.2 years earlier, there had not been space for Travis Scalp in Australia's ODI team.David Warner and Aaron Finch inhabited the position ports, with the South Australian only playing six ODIs in between January 2019 as well as October 2022 regardless of scintillating kind at domestic level.Finch's retirement life in late 2022 opened the door for Scalp's come back to the national 50-over edge-- and the left-hander has hardly place a feet inappropriate since.Over the final pair of years, Scalp has gathered 968 ODI performs at 64.53 along with a strike cost of 124.58, consisting of four centuries and also four fifties. He led Australia to World Mug magnificence last year along with a career-defining 137 in the last against India, quashing the vocal Ahmedabad crowd.And on Thursday night, the South Australian cracked a career-best 154 * from 129 shippings against England in Trent Link to assist the travelers go after a 316-run target along with six overs to spare.Watch Australia v England ODI's Live & exclusive on FOX SPORTING ACTIVITIES, on call on Kayo. New to Kayo? Begin your free of charge trial today >" He is actually a severe player," England acting trainer Marcus Trescothick stated of Head during the course of the post-match press conference." The form he resides in and also the method he's handling his job is actually very difficult for our team. You can view how really good a player he is and also the influence he has carried all the video games." If he gets in and obtains drive going, he's tough to bowl at, without a doubt. Ultimately the worm will definitely transform as well as hopefully our team jump on top of that as well as acquire a little luck on the other side." Australia's Travis Head commemorates. Picture through Darren Staples/ AFPSource: AFPHead's T20 form has actually been equally as excellent, if not a lot more therefore. He is actually currently No. 1 on the ICC men's T20I hitting rankings, smacking 1685 runs at 37.44 along with an eye-watering strike fee of 176.25 due to the fact that the begin of last year.After being fallen from the Exam edge and missing a nationwide contract in 2021, Head has actually become Australia's most regular multi-format cricketer as well as one of the best feared openers in the white-ball formats.However, Head's glittering ODI and also T20 type has fed hunch on whether he ought to open up the batting in the Test arena this summer.It appears significantly extremely unlikely that colleague Steve Smith will face the new ball against India this summertime, with Australian coach Andrew McDonald proposing Usman Khawaja's opening partner will certainly come from within the necessary beginning XI.And there is an increasing feeling that Head could reproduce the feats of Detector by opening in all three styles." I feel like Travis Head may be ideal suited (to opening in Exams)," Khawaja informed Fox Cricket recently." He's certainly been actually very successful opening the batting in one-day cricket and, breaking it down, I 'd possibly bend towards him." The confidence transmissions over. When you are actually seeing the ball well, slashing bunches of runs and also very little is actually experiencing your head, it is actually an excellent place to become." Dwarshuis supplies first ODI arch|00:38 Head has actually opened the hitting just before at Test degree, albeit merely for 3 matches throughout in 2015's Border-Gavaskar Trophy project in India after Warner endured a palm injury. In the course of a set where a lot of Australia's concoctions struggled for uniformity, Head marked 223 perform at 55.75 in 5 knocks.Shifting the 30-year-old up to open up in Tests would make it possible for Smith to go back to his favored No. 4 posture, however national selectors might be reluctant to component methods along with Scalp's counterattacking type in the center order.When asked them about the capacity of opening up the batting in Examinations this summer months, Head verified he knew the brewing conjecture." Keep the babble, it makes it appealing," Head smirked." I'm certainly not heading to dive into that. I'll only permit that participate in out." The second ODI between England as well as Australia acquires underway at Headingley on Saturday, along with the first ball arranged for 8pm AEST.