NEW DELHI: Australian batter Travis Head's scintillating ... of 378/6 at the time of writing. Head's approach to batting is different from the conventional techniques most often taught, yet ...

It's not often you'd hear a top-quality batter use the word "ugly" to describe their own batting. But there's an unmistakably raw honesty to everything Travis Head does. You see it in the way he bats.

Image: Travis Head ... one in Hobart Travis Head led the way with a superb counter-attacking century as Australia recovered from 12-3 on a gripping first day of the fifth Ashes Test in Hobart.

Travis Head missed the first four league-stage games of the World Cup due to a fractured left-hand © AFP This time last month, Travis Head was back home in Australia ...