.Pair of years ago, there wasn't room for Travis Scalp in Australia's ODI team.David Detector as well as Aaron Finch took up the opening ports, along with the South Australian merely playing 6 ODIs between January 2019 and Oct 2022 despite brilliant form at domestic level.Finch's retirement life in overdue 2022 unlocked for Scalp's come back to the nationwide 50-over edge-- as well as the left-hander has barely place a foot wrong since.Over the final 2 years, Scalp has actually accumulated 968 ODI performs at 64.53 along with a strike fee of 124.58, consisting of four centuries as well as four fifties. He led Australia to Globe Cup magnificence in 2013 with a career-defining 137 in the ultimate versus India, muting the singing Ahmedabad crowd.And on Thursday night, the South Australian cracked a career-best 154 * from 129 shipments versus England in Trent Bridge to help the tourists chase after a 316-run aim at along with six overs to spare.Watch Australia v England ODI's Live & unique on FOX SPORTING ACTIVITIES, accessible on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your free of charge test today >" He's a serious player," England interim coach Marcus Trescothick stated of Head during the course of the post-match interview." The kind he's in as well as the way he is actually handling his work is quite tough for our team. You may see just how good a player he is as well as the effect he has actually carried all the games." If he gets in and receives drive going, he's hard to bowl at, without a doubt. Ultimately the earthworm will definitely turn as well as perhaps our experts jump on leading of that and also acquire a bit of luck beyond." Australia's Travis Head commemorates. Photograph by Darren Staples/ AFPSource: AFPHead's T20 form has actually been actually equally as excellent, otherwise more so. He is actually presently No. 1 on the ICC males's T20I hitting positions, smacking 1685 perform at 37.44 with an eye-watering strike cost of 176.25 since the begin of last year.After being lost from the Examination edge and skipping a national contract in 2021, Head has actually turned into Australia's many steady multi-format cricketer and some of the most dreaded openers in the white-ball formats.However, Head's glittering ODI and also T20 form has actually fed speculation on whether he should open up the batting in the Test sector this summer.It appears progressively extremely unlikely that ally Steve Smith are going to face the brand new ball against India this summer months, with Australian train Andrew McDonald proposing Usman Khawaja's opening up companion will certainly stem from within the incumbent beginning XI.And there is a growing sense that Head might imitate the accomplishments of Warner by opening up in each three styles." I seem like Travis Head might be best matched (to opening in Exams)," Khawaja told Fox Cricket last week." He's obviously been very successful opening the batting in one-day cricket and, simplifying, I will probably bend in the direction of him." The self-confidence transfers over. When you're finding the round properly, slashing great deals of runs as well as very little is actually going through your head, it's an excellent location to be." Dwarshuis supplies maiden ODI arch|00:38 Head has actually opened the hitting prior to at Exam amount, albeit just for three matches during in 2015's Border-Gavaskar Prize initiative in India after Detector went through a palm personal injury. In the course of a series where a lot of Australia's concoctions struggled for uniformity, Head scratched 223 go for 55.75 in 5 knocks.Shifting the 30-year-old up to open in Tests will make it possible for Johnson to return to his popular No. 4 posture, but national selectors might hesitate to part means with Head's counterattacking style between order.When asked them about the capacity of opening up the hitting in Tests this summer months, Scalp validated he knew the brewing speculation." Maintain the babble, it makes it appealing," Scalp smirked." I am actually certainly not heading to dive into that. I'll merely allow that participate in out." The 2nd ODI between England as well as Australia acquires underway at Headingley on Sunday, with the 1st sphere scheduled for 8pm AEST.