World Cup-bound Australia have been given a real hiding in Lahore, bamboozled by Pakistan's spinners as they crumbled to a whopping 90-run defeat and a T20I series capitulation.
Just hours after their squad for the World Cup in India and Sri Lanka was announced, Mitch Marsh's side, featuring nine of the Cup crew and looking desperately in need of their absent big guns, simply couldn't cope with the hosts' five-pronged spin armoury on Saturday.
Losing the three-match series after just the second game was hardly the way Marsh would have wanted them to warm up for the tournament which starts for the Aussies against Ireland in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo in 11 days time.