Know more about Shane Shillingford, who wrecked Indian innings at Eden

New Delhi: In the ongoing test match at Kolkata's Eden Gardens, Indian bowlers restricted West Indies to 234 on first day. India closed day one without losing any wicket, but by the start of the Day 2, Caribbean right-arm off-break bowler Shane Shillingford started giving blows to India.With Shikhar Dhawan his first victim for the day, Shillingford amazed every Indian batsmen. Even master blaster Sachin Tendulkar's wicket fell on the spinner's delivery.Shane's pre-lunch session's stats were really impressive taking 4 wickets for 55 runs in his 19 overs with 7 maidens. .Shane Shellingford's international test match stats is also quite impressive with 52 wickets in just 11 matches. Shillingford debuted for West Indies test side on 10 June 2010 in the home series against South Africa and played in three matches in that series. Shane then went to Sri Lanka with the 2010–11 West Indies team and took five wickets in his first test match of the tour. Four in the first innings left the Sri Lankan batting line up collapse and prompted follow-on. But things went wrong for Shillingford as on 20 November 2010 just after his debut international match umpires Asad Rauf, Richard Kettleborough and Steve Davis reported Shillingford for a suspect action. It was discovered that Shillingford bent his arm by 17 degrees while bowling, interpreting his action as illegal and on 21 December 2010 the International Cricket Council suspended him from bowling in international cricket till the time he rectifies his action.After the news broke out that Shillingford could not bowl in international cricket, he was dropped from the Windward Islands' squad for the 2010–11 Caribbean Twenty20. Shane was sent to the Sagicor High Performance Centre to rectify his bowling action for three months. After clearing the bowling test in May 2011, it was pronounced that Shillingford's action was legal and he would be allowed to start bowling again in international cricket.Shillingford returned to the West Indies side, and in September 2011 he was inducted in the Test squad to tour Bangladesh, though he warmed the bench in the series.The 2011/12 season manifested Shillingford's come back to the Winward Islands' squad after rectifying his action. Shane took 38 wickets from just five first-class matches was marked the equal third-highest tally in the Regional Four Day Competition. After the tournament finished, Australia toured the West Indies and Shillingford was called back in the squad for the second Test in April 2012. In the series on his home soil, Shillington took six wickets in the first innings and four in the second, making him the first West Indian spinner to take ten wickets in a test since Lance Gibbs in 1966.He then dropped from the squad when Windies toured England in May 2012 cause of the reason that Shane had problems while gripping the ball in cold weather conditions.Now he is playing in the India-West Indies series and troubling Indian batsmen with his confusing deliveries making batsman play each and every ball.

Know more about Shane Shillingford, who wrecked Indian innings at Eden

New Delhi: In the ongoing test match at Kolkata's Eden Gardens, Indian bowlers restricted West Indies to 234 on first day. India closed day one without losing any wicket, but by the start of the

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