a bloody insignificant victory in an insignificant minority sport

Beating the best in the world is normally as significant as you get in sport.

Minority sport. Hmmm. Britian, NZ, Australia, SA, West Indies= A small sport.

And India, Pakistan, Bangledesh ( total Pop ~1,380 million).

If it's a minority sport, I think only soccer, Golf and basketball would class as major ones.