THEY say you know a wicketkeeper has had a good game when you don’t even notice they’re out there.

For the most part of the recently completed third Test between Australia and New Zealand at the Adelaide Oval, that was the case for the home side’s Peter Nevill. He was busy with the bat and smooth with the gloves, underlying just why he was the right man to replace Brad Haddin behind the stumps.

And in a first for Test cricket — the inaugural day-night game with a pink ball — Nevill was responsible for adding yet another record to an already historic occasion.

Scoring an accomplished 66 from number seven in Australia’s first innings, the 30-year-old probably didn’t think he would end up being the match’s top scorer, particularly at a ground used to seeing massive individual and team totals.

But top score he did, and as a result, he now has a place in cricket history. Nevill’s 66 was the lowest ever top score in a Test match at the Adelaide Oval. The previous record was held by Doug Ring, who top scored with 67 against the West Indies in 1951.

Batting records have been broken at will in this series. David Warner grabbed a slew of them in Perth while Ross Taylor racked up the highest score ever by a visiting batsman on Australian shores, so it’s a bizarre binary to have someone who’s batting feats are being recognised because they’re so, well, unspectacular.

Nevill’s half century was 13 runs better than the next best score in the match — captain Steve Smith’s 53, also scored in Australia’s first innings. He combined with tail-enders Nathan Lyon and Mitchell Starc to put on 108 for the last two wickets, an effort that rescued Australia from dire straits to a position of superiority in the match.

Those extra runs proved crucial as the Aussies finished the innings with a 22-run lead. They later chased down a fourth innings target of 187 with three wickets in hand after restricting the Kiwis to 208 in their second dig, giving them a 2-0 series win.

Nevill averages 27.3 after seven Tests and has 28 catches and a stumping to his name — the latter another first achieved in Adelaide when he stumped Mitchell Santner off Nathan Lyon’s bowling.

One more rare occurrence to come out of Adelaide was the fact no team passed 250 in the match — the first time this has happened in a Test match in the city for 131 years.

A ground accustomed to hosting mammoth scores in the first innings before the pitch starts to deteriorate on days four and five, this time the Adelaide wicket had a lot more grass on it — a move designed to protect the state of the new pink ball.

This extra grass and the added swing and seam the pink ball produced, particularly during the night sessions, made life difficult for batsmen who, for the most part, failed to overcome the challenging conditions.