Photos from Eden Garden

Here are some photos of Eden Garden Cricket Stadium India, which has lose to host 4 scheduled match of ICC World Cup 2011.

Match going on, picture before the construction for world cup is carried on.

Upgrading construction, before less than 1 month to host the world cup match.

Cricketer who died in 2010. (3)

Eric William Thomas Tindill (18/12/1910 to 01/08/2010) 

Eric Tindill played from New Zealand, he was the one among the seven person to play both cricket and rugby for his country. He just played 5 Test matches with just 73 runs in total and 69 first class match, with 6 centuries and 12 half centuries. His first Test match was against England in 26th june 1937 the last was also against England in 25th March, 1947. He played as an wicket keeper batsman.

Interestingly, he also umpired in 1 Test match and he was only the person who played and umpired both test cricket and rugby match for New Zealand.

Cricketer who died in 2010. (2)

Ronald Arthur Hamence (25/11/1915–24/03/2010) was a cricketer who played for South Australia (SA) and Australia. A short and compact right-handed batsman, Hamence excelled in getting forward to drive and had an array of attractive back foot strokes. Already the youngest Australian to play district cricket, he was also, from the death of Bill Brown in 2008 until his own death in 2010, the oldest surviving Australian Test cricketer.

While Hamence only played three Test matches for his national team, he had a successful domestic career, being called South Australia's most successful batsman in 1950. He played 99 first-class matches from 1935 until 1951, which brought him a career total of 5,285 runs that came at an average of 37.75 runs per innings and included 11 centuries. He scored two of these centuries in his first and last first-class matches.

Cricketer who died in 2010.

Sir Alec Bedser: Legendary fast bowler, regarded as one of the greatest English cricketers of the 20th century, died at the age of 91 after a brief illness on April 4. Born just 10 minutes after his twin Eric (died 2006), they were inseparable serving together with distinction in the RAF during World War II after being evacuated from Dunkirk and went onto play together at Surrey. Unlike his twin, Alec, who turned down a promotion in the war so he could remain with his brother, enjoyed a splendid international career taking 236 wickets in 51 test matches for England in a career that lasted from 1949 to 1960.