Sports in West Bengal

Cricket and football are the most popular sports in the Indian state of West Bengal.

[4][5] As mostly in India, cricket is immensely popular among the masses of west Bengal.

[6] Eden gardens is also the home for the East Zone and Bengal Cricket team.

It also houses the Indian Premier League team Kolkata Knight Riders bought by Shah Rukh Khan which uses Eden gardens as its home turf.

[8] Outside Great Britain the Royal Calcutta Golf Club is the oldest of its kind.