The World of New Zealand Cricket and Boating

 The World of New Zealand Cricket and Boating By Reuben Walsh

Introduction:

Cricket and boating are two very different sports but they are both one of my favorite sports. The last time the New Zealand cricket team won a cup was the 2015 world cup where they beat South Africa. And the last time the New Zealand boating team won a cup was the 2021 Americas world cup were they beat Luna Rossa (Italy) by 500 meters.

Cricket:

Cricket is a very fun sport. I mean it. If you don’t know what cricket is here's a quick video: What is Cricket? 

So now you know what cricket is. The most recent cricket world cup was in 2019 where England beat New Zealand ( The black caps )                                                                                            

By one run it was an amazing match. Cricket has been played for centuries and we go all the way back to 1844 where the first ever cricket match was played was USA vs Canada. Then Canada won by 25 runs.. Cricket has been watched by thousands, played by millions and experienced by billions of people. Cricket is a bat and ball sport with two teams with eleven players on each side. The cricket team I support is New Zealand (The Blackcaps). I am half New Zealand and half England but about 5% more English but it's weird how I like the New Zealand Cricket and Boating team more than the English Cricket and Boating team. So there you know a bit about Cricket, so now let's get into some Boating and we will talk about the America's cup.

Boating (the america’s cup)

Boating is also a fun sport to watch and play. I have just started liking boating and I already know alot about the sport. Throughout you reading about this boating booklet it will all be about the America’s cup which happens every 4 years. The last America’s cup was this year,  where New Zealand won it when they were defending it. And again if you don’t know what boating is or the America’s Cup here is a video: 

What is the America's Cup? 

So now you probably know what boating and the America’s Cup is. Like it said on the video. It has been going for 170 years since 1851 and that is a long time. America’s Cup, one of the oldest and best-known trophies in international sailing yacht competition. It was first offered as the Hundred Guinea Cup on August 20, 1851, by the Royal Yacht Squadron of Great Britain for a race around the Isle of Wight. The cup was won by the America, a 100-foot (30-metre) schooner from New York City, and subsequently became known as the America’s Cup. The American winners of the cup donated it to the New York Yacht Club in 1857 for a perpetual international challenge competition. In 1987 the San Diego Yacht Club took control of the U.S. competition. In 1983, after American yachts (sponsored by the New York Yacht Club) had successfully defended the cup 24 times without a loss since the first defense in 1870, the Australian yacht Australia II won the cup. In the next race, in 1987, the Americans (now from San Diego) regained the cup. The controversial race of 1988, between the winning American 60-foot (18-metre) catamaran and a New Zealander 132-foot (40-metre) monohull, had to be decided in the courts and provoked a redefinition of the rules governing future races. For 1992, a new and faster yacht was designated as the International America’s Cup Class (IACC)—75 feet (23 m) in overall length—to race over an eight-leg 22.6-mile (36.4-kilometre) course. The 1995 event was run over a six-leg, 18.55-nautical-mile (34.4-kilometre) course. It was won by the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron, only the second victory by a non-American challenger in the history of the competition. The skipper of the New Zealand victory in 1995 was Russell Coutts, who also led New Zealand to a win in 2000; Coutts, skippering for a Swiss team, won a third consecutive victory in 2003. In 2007 the Swiss team, with Brad Butterworth as skipper, defended its title. An American team owned by businessman Larry Ellison, Oracle Team USA, recaptured the Cup in 2010 in a two-race competition that was delayed by numerous court battles. In 2013 the U.S. had one of the most-dramatic comebacks in sporting history: the American team (captained by Jimmy Spithill and racing in a newly designed 72-foot [22-metre] catamaran) was trailing New Zealand 8–1 in a best-of-17 series and then won the remaining eight races for the most-unexpected America’s Cup victory of all time. See also yacht.  

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Since the 1920s the America’s Cup race has been between one defending vessel and one challenging vessel, both of which are determined in separate series of elimination trials. Each competing vessel must be designed, built, and, insofar as possible, outfitted solely in the country that it represents. The original terms of the America’s Cup donation imposed many disadvantages on challenging yachts. Not until 1956 was a clause eliminated that required a challenger to sail on its own bottom to the scene of the contest, forcing a heavier style of construction than that of the defender. Until 1995, the America’s Cup competition was a best four of seven races; from that year until 2007 it required five of nine races to win. From 1958 to 1987 each race was run over a six-leg 24-mile (39-kilometre) course by yachts of the so-called 12-metre class. (No measurement on the 12-metre yacht was actually 12 metres. The “12” was a result of a complicated mathematical formula used in the yacht’s construction.)

The End Hope you have now learnt about the America’s Cup and New Zealand Cricket.