Batter Travis Head says Australia have “a fair bit to work through” with his role and their batting line-up for the second Test in Brisbane. <\/p>\n
Head was promoted to open in the first game in Perth with Usman Khawaja struggling with back spasms.<\/p>\n
The left-hander responded with a swashbuckling century – the second-fastest in Ashes history – to set up the an eight-wicket win.<\/p>\n
It has prompted debate that Head should do the role permanently or whether Josh Inglis, the spare batter in Australia’s squad, could do it or replace Head in the middle order. <\/p>\n
“I’m preparing for anything at this stage,” said Head.<\/p>\n
“There’s a fair bit to work through. But I’ve just got here [in Brisbane] and we haven’t had many conversations in the last week. It’s about spending some time out of the game, as much as you can.<\/p>\n
“I feel I can play in any role, so I’m open to (opening), and it’s just trying to work out in-game and in moments when you may use that. <\/p>\n
“But I think all options are on the table and have been for a long period of time, about where the team can potentially get better and where there’s opportunities to potentially win games of cricket in moments. I think it’s always been on the table.<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old said he thought batting orders are “slightly overrated”. <\/p>\n
“But the traditionalists will say that’s how it’s got to be,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It’s ever evolving and we’ll see where we get to.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Batter Travis Head says Australia have “a fair bit to work through” with his role and their batting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-318831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}