Is this up there with England's win at Headingly in 1981 in terms of a seemingly impossible victory? England had less to bowl at and, if I remember right, scored a load of runs with their last wicket partnership. A remarkable victory none the less.
Nah, not really - England were at 500 to 1 and the question wasn't whether Australia would win, because they surely would, but whether they would actually bat again. That was an impossible victory - and it had a huge, huge aspect of luck to it. Especially Botham's innings - he played a superb chanceless innings later that summer, but he was extremely lucky at Headingly. Botham had even booked out of his hotel room at the start of the fourth day - even he thought it would be over very early on that day.
Australia's victory today was a great one, but it was against a very inexperienced Pakistan side. The Aussie side of '81 boasted several all-time greats of Ashes contests.
The greatest Australian victory against Pakistan in recent years in terms of an impossible comeback was in 1999 in Tasmania where we got up from an impossible situation against a great bowling attack (including Akram) when Gilchrist and Langer hit super centuries. Certainly that was a better win than today's one.
