b555 Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 Ramakant Achrekar, the coach who shaped Sachin Tendulkar into a modern day great, turned 79 on Saturday. A secret which he kept to himself about Tendulkar became public during the birthday celebration function. During Achrekar's visit to Dubai to conduct a coaching camp, the Dronacharya awardee told Gulf News that the secret behind Tendulkar's success is his huge hunger for runs. What he deliberately hid was the incident of a slap that he once gave Tendulkar, who was his most favourite student, realise the importance of hard work which developed his hunger for runs. This incident which Achrekar kept as a secret for years was made public by Tendulkar itself during the birthday function at the Maharashtra Cricket Association office in Bandra. Narrating the incident Tendulkar said: "After finishing school, I used to hurry to my aunt's place for lunch. By that time, Sir (Achrekar) used to organise matches for me. He used to tell the opposition that I'd be batting at number four. One day, instead of playing a match, I joined a friend at the Wankhede Stadium to watch the Shardashram English-medium boys take on the Shardashram Marathi-medium boys in the Harris Shield final and cheer our team." Achrekar was also at the Wankhede stadium and Tendulkar went to greet him. "We spotted Sir and went to greet him. He knew I'd missed the match, but he still asked me how I performed in it. I told him I thought that I'd skip the match in order to cheer for our team. I got a tight slap on my face. The tiffin box in my hand flew and all its contents spread across," Tendulkar said. Achrekar told the stunned Tendulkar: "You don't have to be here to cheer others. Play in such a way that others cheer you.' Tendulkar went on to say: "Since that day, I began practicing very hard and put in a lot of hours. If not for that day, I might have been cheering others from the stands," he said. Tendulkar also narrated how Achrekar never asked him to jog across the Shivaji Park ground before the start of practice but used to tell him after the training session and when he was totally exhausted to run in full gear with bat and pads. "Years later, I realised how much that running with the gear helped me." http://gulfnews.com/sport/cricket/the-slap-that-changed-sachin-tendulkar-s-career-1.943960
achilles Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 Sheer brilliance from the master. We all have such moments in life. He made his count.
achilles Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 ^ For a second I thought you were Bheem and I couldn't believe your response.
Sachin=GOD Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 :rofl: and another one joins the league of extraordinary gentlemen :winky:
bulbul Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 if not for that slap we wouldnt have Bradman vs Tendulkar Mega serials ...:winky: but seriously what gurantee he shouldnt have become great not for that slap?
bulbul Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 Who is/was flopdulkar? are Bans handed just for names now a days?
Vijay.Sharma Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 That seemed like the torturous training that the Abbot used to put San Te on in the 36th Chamber of Shaolin!
akshayxyz Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 In certain other country, he would have sued millions out of the 'abusive' coach.
Sid Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 WTF who was this flopdulkar,kab aaya kab gaya pata hi nahi chala.
akshayxyz Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 if not for that slap we wouldnt have Bradman vs Tendulkar Mega serials ...:winky: but seriously what gurantee he shouldnt have become great not for that slap? then there would have been some other turning point. Of course there is no guarantee, and its not just one slap there are many other 'stars' that align together towards the making of legends. Such "turning point" type of moments happen in each every one of our lives, and ask anyone who made good use of those moments, almost all of them will agree - it changed their lives drastically from what it would have been w/o it. I also learnt from few slaps/punishments to myself (and watching my elder brother getting even more).., but - however dramatic/"me-too" it may sound - even I had one such standout key slap (from my mother), that changed my attitude towards studies and hence life afterwards - so significantly that I can't imagine what/where I would have been w/o that event...or you can say, I clearly see, life would have been extremely different w/o that key moment. Also, such slaps are most life defining if they come very early in life.. once your hormones start flowing you become immune, and later it has to come to something drastic as cancer/aids/"near death experience" to change life drastically.
akshayxyz Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 WTF who was this flopdulkar' date='kab aaya kab gaya pata hi nahi chala.[/quote'] I am 99.99% sure, it was some duplicate id of anti-fanatic-fanatic.
nikred Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 I am 99.99% sure' date=' it was some duplicate id of anti-fanatic-fanatic.[/quote'] Yea, that's poster named Thind who joined way back in Nov 2007 but has only 24 posts. :blink:
Vijay.Sharma Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 then there would have been some other turning point. Of course there is no guarantee, and its not just one slap there are many other 'stars' that align together towards the making of legends. Such "turning point" type of moments happen in each every one of our lives, and ask anyone who made good use of those moments, almost all of them will agree - it changed their lives drastically from what it would have been w/o it. I also learnt from few slaps/punishments to myself (and watching my elder brother getting even more).., but - however dramatic/"me-too" it may sound - even I had one such standout key slap (from my mother), that changed my attitude towards studies and hence life afterwards - so significantly that I can't imagine what/where I would have been w/o that event...or you can say, I clearly see, life would have been extremely different w/o that key moment.I know what you mean and I can relate to it totally. Although the incident I am going to relate does not include a slap or anything like that it is the sheer credence that my teachers associated with me that changed my life. I was in my 10th and I was pretty decent with my grades and would usually stand in the top 3. This was during the first "Unit Tests" of my 10th standard and just like everyone else I used to copy. I copied in all subjects and the last test was of Kannada in which I was very weak. I used to sit on the first bench right under the teacher's nose and would keep my bag on my lap and had a book open to copy from. Our English teacher was doing the invigilation. She suspected something fishy (she couldn't quite believe that I would copy so didn't know how to react) and asked me to keep my bag down because I didn't look comfy. I said, no no ma'am I am ok and continued copying. After a few minutes she caught me and opened my bag and saw my Kannada notes open. Man the shame I felt when I looked into her eyes and saw her disbelief was quite something. But it was the incident a couple days later that changed it for me. One of my close pals was also the best at Hindi and was a fave of our Hindi teacher. She asked him in confidence whether I copied in other subjects (it was well known in the school that I was very weak at Kannada so probably they thought it was out of desperation that I copied). My friend told her that I didnt although I did. She believed it and felt at ease. None of my teachers thought anything ill of me. The big clincher was when my Kannada teacher cut my marks only for the two questions that my English teacher caught me at! Ever since that day I have never copied in any exams including university even while I was doing badly and knew that one question here and there could help me clear the exam. Not even took help in practical exams of programming in BCS. Even though the walls in the classrooms would be painted with formulas and theorems during the exams (lol!) I never looked at them "accidentally" either. I felt that if my teachers felt I was good enough honestly then why did I need to copy. As it turned out I topped my school in the tenth boards and I owe it to my teachers for that smallest of "achievements"
akshayxyz Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 Yea' date=' that's poster named Thind who joined way back in [b']Nov 2007 but has only 24 posts. :blink: Now I am 99.9999% sure that "Thind" is dupe id of some other more active member of 'liberation army'.
akshayxyz Posted December 5, 2011 Posted December 5, 2011 Ever since that day I have never copied in any exams including university even while I was doing badly and knew that one question here and there could help me clear the exam. Not even took help in practical exams of programming in BCS. Even though the walls in the classrooms would be painted with formulas and theorems during the exams (lol!) I never looked at them "accidentally" either. I felt that if my teachers felt I was good enough honestly then why did I need to copy. As it turned out I topped my school in the tenth boards and I owe it to my teachers for that smallest of "achievements" For me its other way round - my slap-moment came in class 5th - literal slap, I scored 2/10 in first class test of maths - and my mother gave me a tight slap... that moment I vowed not lose even a single mark. It was so significant change in attitude that I jumped from being a happy-go-lucky ~10th in the section to never out of top 2-3 in the whole class (top - if you exclude eng/hindi/social). And to top it, that momentum continued till entrance exams - without any tutoring/coaching at all. But... come the college, 2/3 year onwards, I did some outrageous cheating/copying stints - now I can't imagine how I pulled them off - and never got caught, even though many other folks kept getting 'F' for cheating. So - from a padhaku school ka bachcha transformed to a total haramkhor at college. tab saala kisi ne thappad nahi maara :((...as if I would have listened.
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