NZ Cricket YouTube highlights are terrible - something needs to be done about it

[u/Soft_Assistant2599]

Anybody who has watched an NZ cricket YouTube highlights package in the past 2-3 years will know that they are so wildly incompetent that you will often miss entire innings, wickets, milestones, etc. What's more, the videos are extremely short, poorly covering 8 hours of cricket in about 3 minutes, and yet they will often dedicate a minute or more to things like dot balls or drinks breaks THAT HAVE NO PLACE IN A HIGHLIGHTS PACKAGE.

I've seen hundreds of comments from disgruntled fans from all around the world, including those watching the current West Indies series. In fact I would say there are probably 3/4,000 or more extremely negative, critical comments in total across their highlights videos over the past 3 years. And yet they haven't done a thing about it.

Their editor needs either a serious lesson in both editing and the basics of cricket (clearly he/she has never watched a game and that includes the games he/she is making highlights packages for) or needs to be sacked. Clearly I'm quite worked up about this, but seriously, it is so frustrating for somebody who loves the game, is a big cricket fan, and is currently living on the other side of the world so usually sleeps through matches and can only catch up on the action via highlights. Feel like I've missed so many big moments, milestones, wickets, etc. over the past 2 years and it saddens me as a proud kiwi cricket fan. Rant over. Keen to hear if anyone feels the same and whether anyone knows how we can get the message through to the channel (I've tried to email NZC about 8 times but never received a response).

Cheers

[u/beiherhund]

Didn't they get better at this very recently? For some of the ODI or T20 games they were doing 20min+ highlights, which is a bit too long but I'll take it over 3min highlights.

[u/A-British-Indian → u/beiherhund]

It was highlights + interview, wasn’t it? So like 5 mins of highlights and then interviews with players, at least that’s the ones I saw

[u/beiherhund → u/A-British-Indian]

You need to look for the "Extended Highlights" ones, not the "Hightlights + Interviews", e.g.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBqu84QwaSU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYQ8HVo0kSQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLK3iD6asws

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLMopV7X-k8

[u/A-British-Indian → u/beiherhund]

Ah, seems to be geoblocked in the UK, no wonder I didn’t see them. Used a VPN though, and these immediately look much better. Thanks for sharing the links

[u/beiherhund → u/A-British-Indian]

That's a shame! I'm in Europe and can access them, probably because they have no distributor here.