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Australia's ​World Number One Test Cricket Team Is Getting Humbled And Ridiculed By Sri Lanka And Its Media

So long world number one test ranking, as Sri Lanka readies for a three-nil series whitewash

The world-beating, number-one test ranked Australian test cricket team is getting hammered by the Sri Lankan cricket team and the local media after their disgraceful second test capitulation at Galle.

Local media have labelled the current team "the worst Australian team to visit Sri Lanka" after consecutive losses to a Sri Lankan outfit led by 38 year old part-time bank clerk, Rangana Herath. Our man from the Colombo branch of the Sampath bank has been on tear, racking up a miraculous hat trick in Australia's record-low dismissal of 106 in the second test at Galle.

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Sri Lanka was ranked seventh in the world, one up above minnows Bangladesh, coming into the series and considered little chance of troubling Australia. That was before we poached their best ever cricket player and all-time leading test wicket taking spin bowler Muttiah Muralitharan, for our coaching staff. Not that it has helped, with Sri Lanka's spin attack playing havoc with Australia's batting lineup. With another dusty track predicted for the third test a historeic 3-0 series whitewash is on the cards. Win or lose Australia is likely to lose their number one test ranking.

"The present team led by Steven Smith are a confused lot and their character is so un Australian. In Galle and prior to that at Pallekele, they easily chickened out. Now they are facing the horror of a 3-0 whitewash," reported local paper, The Island, in a story titled "Worst Australian Team To Reach Our Shores."

Leading Australian batsmen David Warner responded to the criticism from local media at training today, telling reporters, "At the end of the day people have their own opinions and can say what they want. When we walk out of that change room we're giving 100% overtime we put that baggy green on."

"There's always a a lot on the line when you're playing test cricket. We gotta prove why we are where we are at the moment. We've had quite a successive amount of losses on the sub continent, so we definitely have a lot to prove," he said.

The third test begins tomorrow at 2:30pm AESTD