Ramakant Achrekar

Ramakant Achrekar

Ramakant Achrekar (born 1932) is an Indian cricket coach from Mumbai (formerly Bombay). He is most famous for coaching young cricketers at Shivaji Park in Dadar, Mumbai. He has been a selector for Mumbai cricket team.

His most famous and successful pupil is Sachin Tendulkar who is India's most-capped player and leading run-scorer in both Test and ODI cricket as well as a former national captain. Other cricketers who have been under his tutelage and have gone on to represent India include Balwinder Sandhu, Chandrakant Pandit, Vinod Kambli, Pravin Amre, Ajit Agarkar, Sanjay Bangar and Ramesh Powar.

In 1990, he was honoured with the Dronacharya Award for his services to cricket coaching [http://yas.nic.in/yasroot/awards/dronacharya.htm] .

Achrekar's playing career was not as distinguished as his coaching career. He started playing cricket in 1943. In 1945 he played club cricket for New Hind Sports Club. He also played for Young Maharashtra XI, Gul Mohar Mills and Bombay Port. He played in only one first-class match for all-India State Bank against Hyderabad in the Moin-ud-Dowla tournament in 1963-64. [ISBN 978-81-7167-806-8] .

External links

* [http://www.rediff.com/sports/1998/jul/20a.htm Rediff.com - Interview with Ramakant Achrekar]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/2036119.stm BBC Sport - The breeding ground of legends]


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