USA-Aaron Jones is playing fearless cricket against South Africa
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I mean, to be honest with you, myself, and Steven, we have a lot of support in the Caribbean So we'll definitely have some support tomorrow for sure as it relates to the whole team, I think a few people from USA actually flew to the Caribbean to support us. So, it's really good but that's no face for us. We just want to play hard cricket regardless of situation
[Reporter:]
Looking at your record to I mean coming in before the tournament a lot of chat was about sort of the strike rate and you seem to really sort of feed off Not only the atmosphere, but the energy and just the hype of this this tournament. How much do you think you're going to enjoy the Super 8 stage and actually testing your game further both as a leader and a key batter of the side?
[Aaron Jones:]
For me personally to be honest I like to play situation. I like to play for my team always. If it's the case I'm playing a game and we need five runs an over, I'll bat to suit. If we need 15 runs or over, I'll bat to suit. So, I don't really worry about the whole talk about strike rate and all this other stuff.
As it relates to playing against some of the better teams in the world, I'm looking forward to it for sure. The boys are happy, the boys are excited to play against the best teams in the world. We wanted to do that. We've been speaking about that over the last couple of years. And here we are now, so we're just going to enjoy our cricket and, as I said, play fearless cricket all the time.
[Reporter:]
Looking at your opponents in South Africa, they're a side that probably haven't been at their best but they're definitely ones in the conversation as a team that can potentially win the tournament. What have you looked into on a tactical front of your opponent’s tomorrow?
[Aaron Jones:]
I mean I don't want to get into too deep about the whole meetings and stuff we have but I'll say we have some guys that played against South Africa and played with South African guys in the past and we have some South African guys on our team as well. So, we have a bit of insight on the team and yeah, hopefully everything goes well tomorrow.
[Reporter:]
Speaking of those players, Shadley, has he taken the American socks off yet or is there still the superstition going on that front?
[Aaron Jones:]
I think he has like maybe four or five pairs of those socks to be honest with you. He really enjoy it to be honest. We like it. Every game we look forward to see which socks he's going to wear to be honest with you.
[Reporter:]
And then maybe just finally, I mean, to kind of build off that group stage campaign, what's your kind of message to maybe some new fans who have been brought into the spectacle that is T20 World Cup cricket? What's the message to those back in the US supporting the team for the rest of the tournament?
[Aaron Jones:]
Well firstly thank you for everything. I think that's really important. Over the last few years, we've been talking about growing a bigger following as it relates to US cricket and I think it's growing slowly right now so we definitely thank them for sure. And yeah, just keep supporting us, keep following us, keep watching our games and we'll definitely put on a good show for everybody for sure.
[Reporter:]
Have you found just your view personally, whether it's your social media or other things, the profile, has it been a big change from in the last couple of weeks?
[Aaron Jones:]
Yeah, social media being crazy to be honest. But yeah, I'm pretty used to the whole social media stuff. I, to be honest with you, I don't pay much attention to social media. I try to, even if I'm doing well, obviously I'll get a lot of good comments, and if I'm doing bad, then obviously how the comments go. So, I don't really get too deep into social media. I log on from here one or two times a day, but I don't get too deep into it, to be honest. But it's been good over the last couple of weeks.
