Ervin McSweeney
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Ervin Bruce McSweeney is a New Zealand
cricket
er. He played 16 One Day Internationals in the 1980s in Richard Hadlee
's team but he never played in a Test
match.
McSweeney played 121 first-class
matches between 1979/80 and 1993/94 for Central Districts and Wellington as a wicketkeeper-batsman. His top score was 205*, he took 340 catches and 45 stumpings.
He later became Chief Executive of Cricket Wellington, and announced his resignation from that position on 31 August 2007.
New Zealand cricket team
The New Zealand cricket team, nicknamed the Black Caps, are the national cricket team representing New Zealand. They played their first in 1930 against England in Christchurch, New Zealand, becoming the fifth country to play Test cricket. It took the team until 1955–56 to win a Test, against the...
cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er. He played 16 One Day Internationals in the 1980s in Richard Hadlee
Richard Hadlee
Sir Richard John Hadlee, MBE is a former New Zealand cricketer who played provincial cricket for Canterbury, Nottinghamshire and Tasmania. He is the son of Walter Hadlee, and the brother of Dayle and Barry Hadlee. His former wife Karen also played international cricket for New Zealand.Hadlee was...
's team but he never played in a Test
Test cricket
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
match.
McSweeney played 121 first-class
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
matches between 1979/80 and 1993/94 for Central Districts and Wellington as a wicketkeeper-batsman. His top score was 205*, he took 340 catches and 45 stumpings.
He later became Chief Executive of Cricket Wellington, and announced his resignation from that position on 31 August 2007.