.2 years ago, there had not been space for Travis Head in Australia's ODI team.David Detector and Aaron Finch occupied the opening ports, along with the South Australian simply playing six ODIs in between January 2019 and also Oct 2022 despite brilliant form at domestic level.Finch's retirement in overdue 2022 opened the door for Scalp's return to the nationwide 50-over edge-- and also the left-hander has hardly put a feet incorrect since.Over the last 2 years, Scalp has actually gathered 968 ODI performs at 64.53 along with a strike price of 124.58, consisting of four centuries and also 4 fifties. He led Australia to World Cup grandeur in 2015 with a career-defining 137 in the ultimate versus India, quashing the voice Ahmedabad crowd.And on Thursday evening, the South Australian fractured a career-best 154 * from 129 shippings versus England in Trent Bridge to help the tourists go after a 316-run target with 6 overs to spare.Watch Australia v England ODI's Live & unique on FOX SPORTING ACTIVITIES, on call on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your complimentary trial today >" He is actually a significant gamer," England acting coach Marcus Trescothick stated of Head throughout the post-match interview." The form he remains in and the method he's going about his work is actually very difficult for us. You may observe how great a gamer he is and also the impact he has had on all the games." If he gets inside and obtains energy going, he is actually hard to bowl at, without a doubt. Ultimately the worm will definitely turn and with any luck our experts climb on top of that and also receive a bit of chance on the other side." Australia's Travis Head celebrates. Picture by Darren Staples/ AFPSource: AFPHead's T20 type has been just as impressive, or even more so. He is actually currently No. 1 on the ICC guys's T20I hitting rankings, smacking 1685 perform at 37.44 with an eye-watering strike price of 176.25 given that the start of last year.After being dropped from the Exam edge and also missing a nationwide contract in 2021, Head has actually developed into Australia's a lot of steady multi-format cricketer and some of the absolute most feared openers in the white-ball formats.However, Head's glittering ODI and also T20 form has actually fed guesswork on whether he must open the hitting in the Test arena this summer.It shows up progressively not likely that colleague Steve Smith are going to encounter the brand-new ball against India this summer season, along with Australian train Andrew McDonald recommending Usman Khawaja's opening companion is going to arise from within the necessary beginning XI.And there is actually a developing feeling that Head could possibly duplicate the feats of Warner by opening in each three styles." I seem like Travis Head may be ideal suited (to opening up in Exams)," Khawaja informed Fox Cricket recently." He's certainly been actually best-selling opening the hitting in one-day cricket and also, simplifying, I 'd possibly bend in the direction of him." The confidence transmissions over. When you are actually seeing the sphere well, slashing considerable amounts of runs and also very little is going through your head, it is actually a fantastic place to become." Dwarshuis supplies initial ODI gate|00:38 Head has actually opened the batting before at Examination level, albeit just for 3 matches in the course of in 2014's Border-Gavaskar Prize campaign in India after Detector went through a hand injury. Throughout a series where a lot of Australia's batters struggled for congruity, Head marked 223 perform at 55.75 in five knocks.Shifting the 30-year-old up to open up in Tests would certainly enable Johnson to go back to his favored No. 4 posture, but nationwide selectors might hesitate to part means along with Head's counterattacking type in the center order.When asked them about the possibility of opening the hitting in Tests this summer, Scalp validated he knew the brewing conjecture." Always keep the babble, it makes it exciting," Scalp smirked." I'm certainly not heading to study that. I'll only let that play out." The 2nd ODI in between England and Australia obtains underway at Headingley on Saturday, with the initial ball arranged for 8pm AEST.