Travis Head Biography: Cricketer Travis Michael Head represents Australia internationally. He was born on December 29, 1993. For domestic games, he has contracts with South Australia and the Adelaide Strikers. He is a hard-hitting middle-order left-hander who also bowls off-spin occasionally. From January 2019 to November 2020, he served as a co-vice-captain of the Australian national team for Test matches.
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Head got off to a quick start in his career, playing for Australia in the 2012 Under-19 Cricket World Cup, and made his first-class debut at the age of 18. He regularly maintained his position in the South Australia Sheffield Shield squad, and in 2015 he was named captain.
Early Career:
Head, who is from Adelaide and played youth cricket for Trinity College and the Craigmore Cricket Club, represented South Australia at the under-17 and under-19 levels. At the age of 17, he made his debut in the National Under-19 Championships. In early 2012, at the age of 18, Head made his first-class cricket debut for South Australia in the Sheffield Shield after establishing himself as a grade cricket player for Tea Tree Gully Cricket Club.
With three matches for South Australia, he had a promising start to his career. In his second encounter, he scored his first half-century, and in his third match against Tasmania, he came up 90 runs short of his first century. At the end of the campaign, South Australia offered him a rookie contract as compensation. The Australian national side used Head in 18 under-19 One Day International (ODI) games, including at the 2012 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. Throughout the competition, he made an impression with both the bat and the ball, scoring 87 runs off 42 balls against Scotland and claiming three wickets against Bangladesh in the quarterfinal.
International career and South Australian captaincy (from 2015):
(2015–2016) Limited-overs debut
Johan Botha remained with the team for the remainder of the season to help with the transition, although Head was named to succeed Botha as the captain of South Australia in February 2015. He was the youngest captain of the South Australian team in their 122-year history of first-class play at the age of 21. His fortunes as captain continued to improve in the 2015–16 season as he excelled in all three game types. With 202 runs from 120 balls at the start of the season, he became the third Australian in history to accomplish so in a List-A game.
Head’s performance earned him a spot in the Australian Twenty20 International team for a run of matches against India. On Australia Day of the series, at his home field, the Adelaide Oval, he made his debut abroad. He returned to the Sheffield Shield after the series and scored two more centuries, one against Western Australia to seal another one-wicket victory and the other against Tasmania, where he scored a career-high 192 to aid South Australia in an innings triumph in just two days.
Test cricket (2018–present)
Head received a national contract from Cricket Australia in April 2018 for the 2018–19 campaign. He was included in Australia’s Test squad for their matchup with Pakistan in September 2018. On October 7, 2018, he played in his first Test match for Australia against Pakistan. He received his oversized green cap from Nathan Lyon.
Prior to the series against Sri Lanka on January 24, 2019, Head and Pat Cummins were named Australia’s new Test vice-captains. This was brought about by the absence of the normal vice-captains. Josh Hazlewood’s injury and Mitchell Marsh’s exclusion from the Test team. over the course of three innings in the two-test series.
Return of Limited Overs in 2022
Head, who last played white-ball cricket for Australia in 2018, was a member of the 16-man team that faced Sri Lanka in a five-match T20I series in January 2022. Cricket Australia revealed in February that Head would join the team in Melbourne after missing the start of the series to compete in the Sheffield Shield. He was absent from all of the games.
Head was a member of the white-ball team for the Pakistan tour in February 2022. He scored his second century (101 off 72 deliveries) when opening the batting in the first ODI, his first since November 2018, got two wickets, and was named player of the match. In the second ODI, he scored 89 runs, but in the last game, he was out for a golden duck. In the one-off game, he returned to Twenty20 cricket.
Batting and Bowling Stats:
Batting Stats of Travis Head
| Game Type | Mat | Inn | R | BF | NO | Avg | S/R | 100s | 50s | H | 4s | 6s | Ct | St |
| ODIs | 52 | 48 | 1823 | 1904 | 3 | 40.51 | 95.74 | 3 | 13 | 152 | 190 | 32 | 13 | 0 |
| TESTs | 36 | 57 | 2361 | 3819 | 5 | 45.40 | 61.82 | 5 | 13 | 175 | 277 | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| T20Is | 17 | 16 | 345 | 259 | 3 | 26.53 | 133.20 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 22 | 11 | 4 | 0 |
| T20s | 101 | 97 | 2285 | 1739 | 13 | 27.20 | 131.39 | 1 | 9 | 101 | 162 | 96 | 34 | 0 |
| LISTAs | 125 | 121 | 4876 | 4828 | 7 | 42.77 | 100.99 | 12 | 25 | 230 | 523 | 103 | 38 | 0 |
| FIRSTCLASS | 148 | 262 | 9977 | 16208 | 17 | 40.72 | 61.55 | 20 | 57 | 223 | 1297 | 56 | 67 | 0 |
Bowling Stats of Travis Head
| Game Type | Mat | Inn | O | R | W | Avg | E/R | Best | 5w | 10w |
| ODIs | 52 | 30 | 140.3 | 818 | 14 | 58.42 | 5.82 | 2/22 | 0 | 0 |
| TESTs | 36 | 21 | 72.5 | 242 | 7 | 34.57 | 3.32 | 4/10 | 0 | 0 |
| T20Is | 17 | 4 | 6 | 56 | 1 | 56.00 | 9.33 | 1/16 | 0 | 0 |
| T20s | 101 | 44 | 74.1 | 627 | 22 | 28.50 | 8.45 | 3/16 | 0 | 0 |
| LISTAs | 125 | 60 | 268 | 1621 | 26 | 62.34 | 6.04 | 2/9 | 0 | 0 |
| FIRSTCLASS | 148 | 139 | 1002.1 | 3805 | 61 | 62.37 | 3.79 | 4/10 | 0 | 0 |
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