| Coach finds cricket player: The result is | | | | Whoever imagined him to become the first coach of |
| discoveryCricket player finds coach: The result is | | | | a world class cricket player who would shake the |
| redemptionCoach and cricket player find each other: | | | | criket world?Sachin's brother Ajit Tendulkar felt that |
| The result is an enviable career for bothWith the | | | | this man was the right person to coach and develop |
| World cup Cricket around the corner, let us examine | | | | the potential in his brother.One thing about this coach |
| the life of Sachin Tendulkar, a world class cricket | | | | that made him come to this conclusion was the fact |
| player and his early career. Will he be a world class | | | | that he laid equal emphasis on match and net practice |
| player today, if he had not met his coach during | | | | . The coach made sure that his team were always |
| those early days? Read ahead.Sachin TendulkarIt is | | | | ready as red hot iron - playing in tournaments, one |
| of common knowledge that Sachin began his career | | | | after another through out the year.Coaches are all |
| in the international cricket at the age of 16. However, | | | | over. But what makes his coaching style unique is his |
| very less is known of the man who played the key | | | | motivation technique. From what I have researched |
| role in Sachin's Cricket career - his coach Ramakant | | | | about him, Sachin would play in various nets at a go. |
| Achrekar.According to well known sources, Sachin | | | | And when he got tired, his coach would put a rupee |
| was only 11 when his brother noticed the potential of | | | | coin on the stumps and tell the team that whoever |
| a cricket player in him. I can imagine what his brother | | | | got him out of the game would get the coin. If |
| saw - Sachin with his big bat that definitely weighed | | | | nobody did, then would sachin get the coin. (In those |
| more than those his playmates used, fierce | | | | days, a rupee had more value than it does these |
| determination between his brows, his eyes focussed | | | | days). And it worked!This coach brought the best out |
| on the ball and his hands tightly gripped around the | | | | of his student.Now, imagine that you had a coach |
| bat. As the ball draws near, he calculates its | | | | who coached you during those early days of your |
| momentum and at the split second, weilds the bat | | | | career and motivated you, just like Sachin Tendulkar. |
| with such force and power that the resultant runs | | | | Would you have been a different person with a |
| are not 1s and 2s, but 4s and 6s.He introduced Sachin | | | | different career and an altogether different life style? |
| to his coach Achrekar, who also happened to be the | | | | If your answer is YES, then it is time to find your |
| official coach of Shardashram (School well known in | | | | best Coach.Cheers!Sandhya Subramanian is an |
| inter school cricket competitions).Brief about the | | | | Executive Coach based in Abu Dhabi, UAE. She |
| coachCoach Achrekar perhaps did not become a | | | | specialises in coaching exectives to enhance their |
| world class player himself. However, he represented | | | | executive image through better communication skills |
| the State Bank of India team as the wicket-keeper | | | | with peers, superiors, subordinates, customers and |
| batsman for a long time.He was known among his | | | | the press. |
| colleagues as the Bradman of tennis ball cricket. | | | | |