ATTN: New Zealand Cricket fans/viewers

[straw man]

And that's just half of it. Pray, straw man, do tell - who's vision switching? Who's the sound engineer as we will need commentators - you can't just have dead air or even just effects mikes? How do they get the signal back to their MCR to broadcast out to Sky viewers? Considering many of the games are in, dare I say, rural backwaters or at least minor cities, 80 percent of them won't be set up for fibre, which means they would have to cart satellites around (which can be done - we do it with half our tracks, but it still requires an extra staff member). As Southern Lad said, there's a danger issue with cameras, and static, locked-off shots are terribly, terribly bad low-grade television.

I don't mean to sound harsh, but any live broadcast quite simply isn't a cheap exercise, and I imagine the viewing numbers for Plunket Shield games most certainly wouldn't justify the outlay. More OD games? Perhaps, but again, many of them follow the summer holiday circuit.

Fair enough - I do appreciate that things are never as easy or inexpensive as they might appear to an outsider. There are plenty of obstacles as you point out and plenty more that probably haven't been thought of, however there must be ways of at least providing some sort of coverage that is bare-bones yet is still effective. Whether that would be within NZC's budget I don't know.

Even though it's not how the thread started, coverage could still be good if it is not live and is available on the internet instead of tv.

NZC appear to be already progressing on some of this with highlights of the domestic final from last year appearing on their website. Obviously I don't know what that cost them or how much fricking around was involved but it was really good to see. They could have improved it in a few ways (like showing a score overlay to give more context) and some of the camera angles were a bit odd, plus it was very difficult to find on their website and I wouldn't have known it was there except that I was sent a link. But it was still really encouraging to see.

Clearly putting videos on the internet provides no financial return to NZC, but would be an investment in the game in NZ.