 At the Basin Reserve in 1877-78 Eden took 11 wickets when Nelson beat Wellington by 85 runs.The complete bowling analyses are unavailable, but as he bowled unchanged through both innings, in which Wellington's batsmen scored only 88 runs, his match figures are likely to have been 11 for around 40 to 50.Later in his career he played as a batsman, making his highest first-class score of 25 (which was also Nelson's top score) in his last innings.