Here is presented information on the Eden Gardens
cricket club of Calcutta/Kolkata, India.
Eden Gardens
Eden
garden of Kolkata, India is one of the major tourist attraction places
of the city of joy. Eden gardens is basically a cricket stadium, where
people have witnessed the history of Indian cricket. It is the oldest
cricket playground in the country and also the finest one. Calcutta Eden
Gardens Cricket Club came into existence in the year 1864. The first
ever first-class match that took place in the Eden Gardens was in
1917-18 and the first test match to be played here was in January 1934
against Douglas Jardine's MCC. It was in February 1987, when the first
ODI match was hosted here. It has undergone a tremendous modernization
and infact, today it boasts of its large accommodation that can
capaticitate about 1,20,000 persons. Eden gardens of Calcutta definitely
falls into the category of must see places.