A good 20 million plus Australians were of the same mind," Peter Lalor wrote from India on The Australian newspaper's website. The best part of the win, Lalor wrote, was that they beat the Indians at their own game - devilish spin bowling on a dusty, dry sub-continent wicket. "Steve O'Keefe has shattered 84 years of test history in the sub-continent to pilot Australia to one of its most famous victories," trumpeted Ben Horne in Sydney's Sunday Telegraph. Unsurprisingly, talk in the media quickly turned to where the victory ranked in the history of Australian test wins, with the Sun-Herald's Andrew Wu putting it with the greatest. "Third-innings hundreds can be casual canters: this was a monument of self-control ... His first break here was luck: winning the toss.

Source: The Star February 26, 2017 02:15 UTC