.2 years back, there had not been space for Travis Head in Australia's ODI team.David Warner and Aaron Finch inhabited the opening ports, with the South Australian only playing six ODIs between January 2019 and October 2022 despite brilliant form at national level.Finch's retired life in overdue 2022 opened the door for Scalp's come back to the national 50-over edge-- and also the left-hander possesses hardly place a feet inappropriate since.Over the final 2 years, Head has actually accumulated 968 ODI performs at 64.53 along with a strike cost of 124.58, featuring four centuries and also four fifties. He led Australia to Globe Cup splendor in 2013 along with a career-defining 137 in the last against India, quashing the singing Ahmedabad crowd.And on Thursday night, the South Australian broke a career-best 154 * coming from 129 shippings against England in Trent Link to help the vacationers go after a 316-run target with 6 overs to spare.Watch Australia v England ODI's Live & exclusive on FOX SPORTS, accessible on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your complimentary test today >" He's a significant gamer," England interim trainer Marcus Trescothick pointed out of Head throughout the post-match press conference." The type he resides in and also the way he's engaging in his work is actually incredibly hard for our team. You can easily observe how great a player he is actually and also the effect he has actually had on all the activities." If he gets inside and also receives energy going, he's difficult to bowl at, without a doubt. Eventually the earthworm will certainly turn and also hopefully we hop on leading of that and also receive a little bit of chance beyond." Australia's Travis Scalp commemorates. Picture by Darren Staples/ AFPSource: AFPHead's T20 type has been just as excellent, if not more thus. He's presently No. 1 on the ICC males's T20I batting rankings, slapping 1685 perform at 37.44 along with an eye-watering strike price of 176.25 given that the beginning of last year.After being lost coming from the Test edge as well as missing out on a nationwide arrangement in 2021, Head has actually become Australia's many consistent multi-format cricketer and one of the most been afraid openers in the white-ball formats.However, Head's glittering ODI and also T20 form has actually fed guesswork on whether he must open the hitting in the Test arena this summer.It appears more and more unexpected that colleague Steve Johnson are going to face the new round versus India this summer months, along with Australian instructor Andrew McDonald proposing Usman Khawaja's opening up companion will originate from within the necessary beginning XI.And there is actually a growing sense that Head might duplicate the feats of Detector by opening up with all three formats." I seem like Travis Head might be absolute best satisfied (to opening up in Tests)," Khawaja said to Fox Cricket last week." He is actually clearly been best-selling opening the hitting in one-day cricket and, breaking it down, I will possibly lean in the direction of him." The self-confidence transmissions over. When you're observing the sphere well, slashing great deals of operates and also not much is actually undergoing your head, it's a great place to be." Dwarshuis supplies first ODI opening|00:38 Head has opened the hitting just before at Test amount, albeit just for 3 matches during in 2014's Border-Gavaskar Trophy project in India after Warner went through a palm injury. During the course of a collection where many of Australia's batters struggled for congruity, Head notched 223 runs at 55.75 in 5 knocks.Shifting the 30-year-old up to open up in Examinations would certainly make it possible for Smith to return to his ideal No. 4 placement, but nationwide selectors may be reluctant to part ways with Head's counterattacking design in the center order.When asked them about the capacity of opening up the batting in Exams this summer season, Scalp validated he understood the making conjecture." Keep the chatter, it creates it appealing," Scalp smirked." I am actually certainly not mosting likely to study that. I'll only let that play out." The 2nd ODI between England and Australia acquires underway at Headingley on Saturday, with the 1st sphere arranged for 8pm AEST.