.Pair of years back, there wasn't room for Travis Scalp in Australia's ODI team.David Detector and Aaron Finch occupied the position slots, with the South Australian merely playing 6 ODIs in between January 2019 as well as October 2022 regardless of scintillating kind at domestic level.Finch's retirement in late 2022 opened the door for Head's return to the national 50-over side-- and also the left-hander has hardly put a feet wrong since.Over the final 2 years, Head has collected 968 ODI goes for 64.53 along with a strike price of 124.58, consisting of four centuries and also 4 fifties. He led Australia to Globe Mug grandeur last year with a career-defining 137 in the last against India, quashing the voice Ahmedabad crowd.And on Thursday evening, the South Australian cracked a career-best 154 * coming from 129 distributions versus England in Trent Bridge to aid the tourists go after a 316-run intended along with 6 overs to spare.Watch Australia v England ODI's Live & unique on FOX SPORTS, available on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your free of cost test today >" He's a severe player," England interim instructor Marcus Trescothick pointed out of Head during the post-match press conference." The form he's in as well as the technique he's dealing with his work is actually incredibly tough for us. You can find how excellent a player he is and the influence he has had on all the video games." If he enters and gets energy going, he is actually difficult to bowl at, for sure. Inevitably the earthworm is going to turn and also with any luck our experts hop on best of that and receive a bit of chance beyond." Australia's Travis Scalp celebrates. Photo by Darren Staples/ AFPSource: AFPHead's T20 kind has actually been equally excellent, or even extra thus. He is actually currently No. 1 on the ICC males's T20I batting positions, punching 1685 perform at 37.44 with an eye-watering strike fee of 176.25 due to the fact that the start of final year.After being actually dropped coming from the Test side as well as skipping a nationwide agreement in 2021, Head has become Australia's a lot of regular multi-format cricketer and also among the most been afraid of openers in the white-ball formats.However, Head's glittering ODI and also T20 form has actually fuelled hunch on whether he need to open up the batting in the Test arena this summer.It seems progressively unlikely that teammate Steve Smith will face the brand-new sphere versus India this summer season, with Australian instructor Andrew McDonald advising Usman Khawaja's opening up partner will originate from within the incumbent starting XI.And there is a growing sense that Head might duplicate the accomplishments of Warner by opening up in all 3 styles." I feel like Travis Head might be ideal suited (to opening up in Exams)," Khawaja told Fox Cricket last week." He's obviously been actually very successful opening up the hitting in one-day cricket and, breaking it down, I 'd possibly lean towards him." The assurance transmissions over. When you are actually viewing the round effectively, scoring bunches of operates as well as very little is actually going through your head, it is actually a wonderful location to be." Dwarshuis provides initial ODI wicket|00:38 Scalp has actually opened up the batting before at Exam level, albeit simply for 3 matches during the course of in 2014's Border-Gavaskar Prize initiative in India after Warner experienced a hand accident. During a series where the majority of Australia's batters had a hard time for uniformity, Head scratched 223 go for 55.75 in 5 knocks.Shifting the 30-year-old as much as open up in Exams would certainly enable Johnson to return to his ideal No. 4 position, but national selectors might be reluctant to part methods along with Head's counterattacking design in the middle order.When asked them about the ability of opening the hitting in Tests this summer, Head verified he knew the brewing conjecture." Always keep the chatter, it creates it exciting," Scalp smirked." I am actually not mosting likely to study that. I'll simply permit that play out." The second ODI in between England as well as Australia gets underway at Headingley on Sunday, along with the 1st ball booked for 8pm AEST.