Twitter Reactions: Sri Lanka completes their first-ever whitewash over Australia

World Champions Australia’s worrying run in the sub-continent continues as Sri Lanka completed the whitewash against Australia in the three-match Test series.

Australia was asked to chase 324 on a 5th-day wicket at the Colombo and it was never going to be easy on a track which had a lot of assistance for the spinners. Veteran left-arm spinner Rangana Herath continued his wicket hunt in the second innings as he finished with 7 wickets in the innings after Australia had a decent partnership for the opening wicket.

The openers David Warner and Shaun Marsh added 77 runs for the first wicket. Warner, who found his first 50 plus score in the series was aggressive in the innings punishing any error in line and length.Century scorer of the first innings, Marsh fell for 23 in the last over before lunch.

Century scorer of the first innings, Marsh fell for 23 in the last over before lunch. Australian skipper Steve Smith was the next to go, who tried to cut an arm ball from Herath. Australia slipped from 100 for 1 to all out for 160 runs. David Warner remained as the top scorer in the innings with a 94-ball 68.

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Herath finished with bowling figures of 18.1-3-64-7 and he got good assistance from Dilruwan Perera, who claimed 2 wickets. Overall, Herath has a total of 13 wickets in the match. He also finished as the leading wicket-taker of the series with 28 wickets, followed by Mitchell Starc of Australia with 24 wickets. Herath was undoubtedly adjudged as the player of the match as well as the player of the series.

Here is how Twitter reacted to Sri Lanka’s first ever whitewash over Australia:

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— cricket.com.au (@CricketAus) August 17, 2016

What a win. Well done Fordie @Angelo69Mathews @sanath07 greatest achievement in our test history. So very proud of the team Young but strong

— Kumar Sangakkara (@KumarSanga2) August 17, 2016

Sri Lanka whitewashed Australia for the first time. The Islanders had won just 1 test vs Kangaroos before this series. #SLvAUS #CricketStats

— Shahzad Tirmizi Syed (@shahzadtirmizi) August 17, 2016

Most wickets for Sri Lanka in a Test series vs Australia:
28 Muralitharan in 2004,
28 Rangana Herath in 2016.#SLvAUS #CricketStats

— Shahzad Tirmizi Syed (@shahzadtirmizi) August 17, 2016

The brass band just played Happy Birthday to Kusal Perera during the lap of honour. Not a bad day. #SLvAus

— Geoff Lemon Sport (@GeoffLemonSport) August 17, 2016

Sri Lanka move up one place to number-six in the Test rankings after their 3-0 win over Australia, India is the new number-one ranked team.

— Island Cricket (@IslandCricket) August 17, 2016

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Australia's runs per wicket this series. Wowsers. #SLvAUS pic.twitter.com/yPnBqYayB8

— Alex Brown (@AlexBrown77) August 17, 2016

13 times spinners took 14 or more wickets in a test match and 6 times opposition was Australia!#SLvAUS

— Farhan Nisar (@farhanwrites) August 17, 2016

Series whitewash is special! Doing it against the number 1 team in the world is even more special.. Well done lads and the staff?? #SLvAUS

— Farveez Maharoof (@farveezmaharoof) August 17, 2016

Out of 60 Australian wickets that fell in the series, 54 were taken by the spinners- that's the most in a three-match series ever !#SLvAUS

— Rajneesh Gupta (@rgcricket) August 17, 2016

If @HerathRSL was English he would be knighted. I am so glad he is Sri Lankan. He deserves the highest credit and recognition. Great man

— Kumar Sangakkara (@KumarSanga2) August 17, 2016

#AUS in subcontinent: LLL LLL LLL
(added the space bars to save you the effort of counting)#SLvAUS

— Abhishek Mukherjee (@ovshake42) August 17, 2016

Small island beats big island.#SLvAUS

— Gaurav Sethi (@BoredCricket) August 17, 2016

Australia's last 3 Test series in Asia:
Whitewashed 4-0 by India
Whitewashed 2-0 by Pakistan
Whitewashed 3-0 by Sri Lanka#SLvAUS

— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) August 17, 2016

We always talk about the big void Mahela and Sanga left. Wonder what'll happen when Rangana Herath hangs his boots. Champion stuff! #SLvAUS

— Sidhant Maheshwari (@msidhant) August 17, 2016