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Steve O'Keefe

Steve O'Keefe
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Personal information
Full name Stephen Norman John O'Keefe
Born (1984-12-09) 9 December 1984 (age 32)
Malaysia
Nickname Sok
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox
Role All-rounder
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 439) 22 October 2014 v Pakistan
Last Test 3 January 2017 v Pakistan
T20I debut (cap 46) 6 July 2010 v Pakistan
Last T20I 16 October 2011 v South Africa
Domestic team information
Years Team
2005–present New South Wales (squad no. 72)
2011 Kochi Tuskers Kerala
2011–present Sydney Sixers
Career statistics
Competition Test T20I FC LA
Matches 4 7 65 48
Runs scored 33 32 1,864 583
Batting average 11.00 6.40 29.12 23.32
100s/50s 0/0 0/0 0/9 0/1
Top score 23 22 99 70*
Balls bowled 881 114 12,480 1,992
Wickets 14 6 222 29
Bowling average 32.78 24.83 23.68 55.89
5 wickets in innings 0 0 8 0
10 wickets in match 0 n/a 2 n/a
Best bowling 3/53 3/29 7/35 3/65
Catches/stumpings 0/– 1/– 28/– 21/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 7 January 2017

Stephen Norman John O'Keefe (born 9 December 1984 in Malaysia) is an Australian cricketer and current captain of the New South Wales Sheffield Shield team.

Stephen is a spinner for the Sydney Sixers. He is also a handy batsman for the Sixers. O'Keefe picked up the first wicket for the 2016–17 Big Bash League season. Sydney Thunder opening batsmen Kurtis Patterson just lobbed it to Doug Bollinger.

O'Keefe made his First-Class debut for New South Wales against Tasmania in November 2005. O'Keefe took 2 wickets and scored 10 runs on debut. His first scoring shot was a six.

O'Keefe was called up to the Australian Test team to replace the injured Nathan Hauritz for the series against Pakistan in England, but did not play in the Tests. He made his Twenty20 international debut during the England tour.

2010 saw Stephen O'Keefe as a crucial member of the NSW Blues squads in all forms of cricket. On the eve of the 2010 Ashes series O'Keefe performed impressively taking 4/88 against a full strength English batting line up. These figures would remain the best by an Australian spinner all summer. He also top scored with the bat scoring 66 runs.

The Kochi Tuskers Kerala picked him up at the Indian Premier League auction for $20,000. In Sydney Grade Cricket he plays for Manly Warringah, although he originally played for Hawkesbury.

He finished the 2013/14 domestic Sheffield Shield season as the leading wicket taker with 41 wickets for the NSW Blues, just edging out Western Australia's Jason Behrendorff.


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