Turning Heads With His Ruthless Style, The Travis Way

Travis Head has made quite a reputation for himself in the IPL and in the white-ball format as the man who literally kills a match.

- HARIDEV PUSHPARAJ

That's right. Head ensures the opposition is pummelled into submission to an extent where they have nowhere to hide and no way to mount a comeback.

Saturday night's blockbuster batting at the Arun Jaitley Stadium was a classic illustration what Head has been doing to opposition bowling attacks.

Ratcheting up his fifty in just 16 balls certainly did not break the IPL record but he had set the Sunrisers' Hyderabad up for a gargantuan total where at one point even 300 looked a realistic total.

Head's batting approach and style makes us jog our memories back to the 90s and a certain Mr Sanath Jayasuriya and his no-nonsense swagger.

Jayasuriya's explosive batting particularly in the 1996 World Cup has been a sort of template for opening lefthanded batters looking to use the long handle early on in the innings.