.Two years back, there wasn't space for Travis Scalp in Australia's ODI team.David Detector and Aaron Finch occupied the position ports, along with the South Australian merely playing six ODIs in between January 2019 and also October 2022 even with brilliant type at native level.Finch's retirement in overdue 2022 opened the door for Head's come back to the nationwide 50-over side-- as well as the left-hander has rarely place a feet wrong since.Over the final pair of years, Head has actually gathered 968 ODI performs at 64.53 along with a strike fee of 124.58, consisting of four centuries and four fifties. He led Australia to World Mug glory last year with a career-defining 137 in the ultimate versus India, silencing the singing Ahmedabad crowd.And on Thursday night, the South Australian split a career-best 154 * from 129 shippings versus England in Trent Bridge to aid the tourists chase after a 316-run aim at along with 6 overs to spare.Watch Australia v England ODI's Live & unique on FOX SPORTS, accessible on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your totally free test today >" He's a major player," England interim coach Marcus Trescothick said of Head during the course of the post-match press conference." The kind he remains in and the method he is actually going about his work is quite challenging for us. You can easily see just how excellent a player he is actually and the influence he has actually had on all the games." If he gets in and receives drive going, he's difficult to bowl at, for certain. Eventually the earthworm will transform and with any luck we climb on best of that and also obtain a little bit of luck on the other side." Australia's Travis Head celebrates. Picture by Darren Staples/ AFPSource: AFPHead's T20 kind has actually been equally as remarkable, or even even more thus. He's presently No. 1 on the ICC guys's T20I batting positions, slapping 1685 perform at 37.44 along with an eye-watering strike rate of 176.25 given that the beginning of final year.After being actually dropped from the Test side and missing out on a national agreement in 2021, Head has actually turned into Australia's the majority of consistent multi-format cricketer as well as one of the absolute most been afraid openers in the white-ball formats.However, Head's glittering ODI as well as T20 kind has actually sustained opinion on whether he should open up the batting in the Test arena this summer.It shows up considerably extremely unlikely that ally Steve Smith are going to deal with the new sphere against India this summer season, along with Australian trainer Andrew McDonald suggesting Usman Khawaja's opening up partner will certainly come from within the incumbent starting XI.And there is actually an expanding feeling that Head could duplicate the accomplishments of Detector by opening up with all three layouts." I think that Travis Head may be ideal suited (to opening up in Tests)," Khawaja said to Fox Cricket recently." He is actually definitely been best-selling opening the batting in one-day cricket and, simplifying, I will most likely bend towards him." The self-confidence moves over. When you're finding the round well, scoring bunches of runs and not much is actually looking at your head, it is actually a terrific location to be." Dwarshuis delivers maiden ODI gate|00:38 Scalp has opened the batting just before at Examination degree, albeit merely for three suits during last year's Border-Gavaskar Prize project in India after Warner went through a hand trauma. During the course of a collection where many of Australia's batters had a hard time for consistency, Scalp scratched 223 go for 55.75 in five knocks.Shifting the 30-year-old approximately open in Exams would make it possible for Johnson to return to his ideal No. 4 setting, however nationwide selectors may be reluctant to part methods along with Scalp's counterattacking type in the center order.When asked about the potential of opening the batting in Exams this summer months, Head validated he understood the developing opinion." Maintain the chatter, it makes it exciting," Scalp smirked." I'm certainly not visiting study that. I'll only permit that participate in out." The second ODI between England and Australia acquires underway at Headingley on Sunday, with the very first ball scheduled for 8pm AEST.