.Two years ago, there wasn't room for Travis Head in Australia's ODI team.David Warner as well as Aaron Finch took up the opening slots, along with the South Australian only participating in six ODIs in between January 2019 and also October 2022 despite brilliant kind at native level.Finch's retirement in overdue 2022 opened the door for Head's go back to the nationwide 50-over edge-- and the left-hander has rarely place a feet wrong since.Over the last pair of years, Head has built up 968 ODI performs at 64.53 along with a strike cost of 124.58, featuring four centuries and also 4 fifties. He led Australia to Planet Mug glory in 2015 along with a career-defining 137 in the ultimate against India, quashing the voice Ahmedabad crowd.And on Thursday night, the South Australian cracked a career-best 154 * coming from 129 distributions against 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 & exclusive on FOX SPORTING ACTIVITIES, accessible on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your free of charge trial today >" He's a significant player," England interim trainer Marcus Trescothick said of Head during the post-match press conference." The kind he's in as well as the method he's tackling his work is extremely hard for us. You can find exactly how really good a player he is actually and also the influence he has actually had on all the video games." If he gets in and also obtains momentum going, he's tough to bowl at, for certain. Eventually the worm will certainly turn as well as with any luck we hop on top of that and also obtain a little bit of chance on the other side." Australia's Travis Head commemorates. Picture by Darren Staples/ AFPSource: AFPHead's T20 type has actually been actually just as outstanding, if not even more thus. He is actually presently No. 1 on the ICC men's T20I hitting positions, slapping 1685 runs at 37.44 with an eye-watering strike fee of 176.25 given that the begin of final year.After being actually lost from the Examination side as well as missing a national contract in 2021, Head has become Australia's the majority of regular multi-format cricketer and also among one of the most dreaded openers in the white-ball formats.However, Head's glittering ODI and also T20 kind has actually fuelled guesswork on whether he ought to open up the hitting in the Test arena this summer.It shows up more and more extremely unlikely that teammate Steve Johnson are going to deal with the brand new sphere against India this summer season, along with Australian trainer Andrew McDonald proposing Usman Khawaja's opening partner will certainly arise from within the incumbent beginning XI.And there is actually an increasing sense that Head might reproduce the accomplishments of Warner by opening in every three styles." I believe that Travis Head might be ideal satisfied (to opening in Examinations)," Khawaja informed Fox Cricket recently." He is actually undoubtedly been actually very successful opening up the hitting in one-day cricket and, breaking it down, I 'd probably pitch in the direction of him." The peace of mind transfers over. When you're viewing the ball properly, scoring lots of runs and also very little is experiencing your head, it is actually a great area to become." Dwarshuis delivers first ODI gate|00:38 Head has actually opened up the hitting prior to at Test level, albeit merely for 3 matches during the course of in 2014's Border-Gavaskar Prize campaign in India after Warner suffered a palm personal injury. Throughout a collection where most of Australia's batters battled for congruity, Scalp notched 223 runs at 55.75 in 5 knocks.Shifting the 30-year-old up to open in Exams will allow Johnson to go back to his popular No. 4 position, yet nationwide selectors might be reluctant to component techniques along with Scalp's counterattacking type in the center order.When asked about the capacity of opening up the hitting in Exams this summer season, Scalp confirmed he understood the making guesswork." Keep the chatter, it creates it fascinating," Head smirked." I'm certainly not heading to dive into that. I'll merely allow that participate in out." The 2nd ODI in between England and Australia gets underway at Headingley on Sunday, along with the first sphere planned for 8pm AEST.