Maradona died on Wednesday evening due to cardio-respiratory arrest at his home in the Tigre district on the northern outskirts of Buenos Aires in Argentina.
Former India international Manoj Tiwary hit a swashbuckling 39-ball 61 as Mohun Bagan scripted a facile 17-run win over Customs in the inaugural match of the Bengal T20 Challenge.
Mohun Bagan's Writtick Chatterjee has been forced out after testing Covid positive while Rajkumar Pal has left due to his father's illness.
Three cricketers, including Abhishek Raman and Writtick Chatterjee of East Bengal and Mohun Bagan, on Friday tested positive for COVID-19.
Cricket will make its return to the hallowed Eden Gardens with the inaugural Bengal T20 Challenge involving six club teams organised by the Cricket Association of Bengal being played from November 24-December 10.
Recollecting his long association with Chatterjee who died on Sunday, former Bengal captain and national selector Sambaran Banerjee said he was a cricket fan who kept a tab on all the developments related to the game.
Rohit Sharma faced 173 balls during his marathon innings in which he smashed 33 fours and nine sixes.
The second and third ODIs against South Africa in Lucknow and Kolkata on March 15 and 18 respectively were cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
Besides the Eden Gardens, the other two grounds are JU 2nd Campus Ground at Salt Lake and Bengal Cricket Academy ground at Kalyani.
Five galleries inside the iconic Eden Gardens are turned into quarantine facilities for Kolkata Police's frontline COVID-19 warriors.
In a bid to combat COVID-19, quarantine facilities will be set up at Eden Gardens for police personnel.
The galleries at the Eden Gardens are opened up for quarantine facilities for the Kolkata Police.
The number of new COVID cases in the state has surpassed its daily records on Saturday when it touched 743, while the toll also witnessed its peak at 19.
Legendary West Indies batsman Weekes passed away at the Christ Church home on Wednesday in Barbados. He was 95.
Harbhajan Singh recalled the famous 2001 Eden Gardens Test, calling Australia 'bad losers'.
Andre Russell has said that there is no comparison to the crowd at Eden Gardens when it comes to fan support.
Eden Gardens curator Sujan Mukherjee visits the ground twice every week to oversee the maintenance work.
Veteran Eden Gardens pitch curator Sujan Mukherjee has requested the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) to donate his one month's salary to West Bengal Emergency Relief Fund.
March 15, 2020 marks the 19th anniversary of India's historic win over Australia at the Eden Gardens as the hosts surprised the world by beating the Aussies by 171 runs after being asked to follow on.
On a two-day visit in connection with his upcoming book, the Australian great was seen in a shooting spree, taking shots of the Eden Gardens as well as those of the Bengal-Ranji fixture.
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