.Two years back, there had not been area for Travis Scalp in Australia's ODI team.David Warner as well as Aaron Finch occupied the position slots, along with the South Australian merely participating in six ODIs between January 2019 and October 2022 in spite of scintillating type at national level.Finch's retirement in late 2022 unlocked for Head's return to the nationwide 50-over side-- and also the left-hander possesses barely place a foot wrong since.Over the final pair of years, Head has accumulated 968 ODI goes for 64.53 along with a strike price of 124.58, consisting of four centuries as well as 4 fifties. He led Australia to Globe Mug magnificence in 2013 along with a career-defining 137 in the last versus India, quashing the singing Ahmedabad crowd.And on Thursday night, the South Australian fractured a career-best 154 * coming from 129 shipments against England in Trent Bridge to aid the tourists chase a 316-run target along with six overs to spare.Watch Australia v England ODI's Live & exclusive on FOX SPORTS, on call on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your free of charge trial today >" He's a severe player," England interim trainer Marcus Trescothick pointed out of Head throughout the post-match press conference." The type he remains in and also the technique he is actually engaging in his job is incredibly hard for us. You may observe how great a gamer he is actually and also the effect he has carried all the video games." If he gets in and also acquires momentum going, he's tough to bowl at, for sure. Eventually the worm will definitely switch as well as ideally we get on top of that and obtain a bit of chance on the other side." Australia's Travis Scalp celebrates. Photograph by Darren Staples/ AFPSource: AFPHead's T20 type has been actually equally as excellent, if not a lot more so. He is actually currently No. 1 on the ICC guys's T20I batting ranks, slapping 1685 go for 37.44 along with an eye-watering strike fee of 176.25 since the start of final year.After being actually lost from the Examination side as well as overlooking a national contract in 2021, Head has become Australia's most constant multi-format cricketer as well as one of the most feared openers in the white-ball formats.However, Head's glittering ODI as well as T20 type has fuelled hunch on whether he ought to open up the batting in the Examination arena this summer.It seems considerably extremely unlikely that teammate Steve Johnson will face the brand new sphere versus India this summer, along with Australian instructor Andrew McDonald advising Usman Khawaja's opening companion will certainly come from within the incumbent starting XI.And there is actually a developing sense that Head might imitate the accomplishments of Warner by opening up in all three formats." I believe that Travis Head might be absolute best suited (to opening in Exams)," Khawaja told Fox Cricket recently." He's certainly been very successful opening up the hitting in one-day cricket as well as, breaking it down, I will possibly pitch towards him." The assurance moves over. When you are actually viewing the ball properly, slashing considerable amounts of runs as well as very little is undergoing your head, it is actually an excellent location to become." Dwarshuis supplies maiden ODI wicket|00:38 Scalp has opened the batting before at Exam degree, albeit only for 3 suits throughout in 2013's Border-Gavaskar Trophy project in India after Detector endured a palm injury. In the course of a series where a lot of Australia's concoctions struggled for consistency, Head notched 223 go for 55.75 in 5 knocks.Shifting the 30-year-old approximately open up in Tests would certainly allow Smith to return to his recommended No. 4 setting, however national selectors might be reluctant to part ways with Scalp's counterattacking type between order.When inquired about the capacity of opening up the batting in Examinations this summer season, Scalp verified he understood the developing guesswork." Always keep the babble, it creates it interesting," Head smirked." I'm not mosting likely to dive into that. I'll merely let that play out." The 2nd ODI between England and also Australia acquires underway at Headingley on Sunday, along with the initial sphere scheduled for 8pm AEST.