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Head scored twin half-centuries (59 and 61) for Australia in the first Test against the West Indies and won the Player of the Match award.
Travis Head was on fire for Australia with the bat in the first Test against the West Indies, which was played from June 25 to 27 at Kensington Oval in Barbados. He scored 59 runs from 78 balls with the help of nine fours in the first innings on Wednesday (June 25) and amassed a total of 61 runs from 95 balls in the second. For his twin half-centuries in the series opener, which the Aussies won by 159 runs inside three days, Head won the Player of the Match award.
The POTM award on Friday (June 27) helped Head enter his name in the history books as he became the first player in the world to bag 10 POTM awards in WTC. Head has played 50 WTC matches so far for Australia and has scored 3196 runs.
Head won his first POTM award in WTC during the Australia-New Zealand Test played at Melbourne Cricket Ground from December 26 to 29 in 2019. In that match, the left-handed batter from South Africa scored 114 runs in the first innings and 28 in the second.
His 2nd POTM award was against England in the first Test of the 2021-22 Ashes series, which was played at The Gabba in Brisbane. He scored 152 runs from 148 balls in the first innings to help Pat Cummins's led side secure a win by 9 wickets.
In the fifth Test, Head scored a century (101) in Hobart and won his third POTM award.
Head then scored 175 and 38 (not out) runs in the Day-Night Test played against the West Indies at Adelaide Oval from December 8 to 11 in 2022 to win the POTM award and bagged the same honour in the next Test played against South Africa as well in Brisbane for scoring 92 runs.
In the WTC 2023 final played against India at The Oval, Head scored 159 runs in the first innings for Pat Cummins & Co., and it helped him win his sixth POTM award in WTC.
His next three POTM awards in WTC were against West Indies in January 2024 (Adelaide), India in December 2014 (Adelaide), and India in December 2014 (Brisbane).
In the list of players with the most POTM awards in WTC, Head is followed by Ben Stokes and Joe Root of England. Both the legendary English cricketers have won 5 POTM awards each in the WTC for the English team.
Only a total of six players—Shane Warne (17), Ricky Ponting (16), Steve Waugh (14), Steve Smith (13), Glenn McGrath (11), and Allan Border (11)—have won more POTM awards in Tests for the Baggy Greens than Head.
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First Published:
June 28, 2025, 16:06 IST
