and once you get there the competition is very, very fierce. Unfortunately it's not the same standard [in NZ]. Competition is everything and the only way the New Zealand guys are going to get that is to play the world's best players." Domestic competitions New Zealand Cricket operates the New Zealand cricket team, organising Test tours and One-Day Internationals with other nations. It also organises domestic cricket in New Zealand, including the Plunket Shield first-class competition, The Ford Trophy men's domestic one-day competition, the Hallyburton Johnstone Shield women's domestic one-day competition, as well as the Men's Super Smash and Women's Super Smash domestic Twenty20 competitions. Men's Teams New Zealand Cricket involves the following men's domestic teams: Auckland Aces Canterbury (known as Canterbury Kings for Twenty20) Central Stags Northern Districts (known as Northern Brave for Twenty20) Otago Volts Wellington Firebirds Women's Teams New Zealand Cricket involves the following women's domestic teams: Auckland Hearts Canterbury Magicians Central Hinds Northern Districts (known as Northern Brave for Twenty20) Otago Sparks Wellington Blaze Funding New Zealand Cricket derives most of its revenue from the sale of two types of broadcasting rights. Broadcasting rights to home internationals. A share of the broadcasting rights the ICC sells to its tournaments, such as the World Cup. Host nations pick up all the expenses of touring teams, but get sole access to all broadcast rights and gate receipts. In November 2007 it was announced that NZC had made a 5-year deal for the broadcasting rights to home internationals for NZ$65.4m with Sony Entertainment Television. The previous four-year deal between NZC and ESPN-Star was for only NZ$14.4m. Part of the 5-fold increase in value is due to the Indian team's tour of NZ in 2009. Immediately prior to the 2009 Indian tour of NZ the Sunday Star Times reported that "NZ Cricket hits $25m jackpot". The article claimed that NZ Cricket will get $1 million for each of the 22 days the Indians take the field and that NZ Cricket had insured against loss of income for the sale of TV rights due to bad weather. NZC boss Justin Vaughan also said that a tour by India generates "many times" more income than tours by Australia, South Africa and England and that the Indian tour was worth more to NZC than the payout from the Cricket World Cup, which was around $20m. The article also states that over the past