Steve O'Keefe claims five wickets to give New South Wales Sheffield Shield win over South Australia Steve O'Keefe celebrates the wicket of Callum Ferguson for a duck. DISCARDED Test spinner Steve O'Keefe has guided New South Wales to a 168-run Shield victory over South Australia. Chasing 330 to win, South Australia lost 7-52 and was dismissed for a disappointing 161 under lights at the Adelaide Oval. O'Keefe turned the game with his tweakers to take 5-24 from 25 nagging overs on Tuesday's final day. Test paceman Mitchell Starc (3-53) captured SA's most prized scalps - Test hopeful Phil Hughes, who topscored with 69, and in-form Tom Cooper for a duck. O'Keefe was dropped after making his Test debut against Pakistan in Dubai last month. Steve O'Keefe celebrates the wicket of Ferguson for a duck. But the 29-year-old can do no more than his last-gasp heroics which humbled the Redbacks. O'Keefe started SA's slide after openers Hughes and Andrew McDonald put on 79 runs - albeit with great dashes of fortune. Both batsmen were gifted lives as the Blues blew three chances in one Gurinder Sandhu over. Hughes, on three, nicked a Sandhu ball between wicketkeeper and first slip for four. Next ball, he clipped a full delivery to Nick Larkin at square leg, who dropped the simple catch. And on the last ball of Sandhu's over, McDonald, on five, edged to Daniel Hughes at second slip only for the fielder to turf a sitter. The blunders appeared costly as Hughes and McDonald then set about the run chase with relish - until O'Keefe turned the tide. Callum Ferguson walks from the field having been dismissed for a duck. The left-armer trapped McDonald lbw for 30, though replays showed the ball slipping down the leg-side. He soon claimed Callum Ferguson for a 17-ball duck. Starc, bowling with venom on a supposedly lifeless pitch, continued SA's woes by collecting Cooper and then Hughes, who was caught behind attempting a cavalier cut shot. SA continued to slump and the Blues had 37 overs to collect the final two wickets - and almost needed them all. There were just 27 deliveries remaining when Starc outed a stubborn Tim Ludeman, who soaked up 136 balls in making 17, to complete the victory. Originally published as O'Keefe spins Blues to victory