Tag: Ramakant Achrekar

Mumbai: Thousands of people including Sachin Tendulkar and young cricketers bade a tearful adieu to legendary cricket coach Ramakant Achrekar here on Thursday. Achrekar, 87, passed away in Mumbai on Wednesday evening following a heart attack, plunging the cricket world in sorrow. Thousands paid homage to the coach as his mortal remains were consigned to […]

Mumbai: Veteran cricket coach Ramakant Achrekar, who trained Bharat Ratna Sachin Tendulkar and his friend Vinod Kambli, among others, passed away following a heart attack here on Wednesday, family sources said. He was 87 and breathed his last at his home in Dadar at around 5 p.m. Achrekar, honoured with a Padma Shri in 2010 […]

Mumbai: There were cricket coaches and then there was a Ramakant Achrekar, whose contribution was way more than gifting India a ‘kohinoor’ called Sachin Tendulkar. Achrekar, who passed away in Mumbai at the age of 87 of Wednesday, belonged to that near extinct tribe of cricket coaches, who gave quintessential talented middle-class boys hope and […]