46-597: Eden Gardens is an international cricket stadium in Kolkata , India . Established in 1864, it is the oldest and second-largest cricket stadium in India and third-largest in the world . The stadium currently has a capacity of 68,000. It is owned and operated by Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) and is the home ground of the Kolkata Knight Riders . It houses the headquarters of Cricket Association of Bengal. Eden Gardens
92-526: A World Cup final . The 2016 ICC World Twenty20 final was held at the stadium, with the West Indies beating England in a closely fought encounter. Eden Gardens witnessed a record crowd of 110,564 in the 1996 India Vs Sri Lanka Cricket World Cup Semi Final. The stadium was established in 1864. The origins of its name are uncertain. According to some, the stadium is named after the Eden Gardens park where it
138-425: A substitute fielder ), 13 players were used in each team's squad for the matches – 11 of whom were allowed to field at one time and 11 of whom were allowed to bat (meaning players could be swapped in and out when fielding or bowling, but two players did not bat in a match). In official ICC matches match referees are required to help officiate a game, but due to the changes in the rules none were appointed for any of
184-758: A co-host, Pakistan proposed to host its allocated games in the United Arab Emirates as a neutral venue. They had played matches in Abu Dhabi , Dubai , and Sharjah in the preceding months. On 28 April 2009, however, the ICC announced that matches originally intended to be played in Pakistan would be reallocated. As a result, India hosted 29 matches across eight venues, including the final and one semi-final; Sri Lanka hosted 12 matches at three venues, including one semi-final; and Bangladesh hosted 8 matches at two grounds, as well as
230-417: A match between India and England. The match was moved to Bangalore. The World Cup has grown as a media event with each tournament. The ICC sold the broadcasting rights for the 2011 event to ESPN Star Sports and Star Cricket for around US$ 2 billion. For the first time, the tournament was broadcast in high-definition format, and it was to be covered by at least 27 cameras using recent technology. It
276-513: A peak of 21.44% at the end of the game, thus beating the semi-final between India and Pakistan , which had an estimated 11.74% TV rating in India for the whole match. The official event ambassador was Sachin Tendulkar . The official song of the 2011 Cricket World Cup has three versions, in Bengali , Hindi and Sinhala , corresponding to the three host countries. " De Ghuma Ke " (Swing It Hard)
322-622: A prize money of US$ 3 million and US$ 1.5 million for runner-up, with the ICC deciding to double the total allocation for the tournament to US$ 8.01 million. The winning team was also awarded a replica of the Cricket World Cup Trophy , a practice that originated in 1999. The decision was taken at the ICC Board meeting which was held in Dubai on 20 April 2010. All the Indian stadiums for
368-471: A revised format for the 2011 World Cup, identical to that of the 1996 World Cup , except that there would be 14 teams instead of 12. The first round of the tournament would consist of two groups of seven teams. Each team in a group would play all the others once, and the top four from each group would qualify for the quarter-finals. This ensured that every team would play at least six matches. As per ICC regulations, all 10 full members automatically qualify for
414-417: A semi-final). The stadium hosted 5 T20I matches during 2016 ICC World Twenty20 . The stadium hosted 2 Women's Cricket World Cup matches - one each in 1978 and 1997 and one Women T20I match during the 2016 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament. Eden Gardens has hosted 4 finals (1987 ODI CWC, 2016 T20I, 1997 Women's CWC and 2016 Women's T20I) and 2 semi-finals (1996 ODI CWC, 2023 ODI CWC). Eden Gardens
460-642: A young elephant, was the official mascot for the 2011 Cricket World Cup. He was unveiled at a function in Colombo , Sri Lanka, on 2 April 2010, and his name was revealed on 2 August 2010 after an online competition conducted by the ICC in the last week of July. The opening ceremony was held in the Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 17 February 2011, two days before the first match. The 2011 Cricket World Cup winning team would be taking home
506-531: Is located, itself named after the Eden sisters, Emily and Fanny, of Lord Auckland , the Governor-General of India (1836–1842). Initially named the 'Auckland Circus Gardens', the park was renamed to the 'Eden Gardens' in 1841. However, according to popular culture, Babu Rajchandra Das, the zamindar (landlord) of Janbazar, Kolkata and husband of Rani Rashmoni , gifted one of his biggest gardens, Mar Bagan, besides
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#1732858890312552-518: Is named after former Chief Minister of West Bengal Dr. B. C. Roy . The stadium's capacity was expanded to 100,000 from 40,000 for the 1987 World Cup. The expansion also included renovations to the press area. 42 columns were added to provide the support for large roofs and multi-tiered covered stands. Even after the renovation, not all seats were covered, and many sections lacked individual seats. However, match day attendance of more than 100,000 spectators has been recorded on at least 6 occasions until
598-510: Is often referred to as home of Indian cricket and has also been described as "cricket's answer to the Colosseum " and called the " Mecca of Indian cricket ", due to it being the first purpose-built ground for the sport. Eden Gardens has hosted matches in major international competitions including the World Cup , World Twenty20 and Asia Cup . In 1987, Eden Gardens became the second stadium to host
644-461: Is the Hindi version, composed by the trio of Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy . It employs an array of Indian rhythms combined with elements of rock and hip hop . The Sinhala version, " Sinha Udaane ", was adapted by Sri Lankan R&B and hip hop artist Ranidu Lankage and composed by lyricist Shehan Galahitiyawa. Both songs were performed at the opening ceremony. "Sinha Udaane" was performed by Lankage. Stumpy,
690-623: The 2007 World Cup , which may have influenced the vote. However, I. S. Bindra, chairman of the Monitoring Committee of the Asian bid, said that their promise of extra profits of around US$ 400 million had been decisive, that there "was no quid pro quo for their support", and that playing the West Indies had "nothing to do with the World Cup bid". Late in 2007, the four host nations agreed on
736-416: The 2015 World Cup and that Australia and New Zealand host the 2011 event, but this option did not find favour with their co-hosts and was not implemented. On 11 April 2005, PCB chairman Shahryar Khan announced an agreement on the allocation of games, under which India would host the final, Pakistan and Sri Lanka the semi-finals, and Bangladesh the opening ceremony. After being stripped of its status as
782-687: The Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur , Dhaka. Pakistan was also scheduled to be a co-host, but after the 2009's terrorist attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team in Lahore , the ICC cancelled that, and the headquarters of the organising committee, originally in Lahore, was transferred to Mumbai . Pakistan was to have held 14 matches, including one semi-final. Eight of the games (including
828-544: The Asian bid had weakened its prospects, but when the time came to vote, Asia won the hosting rights by ten votes to three. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has revealed that the vote of the West Indies Cricket Board was decisive, as the Asian bid had the support of South Africa and Zimbabwe as well as the four bidding countries. The Pakistani newspaper Dawn reported that the Asian countries had promised to hold fund-raising events for West Indian cricket during
874-577: The India versus Uruguay football match in 1984 Nehru Cup . 16 people were killed in a stampede and riot inside Eden Gardens during a Mohun Bagan-East Bengal Calcutta Football League (CFL) match on 16 August 1980. The stadium is the headquarters of the Cricket Association of Bengal . Apart from international matches, the stadium hosts the Bengal cricket team and the Kolkata Knight Riders , an Indian Premier League franchise. The stadium's Club House
920-483: The Queens Sports Club. ^8 – Hosted the first Day-Night Test match on 27 November 2015. List of number of grounds by country up to 28 November 2024 (Test 2564): Specific General 2011 Cricket World Cup The 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup was the tenth Cricket World Cup . It was played in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, while the latter hosted World Cup matches for the first time. India won
966-475: The West Indies. Australia New Zealand South Africa Pakistan India England Sri Lanka West Indies Each country chose a 30-member preliminary squad, which would then be reduced to 15. All the 14 teams announced their final squads before 19 January 2011. Sachin Tendulkar of India played in his sixth consecutive world cup, equalling the record of Javed Miandad (PAK). The following 14 warm-up matches were played before
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#17328588903121012-506: The World Cup started, between 12 February and 18 February 2011. All 14 nations that were qualified to take part in the World Cup participated in a series of matches to prepare, experiment with different tactics and to help them acclimatise to conditions in the Indian Subcontinent . The warm-up matches were not classified as One Day Internationals by the ICC, despite sharing some of main features of this form of cricket , but some of
1058-661: The World Cup, including Zimbabwe who have given up their Test playing status until the standard of their team improves. The ICC also organised a qualifying tournament in South Africa to determine the four associate teams who would participate in the 2011 event. Ireland , who had been the best performing associate nation since the last World Cup, won the tournament, beating Canada in the final . The Netherlands and Kenya also qualified by virtue of finishing third and fourth respectively. All 4 associates kept their ODI status as well as Scotland who this time failed to qualify for
1104-451: The World Cup. The following 14 teams qualified for the final tournament. In April 2009, the ICC announced that Pakistan had lost its right to co-host the 2011 World Cup because of concerns about the "uncertain security situation" in the country, especially in the aftermath of the 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national cricket team in Lahore . The PCB estimated that this would lose them $ 10.5 million. This figure took account only of
1150-488: The early 2000s. Eden Gardens underwent renovation for the 2011 Cricket World Cup . Renovation had been undertaken to meet the standards set by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for the 2011 World Cup. The Cricket Association of Bengal hired a consortium of Philadelphia-based Burt Hill Architects and Ahmedabad-based VMS architecture firms for a two-year project to renovate the stadium. The plans for
1196-517: The fees of $ 750,000 per match guaranteed by the ICC. The overall loss to the PCB and the Pakistani economy were expected to be much greater. On 9 April 2009, PCB chairman Ijaz Butt revealed that they had issued a legal notice to oppose ICC's decision. The ICC, however, claimed that the PCB was still a co-host, and that they had only relocated the matches out of Pakistan. Pakistan proposed that South Asia host
1242-427: The final did not feature Australia . Fourteen national cricket teams took part in this tournament, including 10 full members and four associate members of the International Cricket Council (ICC). The opening ceremony was held on 17 February 2011 at Bangabandhu National Stadium , Dhaka , and the tournament was played between 19 February and 2 April. The first match was played between India and Bangladesh at
1288-527: The highest wartime military decoration in India while Col Nair and Havildar Dada are Ashok Chakra - the highest peacetime military decoration. Eden Gardens is renowned for its large and passionate crowds. Former Aussie captain Steve Waugh considers the Eden Gardens as ' Lord's of the subcontinent'. Dileep Vengsarkar called Eden Gardens as the second best after Lords. Former Indian Captain and Kolkata-native Sourav Ganguly confessed once in an interview that
1334-1193: The incomplete renovations, the ICC withdrew the India vs. England match from the Eden Gardens. This match, scheduled on 27 February 2011, was played in Bengaluru at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium . The stadium hosted the remaining three scheduled World Cup 2011 Matches on 15, 18 and 20 March 2011. In the last of these three matches (Kenya vs Zimbabwe), the stadium had the lowest ticket-purchasing crowd in its recorded history with 15 spectators having bought tickets. Eden Gardens stands have been named after prominent local cricketers and soldiers. On 22 January 2017, two stands were named after Indian cricketers - Sourav Ganguly and Pankaj Roy while two more were named after cricket administrators - BN Dutt ( BCCI President 1988 to 1990) and Jagmohan Dalmiya (BCCI President 2001–04, 2013 - interim, 2015). Dalmiya served as ICC President from 1997 to 2000. On 27 April 2017, 4 stands were named after Indian soldiers - Colonel Neelakantan Jayachandran Nair , Havildar Hangpan Dada , Lieutenant Colonel Dhan Singh Thapa and Subedar Joginder Singh Sahnan . LC Thapa and Subedar Singh are Param Vir Chakra awardees -
1380-436: The only teams to win both of their warm-up games, while Australia , Canada , Kenya and Zimbabwe did not win either of their fixtures. As of 2007, none of the warm-up games were officially recognised as ODIs or List A matches by the ICC due to various changes in the rules of the game, and this continued into the 2011 World Cup. While normally only 11 players are allowed to bat and field (excluding situations involving
1426-505: The opening ceremony on 17 February 2011. On 1 June 2010, the first tranche of tickets were put on sale after a meeting of the tournament's Central Organising Committee in Mumbai. The cheapest tickets cost 20 US cents in Sri Lanka. In January 2011, the ICC declared the Eden Gardens ground in Kolkata , India, to be unfit and unlikely to be complete by 27 February, when it was scheduled to host
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1472-982: The order in which they were first used as a venue for a men's Test cricket match. The list excludes World Series Cricket venues and women's Test venues. On 8 July 2009, Sophia Gardens in Cardiff became the 100th Test venue. The Stormont cricket ground in Belfast became the 123rd and most recent Test venue when it staged a match between Ireland and Zimbabwe in July 2024 . Last updated on 28 November 2024 (Test 2564): ^1 – 22 Tests from 1896 to 1939; not used for first-class cricket since 1946; redeveloped as Johannesburg Railway Station . ^2 – Staged only one Test; not used for cricket since 1973; home ground of Sheffield United F.C. ^3 – 4 Tests from 1910 to 1921; not used for first-class cricket since 1922; demolished. ^4 – Staged two Tests, one in 1928 and
1518-559: The other in 1931; not used for first-class cricket since 1931. ^5 – 6 Tests from 1948 to 1954; not used for first-class cricket since 1956; now used only for rugby union . ^6 – First used by Pakistan for 8 Tests, later for 9 Tests by Bangladesh, including the inaugural home Test for both sides, on 1 January 1955 and 10 November 2000 respectively. Used exclusively for football since March 2005. ^7 – Staged only one Test in 1992; subsequent Tests in Bulawayo played at
1564-416: The playing regulations were different from standard internationals in order to allow teams to experiment. For example, the main change allowed for thirteen different players to play in a match – nine players being allowed to both bat and bowl, with two only being able to bowl and two only being able to bat – instead of the eleven players normally allowed. England , India , Sri Lanka and South Africa were
1610-431: The renovated stadium included a new clubhouse and players' facilities, upgrades of the exterior walls to give the stadium a new look, cladding the existing roof structure with a new metal skin, new/upgraded patron amenities & signage and general infrastructure improvements. The upgrade also meant reduction of the seating capacity to about 68,000 from around 94,000 before the upgrade. Due to unsafe conditions arising from
1656-541: The river Hooghly , to Lord Auckland and his sister Emily Eden in gratitude for their help in saving his third daughter from a fatal disease. The garden was then renamed to the Eden Gardens. The cricket grounds were built between Babughat and Fort William . The stadium is in the B. B. D. Bagh area of the city, near the State Secretariat and across from the Calcutta High Court . The first Test match at
1702-770: The roar of crowd at the stadium he heard when India defeated Australia in the Second Test of 2000–01 Border–Gavaskar Trophy was the loudest he had ever heard. In 2016, a bell was added to the stadium to ring in the start of day's play for test cricket and start of match for ODI & T20I matches. Kapil Dev was the first person to ring the bell to start the test match between India and New Zealand in September 2016. Eden Gardens has hosted 15 Cricket World Cup matches hosted in India across formats and men's and women's cricket. Eden Gardens has hosted 11 Cricket World Cup matches in 1987 (2), 1996 (1), 2011 (3) and 2023 (5, including
1748-417: The semi-final) were awarded to India, four to Sri Lanka, and two to Bangladesh. The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced on 30 April 2006 which countries would host the 2011 World Cup. Australia and New Zealand had also bid for the tournament; if successful, they would have shared the hosting equally, leaving the location of the final still to be decided. The Trans–Tasman bid, Beyond Boundaries ,
1794-640: The tournament had been finalised by mid-October 2009, and those of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in late October 2009. The ICC announced all the venues in Mumbai on 2 November 2009. Two new stadiums were constructed in Kandy and Sooriyawewa , Sri Lanka, for the event. The umpire selection panel selected 18 umpires excluding a reserve umpire, Enamul Haque ( Bangladesh ) to officiate at the World Cup: five from Australia, three from England, two each from India, New Zealand, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and one each from South Africa and
1840-513: The tournament, defeating Sri Lanka by six wickets in the final at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai , thus becoming the first country to win the Cricket World Cup final on home soil. India's Yuvraj Singh was declared as the player of the tournament. This was the first time in World Cup history that two Asian teams had appeared in the final. It was also the first time since the 1992 World Cup that
1886-410: The venue was held in 1934 between England and India , its first One Day International in 1987 between India and Pakistan and its first T20 international in 2011 between India and England. The 1993 Hero Cup semi-final featuring India and South Africa was the first day/night match . The stadium also hosted matches of the inaugural edition of Nehru Cup in 1982. The Eden Gardens also hosted
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1932-523: The warm-up games. The top four teams from each group qualified for the quarter-finals (indicated in green). The top four teams from each group qualified for the Quarter finals (indicated in green). The final was played on 2 April between India and Sri Lanka at Wankhede Stadium , Mumbai . India were crowned champions after winning by six wickets with only 10 balls remaining. India captain MS Dhoni
1978-501: Was also planned to be shown across platforms such as online and mobile 3G. It was the first time that an ICC event had the Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS). The final was watched live by 135 million people in India, as recorded by the ratings agencies TAM and aMap , including 67.6 million Indian cable and satellite viewers. The final was watched by 13.6% of Indian TV-equipped households on average, with
2024-577: Was meant to host a Group B Match between India and England on 27 February 2011. The ICC, however, stripped the stadium of the match after deciding that the renovation of the grounds would not be completed in time. ( as on 16 November 2023 ) Cricket stadium One hundred and twenty-three grounds have hosted men's Test cricket since the first officially recognised Test match between Australia and England in Melbourne in March 1877. The grounds are listed in
2070-401: Was named man of the match after an unbeaten, match-winning innings of 91 runs off 79 balls, including the final shot that won the game. Gautam Gambhir contributed with a crucial knock of 97 after India lost early wickets. After the match, the Indian players paid tribute to Sachin Tendulkar , who was playing in his last World Cup. The final had a viewership of about 558 million people all over
2116-415: Was the only one delivered to the ICC headquarters in Dubai before the 1 March deadline, but the Asian bidders were granted an extension by the ICC. The New Zealand government had given assurance that Zimbabwe would be allowed to compete in the tournament, following political discussions in the country over whether their cricket team should be allowed to tour Zimbabwe in 2005 . The extra time needed for
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