.Pair of years earlier, there had not been area for Travis Head in Australia's ODI team.David Warner as well as Aaron Finch took up the position ports, with the South Australian only participating in 6 ODIs between January 2019 as well as October 2022 in spite of scintillating type at domestic level.Finch's retirement in overdue 2022 opened the door for Head's return to the nationwide 50-over edge-- and also the left-hander has hardly put a feet wrong since.Over the final two years, Scalp has actually built up 968 ODI runs at 64.53 along with a strike cost of 124.58, including 4 centuries as well as four fifties. He led Australia to Globe Cup glory in 2015 with a career-defining 137 in the final versus India, silencing the singing Ahmedabad crowd.And on Thursday night, the South Australian split a career-best 154 * from 129 shipments versus England in Trent Bridge to aid the visitors chase a 316-run aim at along with 6 overs to spare.Watch Australia v England ODI's Live & exclusive on FOX SPORTING ACTIVITIES, readily available on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your free of charge test today >" He is actually a severe player," England acting coach Marcus Trescothick claimed of Head in the course of the post-match press conference." The type he's in and the means he is actually setting about his job is very difficult for us. You can view just how great a gamer he is actually as well as the effect he has actually had on all the games." If he enters and gets momentum going, he is actually hard to bowl at, for sure. At some point the worm will definitely transform and ideally our experts hop on top of that and also receive a bit of chance on the other side." Australia's Travis Scalp commemorates. Picture by Darren Staples/ AFPSource: AFPHead's T20 type has been just like outstanding, otherwise a lot more so. He is actually currently No. 1 on the ICC males's T20I batting rankings, slapping 1685 runs at 37.44 along with an eye-watering strike rate of 176.25 due to the fact that the begin of final year.After being dropped coming from the Exam side and also skipping a nationwide contract in 2021, Head has actually developed into Australia's most constant multi-format cricketer and also some of the best dreaded openers in the white-ball formats.However, Head's glittering ODI as well as T20 kind has actually sustained opinion on whether he ought to open up the hitting in the Examination arena this summer.It appears significantly extremely unlikely that ally Steve Johnson are going to deal with the brand new ball against India this summer, with Australian coach Andrew McDonald advising Usman Khawaja's opening up companion is going to arise from within the incumbent beginning XI.And there is an expanding sense that Head could possibly duplicate the tasks of Warner through opening in each three layouts." I seem like Travis Head might be finest matched (to opening in Examinations)," Khawaja told Fox Cricket recently." He is actually clearly been actually very successful opening the hitting in one-day cricket and, simplifying, I will perhaps lean in the direction of him." The confidence transactions over. When you are actually observing the ball effectively, scoring bunches of runs as well as very little is experiencing your head, it's an excellent area to be." Dwarshuis supplies initial ODI wicket|00:38 Scalp has opened up the batting before at Examination level, albeit only for three matches during the course of in 2013's Border-Gavaskar Trophy project in India after Warner experienced a hand trauma. Throughout a set where many of Australia's batters had a hard time for consistency, Scalp notched 223 perform at 55.75 in 5 knocks.Shifting the 30-year-old around open in Tests would certainly permit Johnson to come back to his popular No. 4 setting, however nationwide selectors may hesitate to component techniques along with Head's counterattacking design in between order.When asked about the capacity of opening up the batting in Examinations this summer, Scalp affirmed he recognized the developing supposition." Keep the babble, it creates it exciting," Scalp smirked." I'm certainly not going to study that. I'll only let that play out." The 2nd ODI between England and Australia receives underway at Headingley on Sunday, along with the first sphere booked for 8pm AEST.