"Everyone wrote us off and expected India to win 4-0," a smiling Smith told reporters after Australia had eased to a stunning 333-run victory within three days on Saturday. O'Keefe alone matched Ashwin and Jadeja's combined haul over both innings as he and off-spinner Nathan Lyon took all 10 Indian wickets to fall on Saturday. The world's second-ranked side strengthened their hand by recruiting ex-England spinner Monty Panesar and former India spinning all-rounder Sridharan Sriram to work with their slow bowlers. "I'd been working in the nets with some other variations, just changing the seam angle and arm angle," O'Keefe said on Friday. With the 20-year-old Renshaw's opening partner David Warner also due a big score, Australia will head to Bengaluru confident of being able to answer every question posed by the hosts.

Source: bd News24 February 26, 2017 11:53 UTC