Renowned cricket coach Ramakant Achrekar, who died due to age-related ailments, was cremated on Thursday with his most famous ward Sachin Tendulkar in attendance for a tearful adieu.
Achrekar, the childhood coach of Tendulkar, passed away at 87 on Wednesday at his Shivaji Park residence in Dadar in Central Mumbai.
His body was kept at Shivaji Park, where he coached aspiring cricketers, and then taken to a nearby crematorium. When the body was taken outside the ground, young boys, who practice there, gave a guard of honour amid chants of ‘Amar Rahe’.
Tendulkar, along with Achrekar’s other wards like Vinod Kambli, Balwinder Singh Sandhu and Chandrakant Pandit, took part in the procession to the crematorium, where his body was consigned to flames.
Former Rajasthan coach Pradeep Sundaram, office-bearers of the Mumbai Cricket Association, veteran cricket administrator Prof. Ratnakar Shetty also paid their last respects.
