One evening, after India lost to South Africa in South Africa (it was some years ago, but as usual the batting crumbled etc) a caller called on ESPN and asked Harsha Bhogle whether it was fair to observe that Tendulkar was not as prolific a scorer in the second innings of a match as he was in the first innings. Shastri, who seems to have taken upon himself the primary role of protecting Tendulkar from adverse comments - fair or unfair - angrily suggested that the caller didn't understand cricket. I felt sorry for the caller, just thinking of how embarassing it might be for someone to suggest publicly that he didn't understand cricket. So I got curious and reached out to www.cricinfo.com where they have some fantastic statistics in a nice searchable form. I found some interesting results, and published them in an article I had titled"Arrogant Error". I was just a tad surprised as I saw that my article had made it to the home page www.rediff.com under the headline "Tendulkar's Second Innings Inconsistency". Of course Arrogant Error wasn't a saleable title. Here is the article.
http://www.rediff.com/cricket/2001/nov/07guest.htm
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