.Two years earlier, there had not been room for Travis Head in Australia's ODI team.David Detector and Aaron Finch occupied the position ports, with the South Australian simply playing six ODIs between January 2019 and Oct 2022 regardless of brilliant kind at native level.Finch's retirement life in overdue 2022 opened the door for Scalp's return to the national 50-over side-- and the left-hander possesses rarely place a feet inappropriate since.Over the final pair of years, Scalp has gathered 968 ODI goes for 64.53 along with a strike price of 124.58, including four centuries and 4 fifties. He led Australia to Globe Cup splendor in 2014 with a career-defining 137 in the final versus India, quashing the singing 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 vacationers chase after a 316-run aim at with 6 overs to spare.Watch Australia v England ODI's Live & special on FOX SPORTS, offered on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your complimentary test today >" He is actually a significant gamer," England acting trainer Marcus Trescothick claimed of Head throughout the post-match press conference." The kind he remains in as well as the means he's handling his job is extremely challenging for our company. You can easily observe exactly how good a player he is as well as the influence he has actually carried all the video games." If he gets in and also obtains energy going, he is actually difficult to bowl at, for sure. Eventually the worm will definitely transform and with any luck our company climb on best of that and also obtain a little bit of luck beyond." Australia's Travis Head celebrates. Image through Darren Staples/ AFPSource: AFPHead's T20 form has actually been just as remarkable, otherwise much more so. He is actually currently No. 1 on the ICC guys's T20I hitting ranks, punching 1685 runs at 37.44 along with an eye-watering strike rate of 176.25 because the start of final year.After being lost coming from the Test side and missing a nationwide deal in 2021, Head has actually turned into Australia's most constant multi-format cricketer and one of the absolute most dreaded openers in the white-ball formats.However, Head's glittering ODI and also T20 form has actually fuelled opinion on whether he ought to open the batting in the Examination sector this summer.It appears increasingly not likely that colleague Steve Johnson are going to encounter the brand-new ball against India this summer months, along with Australian coach Andrew McDonald recommending Usman Khawaja's opening partner will originate from within the necessary starting XI.And there is an expanding sense that Head can imitate the tasks of Warner by opening up in every three styles." I seem like Travis Head might be ideal matched (to opening in Exams)," Khawaja informed Fox Cricket last week." He's clearly been actually very successful opening the hitting in one-day cricket and also, breaking it down, I will most likely lean in the direction of him." The confidence moves over. When you're observing the sphere effectively, scoring bunches of runs and not much is actually looking at your head, it's a wonderful area to be." Dwarshuis delivers initial ODI opening|00:38 Scalp has actually opened up the batting before at Exam amount, albeit simply for 3 suits throughout in 2015's Border-Gavaskar Prize project in India after Detector experienced a palm accident. During the course of a collection where a lot of Australia's concoctions had a hard time for congruity, Head marked 223 go for 55.75 in five knocks.Shifting the 30-year-old around open up in Examinations would enable Smith to come back to his favored No. 4 posture, yet national selectors may be reluctant to part means with Scalp's counterattacking design in between order.When asked about the ability of opening the hitting in Examinations this summer, Head affirmed he understood the brewing supposition." Always keep the chatter, it creates it intriguing," Scalp smirked." I am actually not heading to study that. I'll just let that play out." The second ODI between England and Australia obtains underway at Headingley on Sunday, with the 1st sphere arranged for 8pm AEST.