Travis Head : Journey From Mr. Icc To No. 1 T20 Batsman

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Australia‘s current era’s best player is Travis Head to a great extent. Either format he played but he is successful in every game of ODI, Test and T20I. He was the hero of World Test Championship final 2023, World Cup final 2023 and also in the Border Gavaskar trophy 2024/25. Because of him, Australia recently won 2 ICC titles and BGT trophy after 10 years. He is currently the No.1 T20 Batsman. If we look at his current T20 stats then we know, he scored continuously for Australia in this format.

Travis Head Reaches career-best T20I Ranking

In T20I, Travis Head has 855 ratings right now. Head has scored 1011 T20I runs in 37 innings till now but his performance in the last 2 years was incredible. In 2024, he scored 539 T20I runs in 15 matches with an average of 38.50. His strike rate is also 178.47. Head is an opening batsman of Australian cricket in white ball format. He plays his natural game from the beginning of the match. He puts pressure on the bowlers right from the start

Apart from internationals, he also played his natural game in the IPL. While playing for Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier ...
... League 2024, Travis Head scored 567 runs in just 15 matches, including 1 century and 4 half-centuries. His strike rate was always above 200 during his innings. He hit 64 fours and 32 sixes at an average of 40 in the entire tournament. He removed the pressure from his partner. This is the reason why his partner (Abhishek Sharma) also played his natural game. Because of these two, SRH became the highest run scorer in the history of IPL.

Australian opener Travis Head became the top T20I batsman on 26 June 2024. He overtook Suryakumar Yadav of India, who was at the top position since December 2023. Head has remained the number 1 T20 batsman for the last 6 months. His next task will definitely be the ICC upcoming matches. Where he would like to perform his best again. The T20 World Cup will be played once again in the year 2026 where Head can play a decisive role for Australia. Nowadays he is known as a nightmare for the Indian cricket team. He played a big innings of 163 runs in the World Test Championship Final 2023. Then he played the best ODI innings of his career in the World Cup Final 2023 where he scored 137 runs. A few days ago, he scored 448 runs including 2 centuries against India in the Border Gavaskar Trophy 2024/25. The kind of form he is in. If he is called the world's no. 1 T20I batsman, then there is nothing wrong in that. Visit here for more details: https://www.cricketbazaar.com/cricket-news