Buenos Aires Cricket & Rugby Club
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| Full name | Buenos Aires Cricket & Rugby Club |
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| Union | Unión de Rugby de Buenos Aires |
| Nickname(s) | Biei |
| Founded | 8 December 1864 |
| Location | San Fernando, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| President | Pablo Horacio Werner |
| Coach(es) |
Ignacio Fernández Lobbe Martín Mato |
| League(s) | Torneo de la URBA |
| 2016 | 3° of Reubicación B |
| Official website | |
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Buenos Aires Cricket & Rugby Club, sometimes known simply as Buenos Aires, is an Argentine sports club based in San Fernando, Buenos Aires. The club claims to be the oldest club still in existence in Argentina, according to reports of a cricket match played by the club in Recoleta, Buenos Aires, in 1831.
Likewise, the Buenos Aires FC (established in 1886 as a rugby union club exclusively and founder member of the "River Plate Rugby Championship", current Argentine Rugby Union) merged to BACC in 1951. Since then, rugby union became the main sport of the institution.
Apart from rugby and cricket, the club hosts the practise of field hockey, football and golf.
The exact date of establishment of the "Buenos Aires Cricket Club" is not clear because of the fire that destroyed most of the club's facilities and its archives. Nevertheless, there are records of a cricket match played by members of the club in the Recoleta district of Buenos Aires in 1831, where a flag with the legend "Buenos Aires Cricket Club" was displayed. That match was covered by English language newspaper The British Packet, published in Buenos Aires.
The first president of the club was British consul Frank Parish, named in 1858. In April, 1868, BACC played its first club match facing Montevideo Cricket Club (MVCC) in the city of Montevideo. BACC won by 156–124. The rematch was played in Buenos Aires in 1869, where BACC defeated Montevideo again by 174–121.
On 8 December 1864, the club officially inaugurated its game field in Parque Tres de Febrero of Palermo, Buenos Aires, where the Galileo Galilei planetarium is placed nowadays. That day BACC defeated HMS Bombay team by 85 runs to 31, just 6 days before that ship would be destroyed in a fire on the River Plate, in a freak target practice accident.
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