.Pair of years ago, there had not been room for Travis Scalp in Australia's ODI team.David Detector and also Aaron Finch took up the opening ports, with the South Australian just playing six ODIs between January 2019 and also Oct 2022 despite brilliant kind at national level.Finch's retirement life in late 2022 unlocked for Head's come back to the nationwide 50-over side-- and the left-hander has hardly put a foot inappropriate since.Over the final two years, Head has actually accumulated 968 ODI performs at 64.53 with a strike cost of 124.58, consisting of four centuries and 4 fifties. He led Australia to Planet Cup glory in 2015 with a career-defining 137 in the ultimate against India, silencing the vocal Ahmedabad crowd.And on Thursday night, the South Australian fractured a career-best 154 * from 129 shipments versus England in Trent Link to assist the travelers go after a 316-run target along with 6 overs to spare.Watch Australia v England ODI's Live & unique on FOX SPORTS, accessible on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your free of cost test today >" He's a major gamer," England acting coach Marcus Trescothick stated of Head in the course of the post-match interview." The type he resides in as well as the means he's handling his job is really challenging for our team. You may see just how great a player he is actually and the impact he has carried all the video games." If he gets in and also obtains drive going, he is actually difficult to bowl at, for sure. At some point the worm is going to transform and also perhaps our experts hop on leading of that and also acquire a little luck beyond." Australia's Travis Head celebrates. Image by Darren Staples/ AFPSource: AFPHead's T20 form has actually been actually just as exceptional, or even more thus. He is actually currently No. 1 on the ICC guys's T20I batting ranks, slapping 1685 runs at 37.44 with an eye-watering strike fee of 176.25 considering that the begin of last year.After being lost from the Test edge and also missing a nationwide contract in 2021, Head has actually turned into Australia's most constant multi-format cricketer and among one of the most been afraid openers in the white-ball formats.However, Head's glittering ODI as well as T20 form has actually fed opinion on whether he need to open the hitting in the Test field this summer.It seems considerably unexpected that colleague Steve Johnson will definitely face the new ball versus India this summer, with Australian instructor Andrew McDonald proposing Usman Khawaja's opening up partner will definitely stem from within the necessary starting XI.And there is an increasing sense that Head can replicate the feats of Detector through opening up with all three layouts." I feel like Travis Head might be absolute best suited (to opening in Exams)," Khawaja informed Fox Cricket last week." He is actually definitely been very successful opening up the batting in one-day cricket and, simplifying, I will probably pitch towards him." The assurance transactions over. When you are actually finding the ball properly, scoring great deals of runs and very little is experiencing your head, it is actually an excellent location to be." Dwarshuis provides initial ODI gate|00:38 Scalp has opened the batting before at Exam level, albeit simply for 3 suits during the course of in 2014's Border-Gavaskar Trophy project in India after Detector experienced a palm accident. In the course of a set where most of Australia's concoctions battled for congruity, Scalp marked 223 runs at 55.75 in 5 knocks.Shifting the 30-year-old up to open up in Exams will allow Johnson to return to his favored No. 4 position, however nationwide selectors may be reluctant to part methods with Scalp's counterattacking type between order.When asked them about the possibility of opening up the batting in Examinations this summer season, Scalp verified he understood the brewing conjecture." Keep the chatter, it makes it interesting," Head smirked." I am actually certainly not visiting dive into that. I'll just let that play out." The second ODI between England and also Australia obtains underway at Headingley on Saturday, along with the very first ball set up for 8pm AEST.