.Pair of years ago, there had not been area for Travis Scalp in Australia's ODI team.David Warner and also Aaron Finch occupied the position slots, with the South Australian merely participating in six ODIs in between January 2019 and October 2022 regardless of scintillating kind at national level.Finch's retirement in overdue 2022 opened the door for Scalp's come back to the national 50-over side-- and also the left-hander possesses hardly put a feet inappropriate since.Over the final 2 years, Scalp has built up 968 ODI goes for 64.53 along with a strike fee of 124.58, consisting of 4 centuries and 4 fifties. He led Australia to Globe Mug magnificence last year with a career-defining 137 in the last against India, quashing the voice Ahmedabad crowd.And on Thursday evening, the South Australian broke a career-best 154 * from 129 shippings against England in Trent Link to assist the visitors go after a 316-run intended along with six overs to spare.Watch Australia v England ODI's Live & unique on FOX SPORTS, available on Kayo. New to Kayo? Beginning your free of cost trial today >" He's a serious player," England interim trainer Marcus Trescothick mentioned of Head during the course of the post-match press conference." The form he remains in as well as the way he is actually handling his job is actually quite challenging for our team. You can observe just how really good a player he is and also the effect he has carried all the video games." If he gets in and also obtains momentum going, he is actually hard to bowl at, for certain. Inevitably the earthworm will switch and hopefully our company get on top of that and acquire a little chance on the other side." Australia's Travis Scalp celebrates. Picture by Darren Staples/ AFPSource: AFPHead's T20 type has been actually equally outstanding, if not a lot more so. He's currently No. 1 on the ICC guys's T20I hitting rankings, punching 1685 perform at 37.44 with an eye-watering strike fee of 176.25 due to the fact that the start of last year.After being gone down coming from the Exam edge as well as missing out on a national arrangement in 2021, Head has actually become Australia's many regular multi-format cricketer and also one of the best worried openers in the white-ball formats.However, Head's glittering ODI and also T20 form has actually fuelled opinion on whether he ought to open the batting in the Examination field this summer.It shows up more and more improbable that teammate Steve Johnson are going to face the brand-new round against India this summertime, along with Australian trainer Andrew McDonald recommending Usman Khawaja's opening up companion will come from within the necessary beginning XI.And there is an expanding feeling that Head might reproduce the accomplishments of Detector through opening with all three formats." I feel like Travis Head could be ideal suited (to opening up in Examinations)," Khawaja said to Fox Cricket last week." He's definitely been very successful opening up the hitting in one-day cricket as well as, breaking it down, I will most likely pitch in the direction of him." The peace of mind transmissions over. When you are actually finding the ball well, scoring lots of operates and very little is actually experiencing your head, it is actually a fantastic location to be." Dwarshuis provides maiden ODI arch|00:38 Head has actually opened the batting before at Exam level, albeit just for 3 matches in the course of in 2014's Border-Gavaskar Trophy initiative in India after Warner experienced a palm trauma. In the course of a series where a lot of Australia's batters had a hard time for consistency, Scalp marked 223 perform at 55.75 in 5 knocks.Shifting the 30-year-old as much as open up in Examinations will allow Smith to go back to his favored No. 4 position, however nationwide selectors might hesitate to component ways with Head's counterattacking type in the middle order.When inquired about the capacity of opening up the batting in Exams this summer season, Scalp verified he knew the brewing opinion." Keep the babble, it makes it fascinating," Scalp smirked." I am actually not mosting likely to dive into that. I'll only let that participate in out." The second ODI in between England as well as Australia acquires underway at Headingley on Saturday, along with the first round booked for 8pm AEST.