.Two years ago, there had not been space for Travis Scalp in Australia's ODI team.David Detector and also Aaron Finch inhabited the opening slots, along with the South Australian simply participating in 6 ODIs in between January 2019 and October 2022 regardless of brilliant form at national level.Finch's retired life in overdue 2022 unlocked for Scalp's return to the nationwide 50-over edge-- as well as the left-hander possesses barely place a feet incorrect since.Over the final 2 years, Scalp has built up 968 ODI goes for 64.53 along with a strike cost of 124.58, including four centuries and also 4 fifties. He led Australia to Globe Cup glory in 2014 with a career-defining 137 in the ultimate versus India, muting the singing Ahmedabad crowd.And on Thursday evening, the South Australian cracked a career-best 154 * coming from 129 distributions against England in Trent Link to aid the visitors chase after a 316-run aim at along with 6 overs to spare.Watch Australia v England ODI's Live & unique on FOX SPORTS, available on Kayo. New to Kayo? Start your cost-free trial today >" He is actually a serious gamer," England interim instructor Marcus Trescothick claimed of Head in the course of the post-match interview." The form he remains in as well as the way he's handling his work is actually incredibly tough for our team. You can easily find just how excellent a gamer he is as well as the influence he has actually had on all the activities." If he gets inside and obtains energy going, he is actually tough to bowl at, for certain. Eventually the worm is going to transform as well as perhaps we climb on top of that and acquire a bit of chance beyond." Australia's Travis Scalp celebrates. Image through Darren Staples/ AFPSource: AFPHead's T20 type has been actually equally as impressive, otherwise even more so. He's currently No. 1 on the ICC men's T20I batting positions, punching 1685 perform at 37.44 along with an eye-watering strike fee of 176.25 given that the begin of final year.After being lost from the Examination side and skipping a national contract in 2021, Head has actually become Australia's a lot of constant multi-format cricketer as well as some of the most been afraid of openers in the white-ball formats.However, Head's glittering ODI as well as T20 kind has sustained hunch on whether he must open the batting in the Examination field this summer.It seems significantly unexpected that teammate Steve Johnson will definitely encounter the brand-new sphere versus India this summer season, along with Australian instructor Andrew McDonald recommending Usman Khawaja's opening companion is going to come from within the incumbent beginning XI.And there is actually an expanding feeling that Head could possibly reproduce the tasks of Detector by opening in every 3 layouts." I seem like Travis Head might be greatest fit (to opening in Examinations)," Khawaja said to Fox Cricket recently." He is actually clearly been very successful opening up the batting in one-day cricket and also, breaking it down, I will possibly bend towards him." The peace of mind transmissions over. When you are actually finding the ball effectively, scoring tons of runs and not much is experiencing your head, it's a fantastic place to be." Dwarshuis supplies first ODI wicket|00:38 Scalp has opened up the hitting just before at Test degree, albeit only for 3 matches during last year's Border-Gavaskar Trophy campaign in India after Warner endured a hand accident. In the course of a series where the majority of Australia's batters struggled for consistency, Head marked 223 perform at 55.75 in five knocks.Shifting the 30-year-old approximately open up in Exams would certainly make it possible for Johnson to return to his ideal No. 4 setting, however nationwide selectors might hesitate to component techniques along with Scalp's counterattacking type in between order.When asked about the potential of opening the batting in Examinations this summer months, Head validated he understood the brewing conjecture." Keep the babble, it creates it interesting," Head smirked." I am actually not mosting likely to study that. I'll just permit that participate in out." The second ODI in between England as well as Australia acquires underway at Headingley on Saturday, with the 1st round set up for 8pm AEST.