Nevin picks up a record with more chances to come

Wellington wicket-keeper Chris Nevin has had his fair share of disappointments in the last season or two, but when he caught Pakistan opener Saleem Elahi on the first day of the match with New Zealand A, he had quiet cause for satisfaction.

The dismissal gave him the record for dismissals by a New Zealand wicket-keeper in a domestic season and with the remainder of this game, and the game for Wellington against Pakistan to come, there is a chance for Nevin to push the record out further.

It took him past the former Wellington 'keeper Ervin McSweeney, the man now running Cricket Wellington. McSweeney achieved the feat twice, in 1984/85 and 1989/90.

Nevin then had Saeed Anwar out caught, then in today's second Pakistan innings he added one more to his quota when having Yousuf Youhana caught from Andrew Penn's bowling.

"I didn't even know about the record until the Northern Districts game when someone mentioned it to me.

"Then there was that run out that was called a stumping and then called a run out again, while I took a catch at square leg which I wasn't sure whether it counted or not.

"Coupled with the scoring against Northern Districts to help win the Shell Trophy it has made it a good season.

"But my taking catches comes down to the bowlers bowling well, in the right zones and getting the edges, and our bowlers did well this year," he said.

And now there is the chance to be part of a team which beats the Pakistan tourists, with the visitors still 70 runs behind NZ A who have a second innings left tomorrow.

"After their 3-2 loss to the New Zealand team we wanted to do our bit in this game to try and keep them down. The last thing we wanted to do was let them get some good batting time and get on a high going into the Test matches," he said.