.Pair of years back, there had not been room for Travis Head in Australia's ODI team.David Detector and also Aaron Finch occupied the position slots, along with the South Australian merely participating in six ODIs in between January 2019 and also Oct 2022 despite brilliant form at national level.Finch's retirement in overdue 2022 unlocked for Head's go back to the national 50-over edge-- as well as the left-hander has rarely place a feet incorrect since.Over the last two years, Scalp has actually built up 968 ODI performs at 64.53 with a strike rate of 124.58, consisting of 4 centuries and also four fifties. He led Australia to Globe Mug splendor in 2015 with a career-defining 137 in the last against India, quashing the vocal Ahmedabad crowd.And on Thursday night, the South Australian cracked a career-best 154 * from 129 distributions against England in Trent Bridge to help the vacationers chase after a 316-run target along with 6 overs to spare.Watch Australia v England ODI's Live & unique on FOX SPORTS, readily available on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your free of cost trial today >" He's a severe gamer," England interim instructor Marcus Trescothick claimed of Head during the course of the post-match interview." The kind he resides in and also the means he is actually going about his work is extremely challenging for our team. You can see just how excellent a player he is actually as well as the influence he has had on all the video games." If he gets inside and gets drive going, he's difficult to bowl at, for certain. Inevitably the worm will transform and also hopefully we jump on leading of that and get a little bit of luck beyond." Australia's Travis Head celebrates. Picture by Darren Staples/ AFPSource: AFPHead's T20 form has actually been equally exceptional, otherwise much more so. He's presently No. 1 on the ICC men's T20I batting ranks, punching 1685 perform at 37.44 with an eye-watering strike rate of 176.25 because the beginning of last year.After being actually dropped from the Examination edge and missing a nationwide deal in 2021, Head has actually developed into Australia's a lot of constant multi-format cricketer as well as among one of the most feared openers in the white-ball formats.However, Head's glittering ODI and also T20 kind has fed supposition on whether he need to open the hitting in the Exam sector this summer.It appears considerably unexpected that teammate Steve Johnson will experience the new round against India this summertime, along with Australian instructor Andrew McDonald suggesting Usman Khawaja's opening partner will originate from within the incumbent beginning XI.And there is a growing feeling that Head could possibly imitate the feats of Warner by opening in all 3 formats." I believe that Travis Head might be absolute best matched (to opening up in Examinations)," Khawaja told Fox Cricket last week." He's obviously been actually best-selling opening up the batting in one-day cricket and, breaking it down, I 'd perhaps bend in the direction of him." The self-confidence moves over. When you're finding the sphere effectively, slashing great deals of operates as well as very little is undergoing your head, it is actually a terrific location to become." Dwarshuis provides maiden ODI arch|00:38 Scalp has actually opened up the hitting before at Exam level, albeit simply for 3 suits in the course of last year's Border-Gavaskar Trophy initiative in India after Detector experienced a hand accident. During the course of a series where the majority of Australia's batters had a hard time for uniformity, Head notched 223 runs at 55.75 in 5 knocks.Shifting the 30-year-old as much as open in Exams would allow Johnson to go back to his recommended No. 4 placement, but national selectors may be reluctant to component ways along with Scalp's counterattacking style between order.When asked about the ability of opening up the hitting in Exams this summertime, Head validated he was aware of the making speculation." Maintain the babble, it makes it fascinating," Head smirked." I'm certainly not going to study that. I'll just let that participate in out." The 2nd ODI in between England and Australia acquires underway at Headingley on Sunday, with the first sphere booked for 8pm AEST.