.Pair of years back, there had not been room for Travis Scalp in Australia's ODI team.David Detector and also Aaron Finch occupied the position ports, along with the South Australian just playing 6 ODIs between January 2019 and also October 2022 despite scintillating type at domestic level.Finch's retired life in late 2022 unlocked for Head's go back to the national 50-over edge-- and the left-hander possesses rarely place a feet wrong since.Over the final two years, Head has actually collected 968 ODI runs at 64.53 with a strike price of 124.58, consisting of four centuries as well as four fifties. He led Australia to Planet Mug glory in 2014 along with a career-defining 137 in the ultimate versus India, muting the voice Ahmedabad crowd.And on Thursday night, the South Australian broke a career-best 154 * coming from 129 shippings against England in Trent Bridge to aid the vacationers go after a 316-run intended along with six overs to spare.Watch Australia v England ODI's Live & unique on FOX SPORTING ACTIVITIES, accessible on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your complimentary trial today >" He is actually a severe gamer," England acting trainer Marcus Trescothick pointed out of Head throughout the post-match interview." The form he remains in and the means he is actually dealing with his job is quite hard for us. You can view just how great a player he is actually and the effect he has actually carried all the video games." If he gets in and also obtains energy going, he is actually challenging to bowl at, without a doubt. At some point the earthworm will certainly turn and ideally we get on best of that and get a little bit of chance beyond." Australia's Travis Scalp celebrates. Photograph by Darren Staples/ AFPSource: AFPHead's T20 kind has actually been actually just as impressive, if not a lot more therefore. He's currently No. 1 on the ICC men's T20I batting ranks, punching 1685 perform at 37.44 with an eye-watering strike cost of 176.25 given that the begin of final year.After being actually dropped from the Exam side and also missing a nationwide arrangement in 2021, Head has actually become Australia's a lot of constant multi-format cricketer and also among the absolute most dreaded openers in the white-ball formats.However, Head's glittering ODI and T20 type has sustained supposition on whether he need to open up the hitting in the Examination arena this summer.It seems more and more not likely that ally Steve Johnson will certainly encounter the brand-new sphere versus India this summer season, with Australian coach Andrew McDonald proposing Usman Khawaja's opening partner will definitely arise from within the incumbent beginning XI.And there is actually a growing feeling that Head could duplicate the feats of Warner through opening in every three layouts." I think that Travis Head may be absolute best satisfied (to opening in Examinations)," Khawaja said to Fox Cricket recently." He's obviously been actually best-selling opening up the hitting in one-day cricket and, breaking it down, I will possibly lean towards him." The confidence transactions over. When you're observing the round properly, scoring bunches of operates as well as very little is going through your head, it is actually a fantastic location to be." Dwarshuis delivers initial ODI gate|00:38 Scalp has opened up the batting before at Examination level, albeit just for 3 suits in the course of in 2015's Border-Gavaskar Prize project in India after Warner went through a hand injury. In the course of a series where most of Australia's concoctions strained for uniformity, Scalp notched 223 perform at 55.75 in 5 knocks.Shifting the 30-year-old up to open in Examinations would certainly permit Smith to return to his ideal No. 4 setting, however national selectors may be reluctant to component means along with Scalp's counterattacking design in the center order.When asked about the ability of opening the batting in Tests this summertime, Head confirmed he understood the brewing conjecture." Keep the babble, it creates it interesting," Scalp smirked." I am actually not heading to dive into that. I'll simply let that play out." The second ODI between England and also Australia gets underway at Headingley on Sunday, with the first sphere set up for 8pm AEST.