Ramakant Achrekar is an India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 coach from Mumbai

Mumbai

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 (formerly Bombay). He is most famous for coaching young cricketers at Shivaji Park

Shivaji Park

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 in Dadar

Dadar

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, Mumbai. He has been a selector for Mumbai cricket team.

His most famous and successful pupil is Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is an Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. He is the leading run-scorer and century maker in Test and one-day international cricket. He is the only male player to score a double century in the history of ODI cricket...

 who is India's

Indian cricket team

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 most-capped player and leading run-scorer in both Test

Test cricket

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 and ODI cricket as well as a former national captain

Captain (cricket)

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. Other cricketers who have been under his tutelage and have gone on to represent India include Balwinder Sandhu

Balwinder Sandhu

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, Chandrakant Pandit

Chandrakant Pandit

Chandrakant Sitaram Pandit is a former Indian cricketer who played in 5 Tests and 36 ODIs from 1986 to 1992. After his retirement as a player, Pandit became a cricket coach, enjoying successful stints with the Mumbai cricket team.In the 1980s he was given the status of second wicketkeeper behind...

, Vinod Kambli

Vinod Kambli

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, Pravin Amre

Pravin Amre

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, Ajit Agarkar

Ajit Agarkar

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 and Sanjay Bangar

Sanjay Bangar

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.

In 1990, he was honoured with the Dronacharya Award

Dronacharya Award

Dronacharya Award is an award presented by the government of India for excellence in sports coaching. The award comprises a bronze statuette of Dronacharya, a scroll of honour and a cash component of Rs.500,000...

 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.