1. Travis Michael Head was born on 29 December 1993 and is an Australian international cricketer who represents the Australia national cricket team in all formats and is the current Test vice-captain.
73 Facts About Travis Head
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Travis Head captained Australia in T20Is and served as vice-captain in ODIs in 2024.
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Travis Head was a key member of the Australian team that won the 2023 ICC World Test Championship final and 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup final, having been adjudged Player of the Match in both those finals.
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Travis Head became the second player ever to score a century when batting second in a World Cup final.
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Travis Head became the first player to score centuries in two consecutive ICC tournament finals in a same calendar year.
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Travis Head made a promising start to his career with three matches for South Australia, scoring his maiden half-century in his second match and falling short of scoring his maiden century in his third match with 90 runs against Tasmania.
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Travis Head was rewarded at the end of the season with a rookie contract with South Australia.
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Travis Head went on to play 18 under-19 One Day International matches for the Australian national team, including at the 2012 Under-19 Cricket World Cup.
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Travis Head impressed with both bat and ball during the tournament, scoring 87 off 42 balls against Scotland and taking three wickets against Bangladesh in the quarter-final.
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Travis Head came close to scoring his maiden century with 95 against Western Australia.
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Travis Head subsequently played a single Twenty20 game for the Adelaide Strikers in the Big Bash League, replacing the injured Kieron Pollard in the team.
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Travis Head was one of six young Australian players to be part of the inaugural Ageas Bowl International Cricket Academy during the 2013 season, training at the ground's facilities.
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In February 2015, Travis Head was named to replace Johan Botha as the captain of South Australia, though Botha stayed with the team for the rest of the season to assist with the transition.
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Travis Head finally scored his maiden first-class century, after 17 scores of 50 or more, in a Sheffield Shield match against Western Australia to lead South Australia to a thrilling one-wicket win.
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Travis Head then scored 56 runs in the final three overs to score his century and win the match with three balls to spare, hitting Sean Abbott for three consecutive sixes in the last over.
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Travis Head's form was rewarded by national selectors when he was included in Australia's squad for a series of Twenty20 Internationals against India.
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Travis Head made his international debut during the series on Australia Day at his home ground, the Adelaide Oval.
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Travis Head led South Australia to their first Sheffield Shield final in 20 years and was named the Sheffield Shield Player of the Year, having scored 699 runs at an average of 38.83 before the final, which South Australia lost.
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Travis Head was brought into Australia's One Day International squad for the first time for a tri-series in the West Indies.
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Travis Head made his ODI debut on 13 June 2016 against the West Indies.
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Travis Head scored 175 off 139 balls in the innings while Leaning scored a century.
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Travis Head had to leave Yorkshire early when he was brought to Sri Lanka to train with Australia's Test squad and play in their ODI squad.
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Travis Head opened with David Warner and the pair scored 284 runs for the first wicket, with Head scoring 128 himself.
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Travis Head scored a century but the Redbacks ultimately lost the match.
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When limited overs opener Aaron Finch returned to form, Travis Head was dropped back to the middle order, though he remained in the Australian side for the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy.
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Travis Head signed to play for Yorkshire again in the 2017 NatWest t20 Blast, but he pulled out of the tournament when he was named the captain of the Australia A side for the 2017 South Africa A Team Tri-Series.
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Travis Head did not impress selectors, only scoring totals of 8 and 0, but he bounced back with an impressive, measured half-century against Victoria and a century against Queensland.
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When Brad Hodge left the Adelaide Strikers, Travis Head replaced him as the team's captain, adding it to his captaincy of South Australia and making him the captain of the state's highest-level team in all three formats of the game.
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In October 2021, Travis Head made his second double century, against Queensland in Adelaide, becoming the third batsman to score more than one double century in List A cricket.
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Travis Head made his Test debut for Australia against Pakistan on 7 October 2018.
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Travis Head had his baggy green cap presented to him from Nathan Lyon.
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In January 2019, Travis Head was announced as Australia's new Test vice-captain, alongside Pat Cummins ahead of the series against Sri Lanka on 24 January.
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In July 2019, Travis Head was named in Australia's squad for the 2019 Ashes series in England.
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In November 2019, Travis Head played against Pakistan in Australia, although he only batted once in the series.
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Travis Head made a century and was named player of the match in the second Test.
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On 16 July 2020, Travis Head was named in a 26-man preliminary squad of players to begin training ahead of a possible tour to England following the COVID-19 pandemic.
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In November 2020, despite being named in a 17-man squad for the Test series against India, Travis Head was demoted as Australia's Test co vice-captain, with Pat Cummins to solely deputise Tim Paine.
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Travis Head was ruled out of the fourth test in Sydney after testing positive for COVID-19.
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Travis Head returned for the fifth test in Hobart, where he made another century.
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In February 2022, Travis Head was included in the 18-man squad to tour Pakistan in March.
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Travis Head was included in the squad for the 2022 tour of Sri Lanka.
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Travis Head took two wickets in the second innings, as Australia won by 164 runs.
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Travis Head was included in the 18-man squad for the 2023 Border-Gavaskar series.
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Travis Head was named in the squads for the 2023 ICC World Test Championship final and the 2023 Ashes.
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In June 2023, Travis Head moved to number three in the ICC Test batting rankings.
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Travis Head ended the Ashes series with 362 runs, with three half-centuries.
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In January 2024, in the first Test against the West Indies in Adelaide, Travis Head scored his seventh Test century, and won the player of the match award.
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Travis Head was the leading run scorer for the series, making 448 runs from 9 innings at an average of 56.00.
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In January 2022, Travis Head was included in the 16-man squad to face Sri Lanka in a five-match T20I series; he last played white ball cricket for Australia in 2018.
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In February 2022, Travis Head was included in the white-ball squad for the Pakistan tour.
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Travis Head made 89 in the second ODI, but was dismissed for a golden duck in the final match.
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Travis Head made his T20I return in the one-off match.
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Travis Head was picked for the ODIs after injuries to several Australian players; he played in the second, third, and fourth matches, but was ruled out of the final match with a hamstring strain.
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Travis Head was selected for the ODI series in India in March 2023.
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Travis Head was picked for the limited overs series against South Africa.
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Travis Head was named in the Australian squad for the 2023 Cricket World Cup, but did not play in the tournament until Australia's match against New Zealand on 28 October, as he continued to recover from his injury.
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Travis Head scored his fourth ODI century in his first World Cup match, and won the player of the match award.
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Travis Head took 2 important wickets and scored 62 runs off 48 balls in the semi-final.
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Travis Head became only the second player to score a century in a World Cup final during a run chase after Sri Lanka's Aravinda de Silva.
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Travis Head eventually became the third Australian after Ricky Ponting and Adam Gilchrist to score a century in a World Cup final and became the only Australian to do so in a run chase batting second.
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Travis Head became the first and only player to score two centuries in men's ICC tournament finals.
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Travis Head surpassed Viv Richards record tally of 180 runs to become the most prolific runscorer in across the semi-final and final in a men's World Cup tournament with a tally of 199 runs.
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Travis Head put on a record breaking partnership of 192 runs with Marnus Labuschagne for the fourth wicket during the final, which is the highest ever partnership by a pair in a World Cup final run chase for any wicket.
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Travis Head took a stunning diving catch in the World Cup final to dismiss Indian skipper Rohit Sharma, which became a talking point and the catch taken by him turned out to be the root cause for India's dramatic slowdown in their batting approach in the final, as the dismissal of Rohit broke the early momentum India had in the first half of the batting in the final.
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Travis Head became the fourth player after Mohinder Amarnath, Aravinda de Silva and Shane Warne to receive player of the match awards in both semi-final and final during a same World Cup campaign.
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Travis Head was the third highest run scorer of the tournament, scoring 255 runs from seven innings with two half-centuries.
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In June 2024, Travis Head became the highest ranked T20I batter, according to the ICC player rankings.
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Travis Head put on a rapid 113-run partnership with Mitchell Marsh and earned the player of the match award.
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Travis Head captained Australia for the first time in T20Is, in the second match in Cardiff, in the absence of an unwell Mitchell Marsh.
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Travis Head started the tournament with a 24-ball 62 against Mumbai Indians.
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Travis Head finished the tournament as the leading run-scorer of Sunrisers Hyderabad with 567 runs.
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Travis Head was retained by the franchise for the 2025 IPL.
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Travis Head is a supporter of the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League.