Eden Gardens T20 Records: Kolkata IPL Records, Highest Innings Totals and Successful Run Chase

Indian Premier League will return to Kolkata just over 10 months after the city had hosted a couple of playoff matches last season. Having said that, as far as hosting home matches for Kolkata Knight Riders is concerned, Eden Gardens will get to do the same after a long four-year hiatus.

It will be after the same amount of time that KKR will be hosting Royal Challengers Bangalore here. As far as their head-to-head records at this venue are concerned, the hosts have maintained a narrow 6-4 lead against the visitors over the years.

Since 2008, Knight Riders have won 45 and lost 29 out of their 74 home matches. Royal Challengers, on the other hand, have won five and lost six out of their 11 matches at this stadium in the past. Bangalore (8.69), however, have a better average run rate than Kolkata (8.31) here.

Eden Gardens T20 Records (updated)

Understandably so, highest T20 run-scorers at the Eden Gardens have all played for this franchise at some point in time of their careers. They are Gautam Gambhir (1,408), Robin Uthappa (1,160), Yusuf Pathan (871), Manoj Tiwary (841) and Dinesh Karthik (754).

Barring Karthik, neither of the remaining four is part of IPL 2023 squads. Speaking of active IPL cricketers, Andre Russell (703), Manish Pandey (655), Rohit Sharma (604), Shubman Gill (545), Nitish Rana (526) and Virat Kohli (492) are the best batters here.

Having also played for Kolkata during the course of their respective careers, the likes of Sunil Narine (58), Piyush Chawla (41), Russell (31), Kuldeep Yadav (24) and Shakib Al Hasan (21) have been the highest T20 wicket-takers at this venue.

Kolkata IPL Records (updated)

Among active cricketers, highest run-scorers in IPL matches played at this iconic stadium are Russell (702), Karthik (630), Pandey (591), Rana (526) and Rohit Sharma (466).

As far as bowlers are concerned, highest IPL wicket-takers in Kolkata are the same as mentioned above with the difference of a wicket or two between Russell and Yadav’s T20 and IPL wickets in this city.

Highest Innings Totals in Kolkata T20s (updated)

Score	Overs	Team	Opposition	Year
235/3	20	Uttar Pradesh	Bengal	2018
232/2	20	Kolkata Knight Riders	Mumbai Indians	2019
228/4	20	Sunrisers Hyderabad	Kolkata Knight Riders	2023
225/4	20	Punjab	Karnataka	2022
218/4	20	Kolkata Knight Riders	Kings XI Punjab	2019

Eden Gardens, which has hosted 137 Men’s T20s thus far, has been witness to a total of 18 innings totals that have exceeded the 200-run mark.

Kings XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings) hold the record for the highest successful run-chase at this venue on the back of sealing a 201-run target with 8 wickets and 10 balls remaining in the match 13 years ago.