India won the Cricket World Cup 2011 !

Despite my pessimism, I believed that India would win the Cricket World Cup and it did! But, that was like giving up one entire quality (Do they call Pessimism a quality or something else?) of mine just for one Cricket Game! So, my search for an unlikely reason that made India win started.

Now where in the scientific world would I find something related to the occurrence of something due to a totally random thing? The answer struck me right away - Chaos Theory.

Wikipedia says that :

Chaos theory is a field of study in applied mathematics, with applications in several disciplines including physics, economics, biology, and philosophy. Chaos theory studies the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions; an effect which is popularly referred to as the butterfly effect

There is surprisingly a vast amount of plain English for a Wikipedia article! But, after I read about it in another place, it said Chaos Theory was a study of the underlying pattern in apparently unordered data.

If you had seen Dasavatharam, a film that shows hints about the "Butterfly Effect". A conventional example for the Butterfly Effect would be : butterfly flaps its wings, slightly changes atmosphere wind pressure or something like that and finally this evolves into a reason for unleashing a tornado on a country or prevents the formation of one.

So, since Dhoni was the captain (I don't have anything against him or something), I thought "India won the 2011 Cricket World Cup because a baby was born on 7 July, 1981 in Ranchi"

Pretty lame and I don't know if it obeys the rules of Chaos Theory to be an example of Butterfly Effect or something...

Still, Something is better than Nothing!