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Eden Gardens

Cricket stadium in Kolkata, India

Not to be confused with Eden Gardens State Park, Eden Garden, or Garden of Eden.

The Eden Gardens during a Cricket World Cup 2023 group stage match

AddressGostho Paul Sarani, Maidan, B. B. D. Bagh
Kolkata, West Bengal
 India
LocationNear Maidan, B.B.D. Bagh, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Public transit Eden Gardens
Eden Gardens
Esplanade
Seating typeStadium seating
Capacity68,000 (Current)
100,000 (Planned Expansion)[1]
100,000 (1987-2010)
40,000 (before 1987)
Record attendance110,564 ( India v.  Sri Lanka in 1996 Cricket World Cup Semi-Final)
Field size
  • 66–68 meters (Square Boundaries)
  • 76–78 meters (Straight Boundaries)
  • boundary length is 66 meters on the square side and 76 meters on the straight side
  • 20.11 meters (Long Pitch)
Field shapeCircular
Acreage50 acres (0.20 km2)
SurfaceGrass
Renovated2010–11[2]
Years active1864–present
Home club
Establishment1864; 161 years ago (1864)
Owne

Overview

Along with the MCG, the Eden Gardens remains cricket's answer to the Coliseum. It first hosted a Test back in the days of India's cricketing infancy, with Douglas Jardine's team easing to victory inside four days in 1934. Since then, it has become something of a place of pilgrimage for most international cricketers, a chance to strut their stuff in front of the most passionate and vocal crowd in the game. At times though, the fervour has spilled into excess, with riots disrupting matches against the West Indies (1966-67) and Australia (1969-70), and a shameful exhibition of boorishness causing the World Cup semi-final against Sri Lanka (1996) to be called off with the visitors on the threshold of victory.

There have been other, better, times too when the verve and energy of the crowd has made it a twelfth man of sorts and stirred India's finest to great feats, none more so than that hallowed day in March 2001 when VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid set the stage for the greatest come-from-behind victory of modern times, against an Australian team poised for an unprecedented 1

Garden of Eden

Biblical garden of God

This article is about the Biblical garden. For other uses, see Garden of Eden (disambiguation).

"Terrestrial Paradise" redirects here. For the painting, see Terrestrial Paradise (Bosch).

In Abrahamic religions, the Garden of Eden (Biblical Hebrew: גַּן־עֵדֶן‎, romanized: gan-ʿĒḏen; Greek: Εδέμ; Latin: Paradisus) or Garden of God (גַּן־יְהֹוֶה‎, gan-YHWH and גַן־אֱלֹהִים‎, gan-Elohim), also called the Terrestrial Paradise, is the biblicalparadise described in Genesis 2–3 and Ezekiel 28 and 31.[1][2]

The location of Eden is described in the Book of Genesis as the source of four tributaries. Various suggestions have been made for its location:[3] at the head of the Persian Gulf, in southern Mesopotamia where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers run into the sea;[4] in Armenia, and even in Jackson County, Missouri.[5][6][7][8] Others theorize that Eden was the entire Fertile Crescent[9] or a region of "considerable s

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