.Two years ago, there had not been area for Travis Head in Australia's ODI team.David Warner and Aaron Finch occupied the opening ports, with the South Australian only participating in 6 ODIs in between January 2019 and Oct 2022 in spite of scintillating type at native level.Finch's retired life in late 2022 opened the door for Scalp's go back to the national 50-over edge-- and the left-hander has barely put a feet wrong since.Over the final pair of years, Scalp has built up 968 ODI runs at 64.53 with a strike fee of 124.58, including four centuries and also 4 fifties. He led Australia to Planet Mug magnificence in 2015 with a career-defining 137 in the final against India, quashing the vocal Ahmedabad crowd.And on Thursday evening, the South Australian broke a career-best 154 * from 129 shippings versus England in Trent Link to assist the vacationers chase after a 316-run intended along with six overs to spare.Watch Australia v England ODI's Live & exclusive on FOX SPORTS, on call on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your free of charge test today >" He is actually a significant player," England interim instructor Marcus Trescothick said of Head during the course of the post-match press conference." The form he resides in as well as the means he is actually dealing with his job is actually extremely tough for our team. You can view how really good a gamer he is and the influence he has carried all the activities." If he gets in and obtains energy going, he's difficult to bowl at, for sure. Inevitably the worm is going to switch and also hopefully we climb on leading of that as well as receive a little chance beyond." Australia's Travis Head celebrates. Picture through Darren Staples/ AFPSource: AFPHead's T20 type has actually been actually equally as outstanding, or even a lot more therefore. He's currently No. 1 on the ICC men's T20I batting rankings, smacking 1685 perform at 37.44 with an eye-watering strike rate of 176.25 considering that the start of last year.After being lost from the Examination edge as well as skipping a nationwide agreement in 2021, Head has actually turned into Australia's many regular multi-format cricketer and one of one of the most worried openers in the white-ball formats.However, Head's glittering ODI and T20 type has actually fed speculation on whether he need to open up the batting in the Test sector this summer.It shows up progressively unlikely that colleague Steve Johnson will encounter the brand-new round against India this summer season, with Australian trainer Andrew McDonald suggesting Usman Khawaja's opening companion will originate from within the incumbent starting XI.And there is actually a developing feeling that Head can reproduce the accomplishments of Warner by opening up in each three layouts." I feel like Travis Head may be absolute best fit (to opening up in Tests)," Khawaja said to Fox Cricket last week." He is actually clearly been best-selling opening the hitting in one-day cricket and also, breaking it down, I 'd perhaps bend in the direction of him." The peace of mind transactions over. When you are actually seeing the ball well, scoring tons of operates as well as not much is actually undergoing your head, it is actually a wonderful area to become." Dwarshuis supplies initial ODI gate|00:38 Head has opened the hitting prior to at Examination amount, albeit merely for three suits throughout in 2013's Border-Gavaskar Prize campaign in India after Detector suffered a hand trauma. During the course of a collection where the majority of Australia's concoctions had a hard time for consistency, Head marked 223 perform at 55.75 in 5 knocks.Shifting the 30-year-old as much as open up in Exams would certainly permit Smith to return to his recommended No. 4 setting, yet nationwide selectors might hesitate to part ways along with Scalp's counterattacking style in between order.When asked them about the possibility of opening the batting in Tests this summer season, Head confirmed he understood the developing opinion." Maintain the chatter, it creates it fascinating," Head smirked." I'm not visiting study that. I'll only permit that play out." The 2nd ODI between England as well as Australia receives underway at Headingley on Saturday, along with the very first sphere planned for 8pm AEST.