.Pair of years earlier, there wasn't space for Travis Scalp in Australia's ODI team.David Detector and Aaron Finch occupied the position ports, along with the South Australian just playing six ODIs between January 2019 and also Oct 2022 in spite of scintillating kind at domestic level.Finch's retirement life in late 2022 opened the door for Scalp's return to the national 50-over side-- as well as the left-hander possesses rarely place a foot wrong since.Over the final pair of years, Scalp has accumulated 968 ODI performs at 64.53 with a strike rate of 124.58, consisting of 4 centuries and 4 fifties. He led Australia to Globe Cup magnificence last year along with a career-defining 137 in the last versus India, muting the voice Ahmedabad crowd.And on Thursday night, the South Australian fractured a career-best 154 * coming from 129 distributions against England in Trent Link to aid the travelers go after a 316-run intended along with 6 overs to spare.Watch Australia v England ODI's Live & unique on FOX SPORTS, available on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your free trial today >" He is actually a serious gamer," England interim coach Marcus Trescothick mentioned of Head throughout the post-match press conference." The type he remains in and the method he's tackling his work is incredibly hard for our team. You can view just how good a player he is and the impact he has actually had on all the video games." If he gets inside and also acquires momentum going, he is actually tough to bowl at, without a doubt. Inevitably the earthworm is going to turn and also with any luck we get on top of that as well as obtain a little bit of chance on the other side." Australia's Travis Head celebrates. Image through Darren Staples/ AFPSource: AFPHead's T20 kind has actually been equally exceptional, if not much more thus. He is actually currently No. 1 on the ICC men's T20I hitting ranks, smacking 1685 runs at 37.44 with an eye-watering strike fee of 176.25 given that the start of last year.After being fallen coming from the Test edge as well as skipping a national deal in 2021, Head has turned into Australia's many regular multi-format cricketer and among the absolute most worried openers in the white-ball formats.However, Head's glittering ODI and also T20 type has actually sustained opinion on whether he must open the hitting in the Test field this summer.It seems more and more not likely that teammate Steve Smith will definitely face the brand new sphere versus India this summer season, along with Australian coach Andrew McDonald suggesting Usman Khawaja's opening companion will certainly stem from within the incumbent beginning XI.And there is an expanding sense that Head might duplicate the feats of Warner by opening in every three layouts." I seem like Travis Head could be greatest satisfied (to opening up in Exams)," Khawaja told Fox Cricket recently." He's obviously been actually best-selling opening up the batting in one-day cricket and also, breaking it down, I 'd possibly lean in the direction of him." The confidence transmissions over. When you're finding the ball properly, slashing considerable amounts of operates as well as not much is actually going through your head, it's a great place to be." Dwarshuis supplies initial ODI arch|00:38 Head has actually opened the hitting prior to at Examination degree, albeit only for 3 matches during in 2014's Border-Gavaskar Trophy campaign in India after Detector went through a hand accident. During a set where many of Australia's batters had a hard time for uniformity, Scalp marked 223 runs at 55.75 in 5 knocks.Shifting the 30-year-old approximately open in Exams will permit Johnson to return to his favored No. 4 posture, but national selectors might hesitate to part means along with Head's counterattacking style in between order.When inquired about the possibility of opening the hitting in Tests this summer season, Head confirmed he recognized the making supposition." Maintain the chatter, it creates it intriguing," Head smirked." I'm not going to study that. I'll merely permit that participate in out." The 2nd ODI between England and also Australia gets underway at Headingley on Sunday, with the first sphere planned for 8pm AEST.