick with iso 400 or 800 and try to shoot from an angle where I don't have the problem with the background.