Let us talk of the Test match format first, shall we for after all, the legends must be spoken for at first. Two of his 9 career centuries and 5 of his 20 fifties have come against Australia’s biggest rivals. The latter meaning a fourth of his overall career fifties have come against a team the Australians love playing against and when possible, relish hammering. But on the whole, Travis Head’s stats against England do point to a direction where one would say, there lies a barrage of runs and some heavy-duty scoring.
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| Matches | Runs | Average | Highest Score | 50s | 100s |
| 14 | 931 | 38.7 | 152 | 5 | 2 |
As one could see doing schoolboy math, with 69 more runs Australia’s Travis Head would have head butted England with 1000 Test match career runs. 1000 runs in red ball cricket is actually a dream for many a youngster who wants nothing else but, at the very least, a thousand runs in cricket’s most challenging format. But here is what’s truly interesting about a dangerous batter who is spoken less about where it comes to technique and more where it comes to overall ability to destroy an opponent, thereby taking the game away from the enemy’s grasp.
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It’s not just the timing of the ball or the audacious hitting to either sides of the ground that does it for the brave left hander; it’s the manner in which one of modern cricket’s most exciting players goes about collecting the runs that speaks volumes about Travis Head and how he operates in the game. It’s a sport he so loves and one in which he excels wearing cool weathers up on his sleeve. Seldom perturbed, more often in command as he was much like during his breezy 152 that came at Brisbane off just 148 deliveries in 2021, Head means business when he goes about stamping his authority in the sport. Four years ago, a period of time in which he went about registering his most notable score, Head struck English bowlers to all parts of The Gabba, hitting 14 fours and 4 sixes. And while it took Mark Wood to dismiss a player who bats in a dismissive manner, more often than not, Head had done it for the Aussies, helping them compile a huge first inning lead after batting first, the English managed a paltry 147. But even during Travis Head’s highest individual score against England, his strike rate was north of 100. If that’s not interesting, then what is?
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| Overall Tests | Runs | Bat Average | Highest score | 50s | 100s |
| 61 (102 inns) | 3984 | 41.5 | 175 v WI | 20 | 9 |
With 16 more Test match runs, Head will make 4000 Test match runs, a career high. And already, 29 of his 102 innings have led to a fifty or a fifty plus score, which means every 3.5 times that he has gone out to bat in Test whites, Australia have been assured of a fifty or fifty plus score. Not bad, ha?
Moreover, in one day international cricket against England, Head has scored the following
900 international runs- from just 19 innings- including 2 fifties and 6 centuries. His batting average against Australia’s great Ashes rivals is touching 53. However, most impressive being the fact that 900 of his 3007 limited-overs runs in fifty overs cricket have against England. Talk of domination, here’s a fine example.