.Pair of years back, there wasn't room for Travis Head in Australia's ODI team.David Warner and Aaron Finch occupied the position slots, along with the South Australian merely participating in six ODIs in between January 2019 and Oct 2022 regardless of brilliant type at domestic level.Finch's retirement life in overdue 2022 unlocked for Head's return to the nationwide 50-over edge-- as well as the left-hander has hardly place a feet wrong since.Over the final 2 years, Head has accumulated 968 ODI goes for 64.53 along with a strike cost of 124.58, including 4 centuries and 4 fifties. He led Australia to World Cup grandeur last year along with a career-defining 137 in the last against India, quashing the vocal Ahmedabad crowd.And on Thursday night, the South Australian split a career-best 154 * from 129 shippings versus England in Trent Bridge to help the travelers chase a 316-run target along with 6 overs to spare.Watch Australia v England ODI's Live & exclusive on FOX SPORTS, on call on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your free trial today >" He is actually a major player," England interim trainer Marcus Trescothick stated of Head during the post-match interview." The kind he resides in and the method he's engaging in his job is actually really hard for our team. You can easily find exactly how great a player he is actually as well as the impact he has actually had on all the activities." If he gets inside and obtains drive going, he's challenging to bowl at, without a doubt. Eventually the earthworm will definitely transform and also perhaps we climb on leading of that as well as obtain a little luck beyond." Australia's Travis Scalp commemorates. Picture by Darren Staples/ AFPSource: AFPHead's T20 kind has actually been actually equally as excellent, or even more so. He is actually presently No. 1 on the ICC males's T20I hitting rankings, smacking 1685 perform at 37.44 along with an eye-watering strike rate of 176.25 because the beginning of final year.After being actually gone down from the Test edge and also skipping a nationwide arrangement in 2021, Head has turned into Australia's the majority of regular multi-format cricketer as well as one of the best been afraid of openers in the white-ball formats.However, Head's glittering ODI as well as T20 form has actually fed supposition on whether he need to open the hitting in the Examination sector this summer.It seems considerably not likely that teammate Steve Smith will definitely encounter the brand new ball against India this summertime, with Australian trainer Andrew McDonald advising Usman Khawaja's opening companion will certainly arise from within the necessary beginning XI.And there is an increasing sense that Head can duplicate the tasks of Warner by opening in each 3 formats." I feel like Travis Head could be finest matched (to opening in Examinations)," Khawaja said to Fox Cricket last week." He is actually certainly been actually very successful opening the hitting in one-day cricket as well as, breaking it down, I 'd most likely lean towards him." The peace of mind transmissions over. When you're seeing the ball effectively, slashing lots of runs and also very little is actually experiencing your head, it is actually an excellent location to be." Dwarshuis provides maiden ODI gate|00:38 Scalp has opened up the hitting prior to at Exam amount, albeit only for three matches during the course of in 2014's Border-Gavaskar Prize campaign in India after Warner endured a hand personal injury. During a collection where a lot of Australia's concoctions had a hard time for congruity, Head marked 223 runs at 55.75 in five knocks.Shifting the 30-year-old up to open up in Exams would certainly permit Smith to return to his ideal No. 4 setting, but national selectors might be reluctant to part techniques along with Scalp's counterattacking type between order.When asked about the possibility of opening up the hitting in Tests this summer, Head validated he recognized the making opinion." Keep the babble, it makes it appealing," Scalp smirked." I am actually not heading to study that. I'll merely permit that participate in out." The second ODI in between England as well as Australia gets underway at Headingley on Saturday, with the very first sphere booked for 8pm AEST.