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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Jones fireworks upstage Kirton’s in rollicking USA win

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Sport Desk
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Aaron Jones celebrates the USA’s win over Canada in the opening match of the T20 World Cup.

Aaron Jones celebrates the USA’s win over Canada in the opening match of the T20 World Cup.

DAL­LAS – For­mer Bar­ba­dos Pride bats­man Aaron Jones launched the ninth edi­tion of the ICC Twen­ty20 World Cup in style in the Unit­ed States on Sat­ur­day with a scin­til­lat­ing half-cen­tu­ry as the Unit­ed States pro­duced a dar­ing run chase to beat Cana­da by sev­en wick­ets.

Asked to chase a chal­leng­ing 195 in the tour­na­ment open­er at Grand Prairie Sta­di­um, the home side com­fort­ably over­hauled their tar­get with 14 balls to spare, with the 29-year-old Jones blast­ing an un­beat­en 94 off a mere 40 de­liv­er­ies.

He struck four fours and 10 six­es, mas­ter­mind­ing a 131-run third wick­et stand with An­dries Gous (65) which pulled Unit­ed States around from a nervy po­si­tion of 42 for two in the sev­enth over.

Gous, 30, whose ca­reer was based al­most en­tire­ly in his na­tive South Africa, belt­ed sev­en fours and three six­es in a 46-ball knock.

Man-of-the-Match Jones reached his sec­ond T20 In­ter­na­tion­al fifth off 22 balls in the 13th over, and fit­ting­ly fin­ished the game by clear­ing the ropes at mid-wick­et with off-spin­ner Nikhil Dut­ta.

“I think right now the team is in a good place. We just want to keep win­ning as much as pos­si­ble,” Jones said af­ter­wards.

“Of course we can’t win every sin­gle game for the rest of our lives but we want to win as many games as pos­si­ble, and we want to beat as many teams as pos­si­ble, and re­al­ly show the world that USA re­al­ly have great crick­eters here in the coun­try.”

Sent in, Cana­da got a top score of 61 off 44 balls from open­er Navneet Dhali­w­al while Bar­ba­di­an Nicholas Kir­ton, who played the last of his four first class match­es for Pride as re­cent­ly as last sea­son, chipped in with a maid­en half-cen­tu­ry of 51 off 31 de­liv­er­ies.

Dhali­w­al, who struck half-dozen fours and three six­es, put on 43 for the first wick­et with Aaron John­son (23) be­fore adding a fur­ther 62 for the third wick­et with Kir­ton who count­ed three fours and two six­es.

CMC

SCORES:

Cana­da 194 for 5 (Navneet Dhali­w­al 61, Nicholas Kir­ton 51, Harmeet Singh 1-27) vs USA 197 for 3 (Aaron Jones 94 not out, An­dries Gous 65, Dilon Heyliger 1-19). USA won by sev­en wick­ets.

Play­er of the Match: Aaron Jones


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