Travis Head Keeps Quiet on Batting Position Preferences as AUS Hunt for Opener Continues

Despite Left-handed Head being prepared to take over the opening spot, McSweeney was ultimately selected to start in the series opener.

However, he has decided not to express any desire about his batting position as he doesn't want to grab attention and make headlines.

"I don’t think it needs to be spoken about. I think it just creates too much bullsh*t really. That’s just my point of view. This happened to me the first time when I backed up a couple of mates - Marcus, Harris and a few others - who open the batting, and I come out and say ‘Yes, I do want to open the batting,’ and that creates a headline," Head told The Sydney Morning Herald.

Head said his words were twisted in the past, and doesn't want to indulge in the same conversation again as he just want to do whatever is right for the team.

"If I then say ‘no,’ which I did in support of those guys, and at that time, I had conversations where I knew I wasn’t opening the batting, so I was honest in the media. But when it was reverted around this year, it’s been ‘He never wanted it in the first place,’ which isn’t true. I want whatever is right for the team, but in the way I answered it, people interpret it in certain ways. So I’m done with talking about that conversation," he added.

Head, who opens the innings for Australia in white-ball formats, said that the batting position doesn't bother him much and is happy where the team management feels he is the best fit.

"I’ve never worried too much about where I bat, I don’t really care where I bat if I’m honest, I’m happy to bat where I best fit for the team. At the moment, it’s at five and it has been for a while. I’m playing a certain way. I’m not forcing it, and they haven’t directed me to say ‘Hey, this is the way we want you to play,' it comes naturally, and they said from the start they want me to play the way I see the game and attack the game the way I see it," he added.