Eden Gardens

Address: B.B.D. Bagh area, north of the Maidan
One of the most famous cricket grounds in the world and, in a city where cricket functions as civic religion, its cathedral. First played on in 1864, it hosted the 1987 and 2016 World Cup finals, India’s celebrated 2001 Test recovery against Australia and matches in the 2023 ODI and 2026 T20 World Cups. Now seating around 68,000, it is the home ground of Bengal cricket and the Kolkata Knight Riders; match tickets require advance booking and outside match days access is limited. The surrounding Eden Gardens proper, the original 1834 botanical gardens the stadium is named for, form a small public park with a lake and a Burmese pagoda.