.Two years ago, there had not been room for Travis Head in Australia's ODI team.David Warner and also Aaron Finch inhabited the opening ports, with the South Australian simply playing six ODIs between January 2019 and also Oct 2022 despite brilliant kind at domestic level.Finch's retirement life in overdue 2022 opened the door for Head's go back to the national 50-over side-- as well as the left-hander has barely place a foot incorrect since.Over the final two years, Head has actually accumulated 968 ODI performs at 64.53 along with a strike fee of 124.58, consisting of 4 centuries and four fifties. He led Australia to World Cup magnificence last year with a career-defining 137 in the ultimate against India, silencing the voice Ahmedabad crowd.And on Thursday evening, the South Australian broke a career-best 154 * from 129 distributions versus England in Trent Bridge to aid the visitors chase after a 316-run aim at with six overs to spare.Watch Australia v England ODI's Live & special on FOX SPORTS, on call on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your cost-free test today >" He is actually a significant player," England interim instructor Marcus Trescothick claimed of Head throughout the post-match interview." The type he resides in and also the technique he's tackling his job is extremely hard for our team. You can see just how great a gamer he is actually and also the influence he has actually carried all the activities." If he enters and obtains drive going, he's hard to bowl at, for sure. Inevitably the worm will certainly switch as well as with any luck we hop on leading of that and also acquire a little bit of chance beyond." Australia's Travis Scalp commemorates. Photo by Darren Staples/ AFPSource: AFPHead's T20 kind has been actually just as exceptional, otherwise much more so. He's currently No. 1 on the ICC men's T20I batting rankings, punching 1685 runs at 37.44 along with an eye-watering strike rate of 176.25 since the beginning of final year.After being fallen from the Examination edge as well as skipping a national agreement in 2021, Head has developed into Australia's many regular multi-format cricketer and one of one of the most been afraid openers in the white-ball formats.However, Head's glittering ODI as well as T20 form has actually sustained speculation on whether he need to open up the batting in the Exam field this summer.It shows up more and more unexpected that teammate Steve Johnson will certainly face the brand new sphere versus India this summer months, along with Australian coach Andrew McDonald proposing Usman Khawaja's opening up partner will stem from within the necessary starting XI.And there is actually an expanding feeling that Head might duplicate the tasks of Detector by opening in every three formats." I think that Travis Head may be absolute best suited (to opening up in Examinations)," Khawaja told Fox Cricket recently." He's certainly been very successful opening the batting in one-day cricket and also, simplifying, I 'd most likely bend in the direction of him." The confidence transfers over. When you are actually finding the ball well, slashing bunches of runs and also not much is experiencing your head, it's an excellent location to be." Dwarshuis provides first ODI arch|00:38 Scalp has actually opened up the hitting just before at Test amount, albeit merely for 3 suits throughout in 2015's Border-Gavaskar Prize initiative in India after Detector experienced a palm personal injury. During the course of a series where a lot of Australia's batters struggled for consistency, Scalp marked 223 perform at 55.75 in 5 knocks.Shifting the 30-year-old as much as open in Tests would certainly enable Smith to come back to his favored No. 4 position, however nationwide selectors might be reluctant to component means with Head's counterattacking type in the center order.When inquired about the potential of opening up the batting in Tests this summer season, Head verified he was aware of the brewing conjecture." Keep the babble, it makes it appealing," Head smirked." I'm not visiting study that. I'll merely permit that play out." The second ODI in between England and also Australia acquires underway at Headingley on Sunday, along with the initial sphere planned for 8pm AEST.