Pravin Kalyan Amre (; born 14 August 1968) is an Indian
cricket
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er who represented the
Indian cricket team
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between 1991 and 1999. He played 11
Test
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matches and 37
One Day Internationals
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(ODIs).
Domestic career
At the domestic level, Amre played for various teams such as
Mumbai
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,
Railways
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,
Rajasthan
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and
Bengal
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, while also playing in
South Africa
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for
Boland. His score of 246 for Rest of India against
Bengal
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remains the highest score by any batsman in the
Irani Trophy
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. His coach,
Ramakant Achrekar
Ramakant Vitthal Achrekar (1932 – 2 January 2019) was an Indian cricket coach from Mumbai. He was most famous for coaching young cricketers at Shivaji Park in Dadar, Mumbai, most notably Sachin Tendulkar. He had also been a selector for the ...
, who was also the coach of
Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (; ; born 24 April 1973) is an Indian former international cricketer who captained the Indian national team. He is regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. He is the all time highest run-scor ...
, had once famously claimed that he would be a better batsman than even Sachin.
International career
Amre made his
One Day International
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(ODI) debut against
South Africa
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at
Kolkata
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on 10 November 1991, scoring a 55 off 74 balls. His Test debut came against the same team at
Durban
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,
scoring a century
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which was incidentally his highest score in tests. In the event, he became the ninth India player to achieve this feat.
Pravin Amre's highest ODI score also came against South Africa when he scored an unbeaten 84 from 98 balls to lead India to victory in the 7th one day of the 1992 ODI series.
After cricket
Amre was coached by
Ramakant Achrekar
Ramakant Vitthal Achrekar (1932 – 2 January 2019) was an Indian cricket coach from Mumbai. He was most famous for coaching young cricketers at Shivaji Park in Dadar, Mumbai, most notably Sachin Tendulkar. He had also been a selector for the ...
, who also trained cricketers like
Sachin Tendulkar
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and
Vinod Kambli
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. He was the coach of the
India Under-19 Cricket Team
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The team has won the Und ...
, which won the
2012 Under-19 Cricket World Cup
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in Australia and
Mumbai cricket team
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. He was the assistant coach of
Pune Warriors India
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in the
Indian Premier League
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. He was the talent scout for the
Delhi Capitals
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in the IPL.
In July 2019, he was appointed as the batting coach of the
United States National Cricket Team
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on a short-term basis.
In January 2021, he was appointed as the assistant coach of the
Delhi Capitals
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.
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1968 births
Bengal cricketers
Boland cricketers
India One Day International cricketers
India Test cricketers
Cricketers who made a century on Test debut
Indian cricketers
Living people
Mumbai cricketers
Railways cricketers
Rajasthan cricketers
East Zone cricketers
Goa cricketers
Central Zone cricketers
Cricketers from Mumbai
Indian Premier League coaches
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Cricketers at the 1992 Cricket World Cup