BAN vs NED: Record of minimum audience made in Eden! Less than 15 thousand fans came
BAN vs NED: If a few thousand people from Bangladesh had not come to Kolkata to watch the match, perhaps the stadium would not have been filled even 10 percent. Bangladesh supporters are known for drawing huge crowds to their team's matches in cricket stadiums across the world but they failed in this important match. The thing to note is that despite it being a weekend, even the cricket lovers of Kolkata did not come to watch the match.
The Eden Gardens Stadium, which is always packed with spectators, looked empty during the Bangladesh-Netherlands match on Saturday. This huge cricket stadium in Asia with a capacity of 66,000 spectators could not gather even 15,000 spectators.
If a few thousand people from Bangladesh had not come to Kolkata to watch the match, perhaps the stadium would not have been filled even 10 percent. Bangladesh supporters are known for drawing huge crowds to their team's matches in cricket stadiums around the world, but they failed in this important match.
The thing to note is that despite it being a weekend, even the cricket lovers of Kolkata did not come to watch the match. The main reason for this is being said to be the match between two foreign teams, although, during the 2011 World Cup, such a small crowd was not seen in the matches held here between South Africa-Ireland and Netherlands-Ireland.
This is the same stadium where a record crowd of 1,10,564 spectators gathered in the semi-final match between India and Sri Lanka during the 1996 World Cup. Talking about India's match, the lowest number of spectators at Eden was seen in the fifth and final match of the bilateral ODI series between India and England in October 2011, when only 20,000 people reached the stadium. However, the Bengal Cricket Association has expressed hope of a good crowd in the upcoming matches to be held at Eden.
