No man on planet Earth has loved the previous 4 days greater than Australian cricket hero Travis Head.
Head delivered an innings for the ages as he helped information Australia to a six-wicket victory with 42 balls remaining on Monday morning.
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The 29-year-old was an unstoppable drive as he hammered a unprecedented 137 off 120 balls, together with 15 fours and 4 sixes.
His outstanding knock was simply the seventh World Cup Final ton and the third by an Aussie.
Head additional enhanced his fame as a big-game participant, including the World Cup Final participant of the match to his participant of the match within the semi-final in opposition to South Africa and the World Test Championship Final, which was additionally in opposition to India.
So naturally, he soaked up the post-game scenes together with his teammates and continued the social gathering for days on finish.
Photos of the South Australian star shortly whipped round social media as followers couldn’t get sufficient of seeing him revel within the victory.
Then comes Thursday and a photograph of Head trying like he’s simply gone 12 rounds with prime Mike Tyson emerges.
The unbelievable photograph of a person who has clearly loved the previous few days whipped across the web like wildfire.
What makes the picture horrifying nevertheless is that the Aussies are set to return to the pitch on Friday morning (AEDT) for the primary of 5 T20 contests in opposition to India.
The timing of the collection has already come underneath heavy questioning, however for Head it couldn’t have landed at a worse time.
If you’ve ever handled a crippling hangover, then you already know the one factor you need to be doing is laying on the sofa with an empty schedule.
Several of Head’s teammates consider it might be a minor miracle if he had been to line up for the opening T20 conflict.
“I’m no selector or coach but if he plays that game it’ll be a miracle,” Mitch Marsh stated as he returned again in Australia on Wednesday.
The scheduling of the comparatively meaningless T20 collection straight after the World Cup has left many cricket pundits perplexed and annoyed.
Former England captain Michael Vaughan wrote on social media: “It doesn’t sit right with me that the 2 finalists 4 days later will start a T20 series against each other.
“Why can’t we allow players the chance to have a moment’s rest after a WC or whoever wins the chance to celebrate properly for a couple of weeks. It’s complete greed and overkill.”
Matthew Wade will captain Australia within the collection, which ends simply two weeks earlier than Australia takes on Pakistan in Perth within the first Test of the house summer time.
Australia vs India T20 collection
Australia vs India 1st T20 — November 24
Australia vs India 2nd T20 — November 27
Australia vs India third T20 — November 29
Australia vs India 4th T20 — December 2
Australia vs India fifth T20 — December 4
Originally printed as Image of Travis Head sums up farcical problem with Cricket Australia schedule
Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au
