Australia started the day needing 399 runs from 98 overs if they were to claim an unlikely victory.

In the second half, despite playing with 10 men, Barton's team-mates achieved an unlikely 4-3 victory.

The unlikely victory was dubbed by fans and the media the Miracle in Montreal.

Her most unlikely victory came at the 2004 World Indoor Championships.

The final ball was slightly better - a wide - gifting Essex an unlikely victory.

Now it had the biggest and unlikeliest victory of all.

Within months of leaving her village, she led her force to an unlikely victory at Orleans.

It was an unlikely victory spurred on by an unlikely cast.

Her unlikely victory has a special resonance in an era when everything seems stacked against blue-collar workers.

Her unlikely victory in Xalapa left some dubious, others joyous and many ambivalent.