Travis Head is adamant he can take his good batting kind throughout the house Test summer season to India amid recommendations he could possibly be used as an opener to deal with his bizarre report within the subcontinent.
The number of Peter Handscomb and Matt Renshaw within the 18-man squad has put stress on the incumbent batters to carry out, and whereas Head has starred throughout back-to-back house summers, he has struggled on street.
Head, who took his Test common to over 45 with greater than 500 runs in opposition to the West Indies and South Africa, managed a excessive rating of simply 26 in seven innings in Pakistan and Sri Lanka in 2022.
In the 2 Test in opposition to Sri Lanka in Galle, he made a complete of 23 runs, his greatest efforts coming with the ball after taking 4-10 to spin Australia to victory within the first match.
His struggles in opposition to spin promoted recommendations Head could possibly be moved to the highest of the batting order to benefit from his attacking talents and depart him much less uncovered to spin in opposition to an older ball.
But the South Australian, who made his fifth Test hundred with an imperious 175 in opposition to the West Indies in Adelaide, was assured the work he’d performed, and his positivity, had him well-placed to carry out in India.
“I feel like not much needs to change (with my technique),” Head mentioned.
“I think maybe I need to be a little bit more positive when I’m at the crease because I’m definitely at my best when I’m more positive.
“It’s been such a small sample size for me in Asia.”
Australian choice chief George Bailey singled out Victorian captain Peter Handscomb, who was included within the squad pending a scan after injuring himself in membership cricket, as confirmed within the subcontinent, and he might rival Head for a spot throughout the four-match collection.
“Peter Handscomb deserves his place back in the squad,” Bailey mentioned. “
“His domestic form has been strong recently and Pete has proven he can perform at Test level.
“His experience against spin on the subcontinent is valuable.”
Australia received’t play any warm-up matches in India, with Head as an alternative returning to the Big Bash to play out the season with the Adelaide Strikers.
He mentioned his confirmed white-ball kind within the subcontinent, with a century in Pakistan, was a part of his methodology to get runs in Test cricket there too.
“I have been working on a few things (for India) which have worked for me well in the white-ball format,” he instructed SEN.
“That’s given me a lot of confidence to go out and play the way that I want to play.”
“Hopefully, I can translate that into a bit of red-ball (cricket) and I believe I’m only a couple of hits away from turning it around.
“We’ve got seven or eight days when we get to India to prepare (for the first Test) and crack into it.”
Head will be part of Test wicketkeeper Alex Carey in a return to the Strikers on Saturday.
