.2 years back, there had not been room for Travis Scalp in Australia's ODI team.David Detector as well as Aaron Finch took up the position ports, along with the South Australian merely playing six ODIs in between January 2019 as well as Oct 2022 in spite of scintillating type at national level.Finch's retirement life in overdue 2022 unlocked for Head's come back to the national 50-over edge-- and also the left-hander possesses hardly place a feet inappropriate since.Over the final two years, Head has actually accumulated 968 ODI goes for 64.53 with a strike price of 124.58, including 4 centuries as well as four fifties. He led Australia to World Cup splendor in 2014 along with a career-defining 137 in the ultimate versus India, quashing the vocal Ahmedabad crowd.And on Thursday evening, the South Australian fractured a career-best 154 * coming from 129 shipments against England in Trent Link to aid the visitors chase a 316-run target with six overs to spare.Watch Australia v England ODI's Live & exclusive on FOX SPORTS, offered on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your cost-free trial today >" He is actually a serious player," England interim trainer Marcus Trescothick pointed out of Head during the course of the post-match press conference." The kind he remains in and also the means he's dealing with his job is incredibly tough for our company. You can view exactly how good a player he is actually as well as the influence he has actually carried all the activities." If he gets in and acquires energy going, he is actually hard to bowl at, without a doubt. Inevitably the earthworm is going to transform and also perhaps our company hop on top of that and also acquire a bit of chance on the other side." Australia's Travis Scalp commemorates. Photo through Darren Staples/ AFPSource: AFPHead's T20 form has actually been equally as exceptional, or even a lot more so. He is actually currently No. 1 on the ICC men's T20I hitting positions, slapping 1685 runs at 37.44 with an eye-watering strike cost of 176.25 given that the beginning of final year.After being gone down coming from the Examination side and missing a nationwide arrangement in 2021, Head has become Australia's most constant multi-format cricketer as well as among one of the most feared openers in the white-ball formats.However, Head's glittering ODI and T20 kind has actually sustained conjecture on whether he need to open up the batting in the Test arena this summer.It shows up significantly unlikely that teammate Steve Johnson will definitely deal with the new ball against India this summer months, along with Australian trainer Andrew McDonald recommending Usman Khawaja's opening up partner will arise from within the necessary starting XI.And there is actually a developing feeling that Head could possibly duplicate the tasks of Detector through opening up in all three layouts." I feel like Travis Head could be best satisfied (to opening up in Tests)," Khawaja said to Fox Cricket last week." He is actually certainly been actually best-selling opening up the batting in one-day cricket and, breaking it down, I will perhaps pitch towards him." The assurance transactions over. When you're viewing the sphere properly, scoring considerable amounts of operates and not much is actually going through your head, it is actually a fantastic location to be." Dwarshuis provides maiden ODI gate|00:38 Scalp has opened the batting just before at Exam amount, albeit merely for three matches during the course of in 2015's Border-Gavaskar Trophy campaign in India after Detector suffered a hand trauma. During a series where the majority of Australia's concoctions had a hard time for consistency, Scalp marked 223 runs at 55.75 in five knocks.Shifting the 30-year-old around open up in Exams will enable Johnson to go back to his favored No. 4 position, but national selectors might be reluctant to part ways along with Head's counterattacking design in the middle order.When inquired about the possibility of opening up the hitting in Examinations this summer, Scalp affirmed he recognized the making opinion." Always keep the babble, it makes it fascinating," Scalp smirked." I am actually not heading to study that. I'll simply allow that play out." The 2nd ODI in between England and also Australia gets underway at Headingley on Sunday, along with the first ball planned for 8pm AEST.