.Two years earlier, there wasn't space for Travis Head in Australia's ODI team.David Warner and also Aaron Finch took up the opening slots, along with the South Australian merely participating in six ODIs in between January 2019 and October 2022 in spite of scintillating kind at native level.Finch's retirement life in late 2022 unlocked for Head's go back to the national 50-over edge-- and also the left-hander possesses hardly place a feet inappropriate since.Over the last two years, Head has collected 968 ODI runs at 64.53 with a strike fee of 124.58, consisting of 4 centuries and also four fifties. He led Australia to Planet Mug splendor in 2015 with a career-defining 137 in the last against India, quashing the vocal Ahmedabad crowd.And on Thursday evening, the South Australian split a career-best 154 * from 129 shippings versus England in Trent Link to help the vacationers chase after a 316-run target with 6 overs to spare.Watch Australia v England ODI's Live & special on FOX SPORTING ACTIVITIES, available on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your free of cost trial today >" He is actually a major gamer," England interim instructor Marcus Trescothick pointed out of Head throughout the post-match press conference." The kind he resides in and the method he's dealing with his work is quite difficult for our team. You may observe how excellent a gamer he is actually as well as the impact he has carried all the activities." If he gets in and gets energy going, he's challenging to bowl at, for certain. At some point the worm will turn and with any luck our company jump on best of that as well as obtain a little bit of luck beyond." Australia's Travis Head celebrates. Image through Darren Staples/ AFPSource: AFPHead's T20 form has been actually equally as outstanding, otherwise even more so. He is actually currently No. 1 on the ICC guys's T20I batting positions, smacking 1685 runs at 37.44 along with an eye-watering strike cost of 176.25 due to the fact that the start of last year.After being dropped from the Test edge and also missing out on a nationwide deal in 2021, Head has actually become Australia's the majority of consistent multi-format cricketer and also some of the most worried openers in the white-ball formats.However, Head's glittering ODI and also T20 kind has fed hunch on whether he must open the hitting in the Examination field this summer.It seems increasingly unlikely that ally Steve Smith will definitely experience the new sphere versus India this summertime, along with Australian coach Andrew McDonald proposing Usman Khawaja's opening partner will definitely originate from within the incumbent beginning XI.And there is actually a growing feeling that Head could possibly imitate the tasks of Detector by opening in all 3 formats." I think that Travis Head could be finest suited (to opening in Exams)," Khawaja told Fox Cricket last week." He is actually certainly been actually very successful opening up the batting in one-day cricket and, breaking it down, I will probably pitch in the direction of him." The assurance transmissions over. When you are actually observing the ball properly, slashing lots of operates as well as very little is experiencing your head, it is actually a terrific spot to be." Dwarshuis supplies initial ODI gate|00:38 Scalp has actually opened up the batting just before at Examination amount, albeit just for three matches throughout in 2014's Border-Gavaskar Trophy project in India after Warner suffered a hand trauma. During the course of a set where many of Australia's concoctions struggled for consistency, Head scratched 223 runs at 55.75 in 5 knocks.Shifting the 30-year-old as much as open in Exams would certainly allow Johnson to come back to his popular No. 4 placement, however nationwide selectors may hesitate to component means with Scalp's counterattacking style between order.When asked them about the possibility of opening the hitting in Examinations this summer season, Scalp validated he understood the developing speculation." Maintain the chatter, it makes it exciting," Scalp smirked." I am actually certainly not visiting dive into that. I'll just allow that play out." The second ODI between England as well as Australia gets underway at Headingley on Sunday, along with the 1st sphere scheduled for 8pm AEST.