Buenos Aires Cricket & Rugby Club Founded prior to December 8, 1864

Buenos Aires Cricket & Rugby Club Founded prior to December 8, 1864

Having to summarize more than 145 years of rich history in just a few lines is, as well as complicated, disrespectful.now WHAT`S NEW IN PSL 2018 AND NEW PLAYERS IN PESHAWAR ZALMI 2018 has been announced. It is very easy to fall into the cold summary, in the simple chronicle of events, in the story without details and without being able to describe and highlight all of them who have collaborated throughout all these years to ensure that the Buenos Aires Cricket & Rugby Club can maintain the honorable place it occupies in the history of sports in our country.

The true history of the Institution begins, according to data of the date, in 1831. Nevertheless, the month of December of 1864 is taken capriciously as historical date. This is due to the loss of much documentation of the club in a fire in the middle of the last century. While it is well known that the club, in some of its forms, existed long before that year.

On November 5, 1831, the British Packet newspaper, published in Buenos Aires, contained an article that referred to a cricket match played near the Iglesia del Pilar. There was installed a tent with a flag of the Buenos Aires Cricket Club - predecessor of today's BACRC. For those in need of historical information, that day the winner was the Nadal and Isla team thanks to a better ticket.

On December 8, 1864, the playing fields of the Buenos Aires Cricket Club were officially inaugurated in the Parque 3 de Febrero - in the forests of Palermo, exactly where the Planetarium is located today. That day, the club defeated the team of the British warship Bombay for 85 runs to 31. By then, the club had 60 members who paid an annual fee of $ 200 (impossible to determine how much that would represent today).

Those courts in the forests of Palermo would live almost eighty-four years of incessant and fruitful sporting activity. These were government lands ceded to the club, which at the beginning of the 50's - coincided with a government that cut ties with everything that had a British or oligarchical tinge, and with the fire of the clubhouse (even today many argue that it was intentional ) - They must have been returned.

With the departure of the club, an important sheet of Argentine sports was closed. It was on these grounds that they played, for the first time, sports such as cricket, rugby, tennis, field hockey and bowls. The Argentine society owes the club an even greater share of gratitude if it is considered that in the old facilities of the club football was played for the first time - thus beginning a national passion.

While playing cricket, on May 25, 1867, the Buenos Aires Cricket Club decided to play a football match in the neighborhood of La Boca. The bad weather intervened and the meeting had to be postponed, finally playing on June 26, between club members. It is worth then the recognition: the first football match played in this country was in our club between two teams of partners of our club, captained by Thomas Hogg and Walter Head. With the successful completion of this game, the Buenos Aires Football Club was officially founded on August 9.

The Buenos Aires Cricket and the Buenos Aires Football Club were two independent institutions. Even so, they were always twinned. Both clubs shared the facilities - the calendars did not overlap, since cricket was played in summer and rugby-football in winter. Several were also partners of the two institutions.