.2 years back, there wasn't space for Travis Head in Australia's ODI team.David Warner and Aaron Finch occupied the opening ports, along with the South Australian simply participating in six ODIs in between January 2019 and also Oct 2022 in spite of brilliant kind at native level.Finch's retirement life in late 2022 unlocked for Scalp's come back to the nationwide 50-over edge-- as well as the left-hander has hardly put a foot wrong since.Over the last pair of years, Scalp has actually accumulated 968 ODI performs at 64.53 with a strike rate of 124.58, featuring 4 centuries and also 4 fifties. He led Australia to World Mug grandeur last year along with a career-defining 137 in the final against India, muting the voice Ahmedabad crowd.And on Thursday night, the South Australian fractured a career-best 154 * from 129 distributions against England in Trent Link to help the travelers go after a 316-run target with six overs to spare.Watch Australia v England ODI's Live & special on FOX SPORTING ACTIVITIES, on call on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your cost-free test today >" He's a major player," England acting coach Marcus Trescothick mentioned of Head during the course of the post-match press conference." The type he remains in and the technique he is actually engaging in his work is extremely hard for our team. You may view exactly how excellent a player he is actually and the effect he has had on all the activities." If he gets inside and receives drive going, he is actually hard to bowl at, for sure. At some point the worm will certainly transform as well as perhaps our team get on best of that and receive a bit of chance on the other side." Australia's Travis Scalp celebrates. Picture by Darren Staples/ AFPSource: AFPHead's T20 type has actually been actually equally exceptional, if not a lot more thus. He's presently No. 1 on the ICC males's T20I hitting ranks, punching 1685 go for 37.44 along with an eye-watering strike price of 176.25 since the beginning of final year.After being actually gone down from the Exam edge and also missing a nationwide agreement in 2021, Head has turned into Australia's the majority of consistent multi-format cricketer and one of the most been afraid openers in the white-ball formats.However, Head's glittering ODI and also T20 form has actually fed guesswork on whether he ought to open up the batting in the Exam arena this summer.It seems more and more unexpected that ally Steve Johnson are going to deal with the brand-new round against India this summertime, with Australian train Andrew McDonald proposing Usman Khawaja's opening partner will definitely stem from within the necessary starting XI.And there is an expanding sense that Head might replicate the tasks of Detector through opening up with all three styles." I believe that Travis Head may be absolute best fit (to opening up in Tests)," Khawaja said to Fox Cricket recently." He is actually clearly been best-selling opening up the batting in one-day cricket and also, breaking it down, I 'd probably bend in the direction of him." The confidence transmissions over. When you're seeing the sphere well, scoring bunches of runs and not much is actually experiencing your head, it is actually a terrific place to be." Dwarshuis supplies maiden ODI wicket|00:38 Head has actually opened the batting before at Examination degree, albeit merely for three matches throughout last year's Border-Gavaskar Trophy campaign in India after Warner went through a palm accident. During the course of a series where many of Australia's batters struggled for consistency, Scalp marked 223 perform at 55.75 in 5 knocks.Shifting the 30-year-old as much as open up in Tests would permit Johnson to come back to his preferred No. 4 position, yet nationwide selectors might be reluctant to part techniques along with Scalp's counterattacking type between order.When asked about the potential of opening the batting in Examinations this summer season, Scalp confirmed he was aware of the developing guesswork." Keep the babble, it makes it intriguing," Head smirked." I am actually certainly not heading to dive into that. I'll only let that participate in out." The 2nd ODI in between England as well as Australia receives underway at Headingley on Sunday, with the 1st sphere arranged for 8pm AEST.