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Australia’s discards and rookies share Adelaide welcome
- Updated: November 21, 2016
While a few metres away Matt Renshaw and Peter Handscomb collected their bags for the very first time as Australian Test cricketers, Callum Ferguson reflected on how he had been picked and discarded in the space of a single week.
The scenes at Adelaide Airport – apart from the scuffle between South Africa’s support staff and an eager television reporter – reflected these strange and tumultuous times for Australian cricket. Handscomb and Matthew Wade arrived from Melbourne a few minutes before Renshaw and Usman Khawaja jetted in from Brisbane.
They were accompanied by the South Australian side that failed by 12 balls to eke out a draw against Queensland in the Sheffield Shield match at the Gabba. After the travails of the past two weeks it isn’t hard to imagine numerous figures at Cricket Australia hoping the Test team can be that competitive against South Africa this week.
The last man out at the Gabba, Chadd Sayers, wandered through the arrivals hall in an Australia team polo Ferguson had donned only a few days before. Though he had every reason to be …
