JACOB BETHELL is ignoring the outside noise that has followed his swift rise with England.
Bethell appears to be the poster boy of England's limitedovers reset and has delivered a few promising moments in his dozen matches since being drafted in at the back end of the summer against Australia.
Tipped to be a "superstar" by Test captain Ben Stokes and interim white-ball head coach Marcus Trescothick, Bethell thumped 20 in an over off vaunted Australia leg-spinner Adam Zampa and has made two fifties in the Caribbean which have contributed to England wins.
But the 21-year-old insisted all the hype surrounding his potential falls on deaf ears.
He said: "If I'm honest, I don't really look at anything. I don't look at the good, the bad or anything. I've got pretty good confidence in myself with what I can do.
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