.2 years earlier, there had not been room for Travis Head in Australia's ODI team.David Warner as well as Aaron Finch inhabited the opening ports, with the South Australian only playing 6 ODIs in between January 2019 and Oct 2022 in spite of scintillating type at national level.Finch's retirement in overdue 2022 opened the door for Head's return to the national 50-over side-- and the left-hander has barely place a foot inappropriate since.Over the final two years, Scalp has gathered 968 ODI runs at 64.53 with a strike rate of 124.58, consisting of four centuries as well as 4 fifties. He led Australia to Globe Cup magnificence in 2015 along with a career-defining 137 in the last versus India, muting the vocal Ahmedabad crowd.And on Thursday night, the South Australian split a career-best 154 * coming from 129 distributions versus England in Trent Link to aid the tourists go after a 316-run intended with 6 overs to spare.Watch Australia v England ODI's Live & exclusive on FOX SPORTS, readily available on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your totally free trial today >" He is actually a severe player," England interim trainer Marcus Trescothick pointed out of Head throughout the post-match interview." The type he resides in as well as the way he is actually setting about his work is extremely tough for our team. You can easily observe exactly how good a gamer he is and also the influence he has actually carried all the games." If he gets inside and also gets drive going, he is actually tough to bowl at, for certain. Ultimately the earthworm is going to turn and perhaps our company jump on leading of that and also acquire a little bit of luck on the other side." Australia's Travis Head commemorates. Image by Darren Staples/ AFPSource: AFPHead's T20 form has been just like outstanding, or even a lot more therefore. He's presently No. 1 on the ICC men's T20I hitting positions, slapping 1685 runs at 37.44 along with an eye-watering strike cost of 176.25 since the start of final year.After being dropped from the Test edge and also overlooking a nationwide contract in 2021, Head has actually developed into Australia's most constant multi-format cricketer and one of the most been afraid of openers in the white-ball formats.However, Head's glittering ODI and T20 form has actually sustained supposition on whether he ought to open up the hitting in the Examination arena this summer.It appears increasingly unexpected that teammate Steve Johnson will deal with the brand-new round versus India this summer months, along with Australian trainer Andrew McDonald proposing Usman Khawaja's opening companion will certainly come from within the necessary starting XI.And there is actually a developing feeling that Head might duplicate the accomplishments of Warner by opening up with all 3 layouts." I think that Travis Head may be ideal matched (to opening in Exams)," Khawaja told Fox Cricket recently." He is actually certainly been very successful opening up the batting in one-day cricket as well as, simplifying, I will most likely pitch in the direction of him." The peace of mind transfers over. When you are actually finding the ball well, slashing considerable amounts of operates and also very little is actually looking at your head, it is actually an excellent area to become." Dwarshuis provides maiden ODI wicket|00:38 Scalp has actually opened the batting before at Test level, albeit merely for 3 suits during last year's Border-Gavaskar Trophy initiative in India after Warner experienced a hand trauma. During a set where many of Australia's concoctions struggled for uniformity, Scalp notched 223 go for 55.75 in 5 knocks.Shifting the 30-year-old up to open up in Exams would permit Smith to go back to his popular No. 4 posture, but national selectors might hesitate to component techniques with Scalp's counterattacking style in the middle order.When asked them about the capacity of opening the hitting in Tests this summer months, Head affirmed he understood the developing conjecture." Maintain the babble, it makes it interesting," Scalp smirked." I am actually certainly not mosting likely to dive into that. I'll only let that play out." The second ODI in between England and also Australia obtains underway at Headingley on Sunday, with the 1st ball booked for 8pm AEST.