am Bays wrote:Ferguson's dropping, IMO, is as much due to the fact he failed in the subsequent shield round bat-off, the one where Handscomb and Renshaw cashed in.
In both those innings he looked shot and horribly out of form (chasing balls, playing away from his body). Out of form technically and mentally.
Whilst i think you are correct, it cant have been easy for Ferguson to go back to SS and make runs with it sitting in the back of his mind - there was more pressure on him to perform than anyone else during that round of matches... He never got any sort of support treatment afforded to Maddison - might've been a different result if he was told he was safe for the next test, go back and spend time in the middle in the Shield game.