He was most famous for coaching young cricketers at Shivaji Park in Dadar, Mumbai, most notably Sachin Tendulkar.

He also won the Dronacharya Award in 1990 and Padma Shri in 2010 Ramakant Vitthal Achrekar was born in 1932.

He played in only one first-class cricket match, for State Bank of India against Hyderabad in the Moin-ud-Dowlah Gold Cup Tournament in 1963.

He coached and nurtured numerous cricketers, including the Test players Sachin Tendulkar, Ajit Agarkar, Chandrakant Pandit, Vinod Kambli, Ramesh Powar and Pravin Amre.

Sachin was asked to bat again in some time and without Achrekar's trained eyes scrutinizing him, he was at ease.