Hit for six: Miandad's six is metaphor for chaos and complexity

doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7454.1500-a

BMJ 2004;328:1500 (19 June), doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7454.1500-a

Letter

Hit for six

Miandad's six is metaphor for chaos and complexity

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EDITOR—Miandad's six, as analysed by Abbasi and Khan intheir short report,¹ is a metaphor that takes us beyond theboundary to new thinking. It is similar to the butterfly metaphorof chaos and complexity science: "A butterfly flapping its wingsin Texas causes a tornado in Texas." This six caused ripplesacross time and space.

Miandad at the crease, a year afterhitting the six whose analysis launched a thousand (well, 72)rapid responses

Credit: CHRIS COLE/ALLSPORT/GETTY

C L R James, whose words, "What do they know of cricket whoonly cricket know?" were paraphrased in the opening sentenceof the article, argued in his book Beyond a Boundary that cricketis an art whose structure allows variety and that it relatesto history and society.²

Cricket is a game of complexity, with non-linear and dynamicinteractions of the weather, ground conditions, selection policies(which were mentioned . . . [Full text of this article]

Vivian S Rambihar, cardiologist

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