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set the record for the slowest partnership for any wicket in Test history, scoring 4 runs from 178 balls/29.4 overs with a scoring run rate of just 0.13 runs per over, which is also the lowest spanning at least 100 or more balls. O'Keefe scored those four crucial runs, a boundary. After this match,
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said "Steve O'Keefe is a very good cricketer. He's taken wickets, and he's a steady batsman. Whenever we've been at the selection table, we've marginally preferred other players to him. But he's still regarded as a good cricketer. We're very aware of his figures and we do look deeper than that. But
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Over time there have been a range of reasons available on the rumour mill. He just bowls darts, some said. He's too chippy, was another explanation thrown out there. Yet another was a personality clash with an influential figure in the Australian set-up. The clash was very much true, but it being a
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It is a reward for some of the stuff he has done over the past two years. His numbers are undeniable so they obviously misread him somehow. They have been forced to pick him as he has kept putting them in the book... I think they had a perception of him that didn’t quite fit and the only way to
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O'Keefe did not play first class cricket again until November 2009. Against Tasmania he took 3–101. That summer he took 15 first class wickets at an average of 30.93, making him one of the better performing spinners in Australia. He also made 247 runs at an average of 61.75.
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O'Keefe struggled in 2011–12 only taking 9 first class wickets at an average of 52. The following summer was better – O'Keefe took 24 wickets at an average of 22.2. This made him the second highest wicket taking spinner in Australia, after
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In 2013–14 O'Keefe took 41 first class wickets at 20.43 including a best of 6–70. He finished the 2013/14 domestic Sheffield Shield season as the leading wicket taker for the NSW Blues, just edging out Western Australia's
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In 2010–11 O'Keefe took 26 first class wickets at 20.57 with a best of 4–65. This saw him discussed as an international prospect, as Australian spin stocks were thin at the time. The Australian selectors dropped
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of India, who had figures of 6/52 in both innings in 1977, coincidentally against Australia at the MCG, with O'Keefe's figures setting the record for the best identical bowling figures in Test history.
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reason for him being overlooked was only ever a theory. Whether his cause was further harmed, too, by his occasional bucking of the old-school maxim that you don't question selectors is unknown, too.
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In his final season he helped to guide the Sydney Sixers to another final. Taking 8 wickets in 9 matches, his final wicket being in a losing effort in the Big Bash Final, against the
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In 2014–15 O'Keefe took 28 first class wickets at 23.21 with a best of 5–24. He was overlooked for selection on the 2015 tours of the West Indies and England in favour of
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on 22 October 2014. He was Australian Test Cap number 439. O'Keefe took 2/107 in the first innings and 2/112 in the second, claiming
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in England, but did not play in the Tests. He made his Twenty20 international debut during the England tour. In the lead-up to the
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change that perception was to take wickets. He has fought against a perception and broken it down. This should be his reward.
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following an alcohol-fueled incident in April 2017, in which he was reported to have made 'highly inappropriate comments' to
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In Australia's second innings of the first Test versus Sri Lanka at Pallakele in 2016, Stephen O'Keefe along with
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in November 2005. O'Keefe took 2 wickets and scored 10 runs on debut. His first scoring shot was a
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but at a much better average. He was considered a possibility as a backup spinner to Lyon on the
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there's a panel of five of us and there's a consistency of view when we select the spinners."
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O'Keefe's omission at international level was confusing to many. According to one report:
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However he was consistently overlooked in favour of other spinners. In 2013 selector
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he plays for Manly Warringah, although he originally played for Hawkesbury.
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O'Keefe was called up to the Australian Test team to replace the injured
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In April 2020, New South Wales did not renew his contract to play in the
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and Steve Smith as spinners. O'Keefe was picked to play for Australia A.
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On 24 February 2017, he took his first 5-wicket haul in a Test match,
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O'Keefe was later fined $ 20,000 and suspended from the domestic
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O'Keefe had to return home due to an injury to his hamstring.
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In 2015–16 O'Keefe took 20 first class wickets at 24.10. The
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following an incident at a Sydney hotel on 6 August 2016.
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after being issued with a criminal infringement notice by
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On 8 August 2016, Steve O'Keefe was fined $ 10,000 by
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