.Two years back, there wasn't room for Travis Scalp in Australia's ODI team.David Warner and Aaron Finch occupied the opening ports, along with the South Australian only participating in six ODIs between January 2019 and also Oct 2022 regardless of scintillating kind at national level.Finch's retired life in overdue 2022 unlocked for Head's come back to the national 50-over edge-- as well as the left-hander possesses rarely place a feet wrong since.Over the last two years, Scalp has accumulated 968 ODI goes for 64.53 with a strike fee of 124.58, including 4 centuries and also 4 fifties. He led Australia to World Mug grandeur last year along with a career-defining 137 in the last against India, muting the singing Ahmedabad crowd.And on Thursday night, the South Australian fractured a career-best 154 * from 129 distributions against England in Trent Link to assist the tourists chase a 316-run aim at along with six overs to spare.Watch Australia v England ODI's Live & exclusive on FOX SPORTING ACTIVITIES, accessible on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your free trial today >" He is actually a major gamer," England interim trainer Marcus Trescothick stated of Head throughout the post-match press conference." The type he remains in and the means he's tackling his job is extremely tough for us. You can view how excellent a player he is actually and the influence he has carried all the activities." If he gets inside and acquires drive going, he's hard to bowl at, for certain. Ultimately the earthworm will definitely turn as well as with any luck our experts hop on top of that and get a bit of chance beyond." Australia's Travis Head celebrates. Image through Darren Staples/ AFPSource: AFPHead's T20 type has actually been just as outstanding, if not more therefore. He is actually currently No. 1 on the ICC males's T20I hitting ranks, punching 1685 runs at 37.44 along with an eye-watering strike cost of 176.25 due to the fact that the start of final year.After being actually dropped coming from the Examination side and also missing out on a national arrangement in 2021, Head has actually developed into Australia's a lot of regular multi-format cricketer and one of one of the most dreaded openers in the white-ball formats.However, Head's glittering ODI and also T20 type has fed hunch on whether he need to open up the batting in the Test sector this summer.It seems more and more extremely unlikely that ally Steve Smith will definitely deal with the brand new ball against India this summer season, along with Australian trainer Andrew McDonald proposing Usman Khawaja's opening partner is going to arise from within the necessary beginning XI.And there is actually an expanding sense that Head could possibly reproduce the feats of Detector through opening in every 3 layouts." I believe that Travis Head could be best suited (to opening in Examinations)," Khawaja said to Fox Cricket recently." He's obviously been actually best-selling opening up the batting in one-day cricket and also, breaking it down, I 'd most likely pitch in the direction of him." The confidence transfers over. When you are actually seeing the ball effectively, scoring bunches of runs and not much is actually experiencing your head, it is actually an excellent location to be." Dwarshuis supplies first ODI wicket|00:38 Scalp has actually opened the batting prior to at Examination amount, albeit only for three matches in the course of in 2014's Border-Gavaskar Prize initiative in India after Warner experienced a hand accident. In the course of a collection where most of Australia's batters struggled for congruity, Scalp scratched 223 go for 55.75 in 5 knocks.Shifting the 30-year-old up to open in Tests would permit Smith to go back to his favored No. 4 setting, however nationwide selectors might be reluctant to component ways with Head's counterattacking style in between order.When inquired about the capacity of opening the hitting in Tests this summer months, Scalp affirmed he was aware of the brewing conjecture." Keep the babble, it makes it appealing," Scalp smirked." I am actually certainly not going to study that. I'll just permit that participate in out." The 2nd ODI in between England and also Australia acquires underway at Headingley on Saturday, with the 1st round arranged for 8pm AEST.