Delhi: Eden Gardens is the largest cricket stadium in India and the third largest cricket stadium in the world, which is also the home ground of Bengal cricket team and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). This stadium has seen some of the best cricket matches in history. This stadium is also called the maize of Indian cricket because the first cricket match was played here. The Eden Garden has hosted the World Cup, Asia Cup and many matches. It held its first IPL match on 20 April 2008 when Kolkata Knight Riders competed with Deccan Chargers.
Eden Garden Stadium Of Golden History
Kolkata’s Eden Garden is India’s highest audience capacity cricket stadium, where about 66000 spectators can enjoy the match simultaneously. More than one lakh people have joined the Eden Garden Stadium on 6 different occasions. In fact, after the renewal of 1987, it had its capacity of 94 thousand to 100000 spectators but later its capacity was reduced. This stadium was established in 1864, since then it has also been rebuilt many times. The stadium is named from the Eden Gardens, one of the oldest parks in Kolkata, adjacent to the stadium and was built in 1841, named after the Indane sisters of Lord Auckland, the then Governor General of India.
Eden Gardens Pitch Report
The pitch of the Eden Gardens is considered to be suited to batting which has good bounce and speed. The surface is usually flat and the boom is correct, which makes it very favorable to play stroke. There is a lot of runs in T20 format here. Where it has been easy to achieve the target for the batting team later. In such a situation, the teams like to bat later in view of the flat pitch.
Travel of T20 Manto in Eden Gardens, Kolkata
In Eden Gardens, the high score of IPL is 262 and the minimum score is 139. The biggest score in the Eden Gardens is 201 runs which Pakistan made against Bangladesh in 2016. The team, which chased the same target 37 times in the total 92 IPL matches played here, has managed to win 55 times.
| Total match | 92 |
| First batting team won | 37 |
| Later batting team won | 55 |
| Highest score | 262 |
| Lowest score | 139 |
Eden Garden In How? Is IPL 2025 Of Schedule
The Eden Garden has so far hosted 92 IPL matches, where this time also the IPL 2025 will start from the Eden Garden between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore. In IPL 2025, Kolkata Knight Riders have a defending champion. In such a situation, there will be a qualifier match here along with the final match. Also, Kolkata Knight Riders will have 7 home matches. In this way a total of 9 matches will be played in this ground.
Program of all matches to be held on this ground
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