.Two years back, there wasn't room for Travis Scalp in Australia's ODI team.David Detector and Aaron Finch took up the position ports, along with the South Australian simply participating in 6 ODIs between January 2019 and also Oct 2022 regardless of scintillating kind at native level.Finch's retired life in overdue 2022 unlocked for Scalp's come back to the nationwide 50-over side-- and also the left-hander has barely put a foot inappropriate since.Over the last 2 years, Head has actually collected 968 ODI performs at 64.53 along with a strike rate of 124.58, consisting of four centuries and 4 fifties. He led Australia to World Cup glory in 2015 along with a career-defining 137 in the final versus India, quashing the voice Ahmedabad crowd.And on Thursday evening, the South Australian cracked a career-best 154 * coming from 129 deliveries versus England in Trent Bridge to assist the vacationers chase a 316-run intended along with six overs to spare.Watch Australia v England ODI's Live & special on FOX SPORTS, readily available on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your cost-free test today >" He's a significant gamer," England interim trainer Marcus Trescothick claimed of Head during the course of the post-match press conference." The kind he resides in and the method he's tackling his job is actually extremely challenging for us. You can observe how excellent a player he is and also the impact he has had on all the activities." If he gets in and also acquires momentum going, he's hard to bowl at, for certain. Inevitably the worm will turn and also perhaps our experts get on leading of that and obtain a little bit of chance beyond." Australia's Travis Head commemorates. Photo through Darren Staples/ AFPSource: AFPHead's T20 kind has actually been just as outstanding, if not a lot more thus. He is actually currently No. 1 on the ICC men's T20I batting rankings, slapping 1685 runs at 37.44 along with an eye-watering strike price of 176.25 since the beginning of final year.After being dropped coming from the Exam side as well as missing out on a national agreement in 2021, Head has actually turned into Australia's a lot of constant multi-format cricketer and also among the best been afraid of openers in the white-ball formats.However, Head's glittering ODI as well as T20 kind has actually fuelled opinion on whether he must open up the hitting in the Exam arena this summer.It shows up increasingly extremely unlikely that teammate Steve Smith are going to experience the new ball versus India this summer, with Australian instructor Andrew McDonald recommending Usman Khawaja's opening up partner is going to stem from within the incumbent beginning XI.And there is actually an increasing feeling that Head can reproduce the feats of Detector by opening in each 3 layouts." I feel like Travis Head might be ideal suited (to opening up in Tests)," Khawaja told Fox Cricket last week." He's undoubtedly been actually best-selling opening the hitting in one-day cricket and also, breaking it down, I 'd most likely bend in the direction of him." The confidence transactions over. When you are actually observing the round effectively, scoring tons of runs and very little is actually looking at your head, it is actually a great location to be." Dwarshuis provides maiden ODI arch|00:38 Head has actually opened up the hitting prior to at Exam amount, albeit simply for three matches during in 2014's Border-Gavaskar Prize project in India after Detector suffered a palm accident. During the course of a set where a lot of Australia's batters struggled for uniformity, Scalp marked 223 go for 55.75 in five knocks.Shifting the 30-year-old as much as open in Examinations would allow Johnson to go back to his preferred No. 4 posture, yet nationwide selectors might be reluctant to part methods along with Scalp's counterattacking type in between order.When asked about the potential of opening up the batting in Examinations this summertime, Scalp verified he recognized the developing hunch." Keep the chatter, it creates it intriguing," Scalp smirked." I am actually not mosting likely to dive into that. I'll merely permit that play out." The 2nd ODI in between England as well as Australia receives underway at Headingley on Saturday, along with the very first ball arranged for 8pm AEST.