Eden Gardens Cricket Stadium - The biggest Cricket Stadium of India

The Home of Indian cricket - Eden Gardens Cricket Stadium
Eden Gardens is one of the oldest and popular cricket stadiums in all over the world. Eden Gardens is well known as top 3 cricket ground in entire cricket world including Melbourne Cricket Ground and Lords Cricket Ground. This historical cricket ground is situated in the old capital of India, Kolkata city. This cricket ground was established in the year of 1864. This cricket ground is the home of the IPL team Kolkata Knight Riders and the head office of the Cricket Association of Bengal is also located here.


2011 IPL 4 matches Schedule in Eden Gardens Cricket Stadium
Eden Gardens Cricket Stadium will host 7 home matches of Shahrukh owned IPL team KKR Kolkata Knight Riders in the upcoming 2011 IPL 4.

* Home Match 1
11th April 8:00 PM V/S Deccan Chargers DC.
* Home Match 2
20th April 8:00 PM V/S KTK Kochi Tuskers Kerala.
* Home Match 3
23rd April 4:00 PM V/S RCB Royal Challengers Bangalore.
* Home Match 4
28th April 8:00 PM V/S KXIP Kings XI Punjab.
* Home Match 5
7th May 4:00 PM V/S CSK Chennai Super Kings.
* Home Match 6
16th May 8:00 PM V/S MI Mumbai Indians.
* Home Match 7
22nd May 4:00 PM V/S RR Rajasthan Royals.

Price of Tickets for 2011 IPL 4 matches in Eden Gardens Cricket Stadium Kolkata
In Eden Gardens Cricket Stadium Kolkata 2011 IPL 4 matches tickets in cost Approx Rs200 to Rs20000.


Fact files of Eden Gardens Cricket Stadium
* This stadium is located in Binoy Badal Dinesh Bag area of the city, near the State Secretariat and the High Court in Kolkata city.
* This one of the oldest cricket stadium was established in the year of 1864.
* The sitting capacity of this stadium is Approx 90,000.
* Day/Night match facility is available in this ground.
* 2011 ICC Cricket World cup matches schedule to play in this ground.
* The First Test match was played here in 5th Jan, 1934 between India and England.
* The first ODI match was played here in 18th Feb, 1987 between India and Sri Lanka.
* Eden Gardens Cricket Stadium is the largest cricket stadium in India by seating capacity.
* Eden Gardens is one of the iconic cricket stadiums in the Cricket world.
* Eden Garden is the second biggest cricket stadium in the world, after the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Australia.
* This stadium hosted the memorable World Cup final of 1987 between Australia and England.
* In the year of 2000-01 one of the most memorable innings of the cricket was played by VVS Laxman in this ground. He scored 281 against Australia to help India to defeat Australia despite follow on. This cricket game in well known as the greatest come back game in the modern cricket history.


ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 matches Schedule for Eden Gardens Cricket Stadium
This Iconic cricket stadium of India schedule to host 3 matches of ICC Cricket World cup 2011.
*15th March at 14:30 local time Ireland v/s South Africa
*18th March at 09:30 local time Ireland v/s Netherlands
*20th March at 09:30 local time Kenya v/s Zimbabwe