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Head admitted that there seems to be no debating the utter dominance that the Men in Blue have established in the white-ball format in recent years, hailing them as the 'strongest team' in the world. India’s dominance with the white-ball has been an undeniable fact — having secured back-to-back ICC trophies with the T20 World Cup in 2024, and the Champions Trophy in 2025 — one that Australia batter Travis Head admits to sheepishly. The dynamite opener, and the notorious so-called ‘kryptonite’ of the Indian cricket team, Head has most definitely scripted memorable moments galore across formats, especially against India.
From his scintillating centuries in the World Test Championship final and the ODI World Cup final in 2023, to his trailblazing outings in the latest Border-Gavaskar Trophy, Head has been nightmare fuel for Indians. Yet, the World Cup winner admitted that there seems to be no debating the utter dominance that the Men in Blue have established in the white-ball format in recent years, hailing them as the ‘strongest team’ in the world. “They’ve always been the strongest team.
I feel like that’s the games that you want to play well in. You want to play well against the best team. They’re going to consistently be the best team.
It won’t stop. They’ll probably continually be playing in the finals of ICC events," Head stated in an exclusive interview with CricketNext . “I guess when you get to that stage in an event—if you look past the last four—we’ve played them in two of those finals, and then they’ve played in the last two and won.
And we’ve been fortunate enough to play well in a couple of those finals." Australia — and Head’s — best outing against the Men in Blue in the white-ball format was back in 2023, when Pat Cummins and co. silenced a jam-packed Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad to clinch the ODI World Cup.
But, since the disastrous final, India went on a path of destruction and domination, especially in the white-ball format, and have since then touted themselves to be the team to beat. But for Head, it’s always just yet another game of cricket when he faces off against the Men in Blue: a team he has a reputation of tortuuring with the bat across all formats. “They’ve been the best team.
I think sometimes you go out there with that naïve attitude that there’s nothing that can go wrong, really. We win and it’s amazing. We lose, and it’s probably expected because of how strong they’ve been.
I’ve always gone into those games with no real expectations, no real pressure. It’s just another game of cricket," Head expounded. “Unfortunately for India, good or bad, there’s a lot of pressure.
I think as an opposition, you can feed off a little bit, and that brings you motivation, knowing that there is a lot of pressure in that change room to bring home trophies. It’s expected, much like Australia." Watch this space for the full interview, coming up soon!.
