Pune: Australia set the target of 441 runs for India in the first match of four Tests series and the host India kept losing wickets at regular intervals as O’Keefe spun the bowl again in the second innings of the match.
Murali Vijay was the first one to fell to O’Keefe and was followed Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane as he caught the Indian batting line.
This is O’Keefe’s best Test haul. His best figures were 3/53 in an inning before this and he had a maximum of four wickets in a match.
O’Keefe, who picked up 6 for 35 in the first innings, added to his figures in the second innings with another six wickets as India were bowled out for 107 in the second innings.
Kohli misjudged the line of a ball and saw his off-stump knocked over while Ajinkya Rahane played an uppish drive straight to Lyon at covers.
Ravichandran Ashwin was O’Keefe’s fourth wicket, adjudged leg-before wicket, while Wriddhiman Saha was caught right in front of the stumps that included the left-arm spinner’s second five-wicket haul in the match.
O’Keefe went to tea with figures of 5 for 33 and came back and dismissed Cheteshwar Pujara who was LBW right after the break.
Out of the six top-order batsmen to fall, O’Keefe picked up five wickets and is the man responsible for putting the visitors for the lead of 1-0 in the series.