.Two years ago, there wasn't room for Travis Scalp in Australia's ODI team.David Warner and Aaron Finch inhabited the opening ports, with the South Australian simply playing six ODIs between January 2019 and October 2022 regardless of scintillating type at native level.Finch's retirement life in overdue 2022 unlocked for Scalp's go back to the national 50-over side-- and the left-hander possesses hardly place a feet incorrect since.Over the final two years, Head has gathered 968 ODI runs at 64.53 along with a strike price of 124.58, featuring 4 centuries and four fifties. He led Australia to World Mug grandeur last year with a career-defining 137 in the ultimate versus India, muting the voice Ahmedabad crowd.And on Thursday night, the South Australian broke a career-best 154 * from 129 shipments versus England in Trent Link to aid the tourists chase a 316-run target with six overs to spare.Watch Australia v England ODI's Live & special on FOX SPORTS, on call on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your free trial today >" He is actually a severe gamer," England acting trainer Marcus Trescothick said of Head throughout the post-match press conference." The form he's in as well as the way he's handling his work is actually really hard for our team. You can easily find how excellent a player he is and the effect he has had on all the games." If he gets inside and receives momentum going, he is actually tough to bowl at, for certain. Inevitably the worm is going to switch as well as hopefully our team get on best of that and also obtain a bit of chance beyond." Australia's Travis Scalp celebrates. Photo by Darren Staples/ AFPSource: AFPHead's T20 form has actually been actually equally as impressive, otherwise a lot more therefore. He's currently No. 1 on the ICC men's T20I hitting ranks, slapping 1685 runs at 37.44 along with an eye-watering strike price of 176.25 due to the fact that the start of final year.After being fallen from the Examination side and overlooking a national agreement in 2021, Head has turned into Australia's a lot of constant multi-format cricketer as well as one of the absolute most dreaded openers in the white-ball formats.However, Head's glittering ODI as well as T20 kind has fed guesswork on whether he need to open up the hitting in the Examination sector this summer.It shows up more and more unexpected that teammate Steve Johnson will definitely deal with the brand new ball against India this summer season, along with Australian train Andrew McDonald suggesting Usman Khawaja's opening companion will definitely originate from within the incumbent starting XI.And there is actually a growing sense that Head could possibly reproduce the tasks of Detector by opening with all 3 styles." I seem like Travis Head could be finest satisfied (to opening up in Exams)," Khawaja informed Fox Cricket recently." He is actually undoubtedly been actually very successful opening up the batting in one-day cricket and also, simplifying, I 'd possibly pitch towards him." The confidence moves over. When you are actually seeing the sphere effectively, scoring tons of operates and also not much is going through your head, it is actually a wonderful area to become." Dwarshuis delivers maiden ODI gate|00:38 Scalp has actually opened the batting before at Exam amount, albeit only for 3 suits in the course of in 2015's Border-Gavaskar Prize campaign in India after Warner suffered a palm personal injury. During a set where the majority of Australia's concoctions struggled for congruity, Scalp notched 223 perform at 55.75 in 5 knocks.Shifting the 30-year-old up to open up in Exams would allow Johnson to go back to his ideal No. 4 placement, however nationwide selectors might be reluctant to component techniques along with Scalp's counterattacking type in the center order.When asked them about the capacity of opening up the hitting in Examinations this summer season, Scalp confirmed he recognized the developing conjecture." Always keep the babble, it creates it exciting," Scalp smirked." I'm not mosting likely to study that. I'll simply allow that participate in out." The second ODI between England and also Australia obtains underway at Headingley on Saturday, with the very first ball set up for 8pm AEST.