.Two years ago, there had not been room for Travis Head in Australia's ODI team.David Warner as well as Aaron Finch took up the opening slots, with the South Australian merely playing 6 ODIs between January 2019 as well as October 2022 despite scintillating kind at native level.Finch's retired life in late 2022 unlocked for Head's return to the national 50-over edge-- and the left-hander has rarely place a feet incorrect since.Over the final two years, Scalp has accumulated 968 ODI runs at 64.53 along with a strike fee of 124.58, consisting of 4 centuries and 4 fifties. He led Australia to Planet Cup splendor last year with a career-defining 137 in the ultimate versus India, silencing the voice Ahmedabad crowd.And on Thursday night, the South Australian cracked a career-best 154 * coming from 129 shipments versus England in Trent Link to assist the travelers go after a 316-run target with 6 overs to spare.Watch Australia v England ODI's Live & special on FOX SPORTING ACTIVITIES, available on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your free of cost test today >" He is actually a significant gamer," England interim coach Marcus Trescothick stated of Head throughout the post-match interview." The kind he remains in and also the method he is actually handling his work is actually incredibly challenging for our company. You can easily see how really good a player he is and the effect he has actually had on all the games." If he gets in as well as obtains drive going, he is actually hard to bowl at, without a doubt. Inevitably the earthworm will switch as well as with any luck our experts get on top of that and get a little bit of chance beyond." Australia's Travis Scalp celebrates. Photograph by Darren Staples/ AFPSource: AFPHead's T20 form has actually been just like exceptional, otherwise a lot more therefore. He's currently No. 1 on the ICC males's T20I hitting rankings, punching 1685 go for 37.44 along with an eye-watering strike fee of 176.25 since the start of final year.After being gone down coming from the Examination edge as well as missing a nationwide agreement in 2021, Head has developed into Australia's most constant multi-format cricketer as well as among the most feared openers in the white-ball formats.However, Head's glittering ODI and also T20 type has actually fed hunch on whether he need to open the hitting in the Test sector this summer.It appears progressively unexpected that colleague Steve Smith will definitely face the brand-new sphere versus India this summertime, along with Australian train Andrew McDonald advising Usman Khawaja's opening companion is going to stem from within the necessary starting XI.And there is a growing sense that Head could reproduce the accomplishments of Warner by opening in each three styles." I seem like Travis Head may be greatest fit (to opening in Tests)," Khawaja informed Fox Cricket last week." He's undoubtedly been actually very successful opening the hitting in one-day cricket and, breaking it down, I 'd perhaps bend in the direction of him." The confidence moves over. When you're finding the sphere effectively, slashing tons of operates as well as not much is actually going through your head, it is actually a great place to become." Dwarshuis supplies first ODI arch|00:38 Scalp has actually opened up the hitting before at Exam level, albeit just for 3 suits in the course of last year's Border-Gavaskar Trophy project in India after Warner suffered a hand accident. Throughout a collection where most of Australia's batters struggled for consistency, Head scratched 223 go for 55.75 in five knocks.Shifting the 30-year-old approximately open up in Tests would allow Johnson to go back to his ideal No. 4 placement, but nationwide selectors might hesitate to part means along with Scalp's counterattacking type in the middle order.When inquired about the capacity of opening up the hitting in Tests this summertime, Scalp confirmed he was aware of the developing conjecture." Keep the chatter, it creates it appealing," Scalp smirked." I am actually not mosting likely to study that. I'll just allow that participate in out." The second ODI in between England and also Australia acquires underway at Headingley on Saturday, along with the initial ball set up for 8pm AEST.