Travis Head has had to wait for years for an opportunity to open for Australia, and now that the chance has arrived he intends to make the most of it, the batsman said after Saturday's five-run win over New Zealand at Dharamsala.
Head, who started opening six years after his 2016 One Day International debut, set the tone for the highest-scoring match in World Cup history by hitting 109 off 67 balls in his first match back since fracturing a finger in September."I think that's been a spot that I guess waited for, obviously, with playing for such a long period and their partnership being so good," Travis told reporters after winning the Player-of-the-Match award.
Head made his ODI comeback in February 2022 after a three-year absence, scoring a century against Pakistan as an opener. Later that year, he replaced Finch as an opener as the latter retired from international cricket. Marsh, who replaced an injured Head as an opener, scored 150 in Australia's first four World Cup matches.
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