{"id":51635,"date":"2019-01-03T11:12:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T11:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=51635"},"modified":"2019-01-03T11:12:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T11:12:15","slug":"sachin-tendulkars-coach-ramakant-achrekar-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/sachin-tendulkars-coach-ramakant-achrekar-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Sachin Tendulkar\u2019s coach Ramakant Achrekar passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ramakant Achrekar, the celebrated cricket coach credited for discovering Sachin Tendulkar, died Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He was 87 and, according to a family member, had been battling old age-related ailments for the past few days. \u201cHe is no more with us. He passed away this evening,\u201d his kin Rashmi Dalvi said.<\/p>\n<p>Achrekar competed in just one first-class match in his playing career but discovered and shaped the biggest batsman in international cricket after Sir Donald Bradman in Tendulkar.Tendulkar, who is now retired, owns almost all the batting records that were there for the taking in the game, including the highest runs in Tests and ODIs.<\/p>\n<p>Achrekar is best known for being his childhood coach and has always been acknowledged by the celebrated right-hander for the role he played in shaping his career as a child. Tendulkar was coached by Achrekar at the Shivaji Park here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSir did not say well-played to me ever, I knew Sir has taken me to have bhelpuri or paani-puri, Sir is happy, I have done something nice on the field,\u201d Tendulkar had said last year at an event while recalling Achrekar\u2019s contribution in making him the cricketer he became.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramakant Achrekar, the celebrated cricket coach credited for discovering Sachin Tendulkar, died Wednesday. He was 87 and, according to a family member, had been battling old age-related ailments for the past few days. \u201cHe is no more with us. He passed away this evening,\u201d his kin Rashmi Dalvi said. Achrekar competed in just one first-class [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51637,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51635\/revisions\/51637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}