.Pair of years ago, there had not been room for Travis Head in Australia's ODI team.David Warner and also Aaron Finch inhabited the position slots, with the South Australian only participating in 6 ODIs in between January 2019 and also Oct 2022 regardless of scintillating form at national level.Finch's retired life in late 2022 opened the door for Head's return to the national 50-over edge-- as well as the left-hander possesses barely put a feet wrong since.Over the last two years, Head has accumulated 968 ODI goes for 64.53 with a strike cost of 124.58, featuring four centuries and four fifties. He led Australia to Globe Mug glory in 2013 with a career-defining 137 in the final versus India, muting the singing Ahmedabad crowd.And on Thursday evening, the South Australian broke a career-best 154 * from 129 distributions versus England in Trent Link to assist the vacationers chase after a 316-run aim at with six overs to spare.Watch Australia v England ODI's Live & special on FOX SPORTS, available on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your free of charge trial today >" He's a severe gamer," England interim instructor Marcus Trescothick mentioned of Head during the course of the post-match press conference." The type he remains in and the method he's tackling his job is quite difficult for our company. You can easily see how excellent a gamer he is as well as the effect he has actually carried all the activities." If he gets inside as well as receives energy going, he's challenging to bowl at, for certain. At some point the worm will certainly transform and with any luck our company get on best of that and receive a little bit of chance on the other side." Australia's Travis Head celebrates. Photo through Darren Staples/ AFPSource: AFPHead's T20 form has actually been just like outstanding, if not more so. He is actually currently No. 1 on the ICC guys's T20I batting rankings, punching 1685 runs at 37.44 along with an eye-watering strike cost of 176.25 due to the fact that the start of final year.After being actually dropped coming from the Examination side and missing a nationwide arrangement in 2021, Head has developed into Australia's most constant multi-format cricketer as well as some of the most been afraid of openers in the white-ball formats.However, Head's glittering ODI as well as T20 kind has fuelled opinion on whether he need to open the batting in the Test field this summer.It seems more and more unlikely that teammate Steve Smith are going to experience the brand new sphere versus India this summertime, with Australian train Andrew McDonald proposing Usman Khawaja's opening up partner will stem from within the incumbent beginning XI.And there is actually an increasing feeling that Head might replicate the tasks of Detector through opening up in every three formats." I think that Travis Head might be best matched (to opening in Examinations)," Khawaja said to Fox Cricket last week." He's obviously been actually very successful opening the hitting in one-day cricket as well as, breaking it down, I will most likely bend towards him." The assurance transfers over. When you are actually finding the round effectively, slashing lots of operates and not much is going through your head, it's a fantastic location to be." Dwarshuis supplies first ODI arch|00:38 Scalp has actually opened the batting prior to at Examination amount, albeit only for 3 matches throughout in 2013's Border-Gavaskar Trophy initiative in India after Detector endured a hand personal injury. In the course of a set where the majority of Australia's batters struggled for congruity, Scalp notched 223 go for 55.75 in 5 knocks.Shifting the 30-year-old up to open up in Examinations will permit Johnson to return to his ideal No. 4 placement, however national selectors may be reluctant to part techniques along with Scalp's counterattacking type in between order.When asked about the ability of opening the batting in Examinations this summer months, Head validated he was aware of the brewing speculation." Keep the babble, it makes it exciting," Scalp smirked." I am actually certainly not going to study that. I'll just let that participate in out." The 2nd ODI between England and Australia obtains underway at Headingley on Saturday, along with the first round scheduled for 8pm AEST.