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Ashutosh Agashe
आशुतोष आगाशे
Ashutosh Agashe
Managing Director of the Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate
In office
1996–Incumbent
Preceded byDnyaneshwar Agashe
Personal details
Born (1972-10-21) 21 October 1972 (age 52)
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Spouse
Shalini Agashe (née Phadke)
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(m. 1997)​
Parent(s)Dnyaneshwar Agashe (father) and Rekha Gogte (mother)
Alma materBrihan Maharashtra College of Commerce under University of Pune (B.Com)
Cricket information
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium
RoleBatsman, bowler
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1996/97–1999/00Maharashtra
Career statistics
Competition FC List A
Matches 5 11
Runs scored 263 438
Batting average 2.25 5.20
100s/50s 0/0 0/0
Top score 6 7
Balls bowled 588 535
Wickets 5 10
Bowling average 50.80 40.60
5 wickets in innings 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0
Best bowling 3/20 2/26
Catches/stumpings 1/0 2/0
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 19 August 2016

Ashutosh Agashe (Marathi: आशुतोष आगाशे; IAST: Āśutoṣa Āgāśe; born 21 October 1972) is an Indian cricket player and businessman. He played the Ranji Trophy for the Maharashtra cricket team from 1996 to 1999. He has served as managing director of the Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate Ltd. since 1996.

Biography

Early life and family: 1972 – 1996

Agashe was born in Pune, Maharashtra on 21 October 1972, into an aristrocratic Chitpavan brahmin family of industrialist Dnyaneshwar Agashe of the Agashe gharana of Mangdari,[1] and wife Rekha Gogte, of the Gogte gharana of Belgaum.[2]

Through his father, Agashe is a grandson of Chandrashekhar Agashe, a nephew of Panditrao Agashe, a younger brother of Mandar Agashe,[3] of distant relation to Third Anglo-Maratha War general Bapu Gokhale,[4] musician Ashutosh Phatak,[5] historian Dinkar G. Kelkar, and scientist P. K. Kelkar.[6] Through his mother, he is a great-nephew of B. M. Gogte,[2] a descendant of the aristocratic Latey (Bhagwat) family, and of relation to Kokuyo Camlin head Dilip Dandekar, and academic Jyoti Gogte.[7][8]

Agashe graduated with a B.Com degree from the Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce.[9] He represented his college in their cricket team.[10] He married Shalini Phadke in 1997;[11] she is a maternal granddaughter of the last ruler of the Kurundwad Junior princely state from the Patwardhan Dynasty.[12]

Career in cricket: 1996 – 2000

Beginning in 1996, he played First class and List A cricket. His batting style was the right-hand bat and his bowling style was right-arm medium.[13] From 1997 to 1999, he represented his home state of Maharashtra in the Ranji Trophy and played for the Maharashtra cricket team.[14][15] He left List A cricket in 2000.[13]

Career in business: 2000 – present

Agashe had begun as a director at Brima Finance in 1994, before taking over his father as managing director at the Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate Ltd. in 1996.[16]

Beginning in 1998, under Agashe, the syndicate began marketing ayurvedic medicines, health care products, and bulk raw materials,[17] manufacturing food products and veterinary medicine,[18] promoting ayurvedic skincare products made by its sister company, Brihans Natural Products Ltd. in 2000,[19] and manufacturing alcohol-based chemicals by 2002.[20]

In 2003, he was made a selector at the Maharashtra Cricket Association (at the time, chaired by his father) which raised nepotism concerns and drew in criticism for the association.[21][22] In 2004, Agashe was part of his father's Maharashtra Cricket Association committee as a representative for the Club of Maharashtra,[23] and worked as his father's aide during the controversial elections at the Board of Control for Cricket in India, when his father was not allowed to vote as vice president of the board due to alleged factionalism.[24]

In 2005, under him, the syndicate entered a partnership with Howling Wolves Wine Group of Australia which planned to set up a wine production base in India.[25][26] Between 2004 and 2005, he was elected the chairman of Suvarna Sahakari Bank.[27] and served as chairman when the bank was put under moratorium by the Reserve Bank of India in 2006.[28] In 2007, he received the DSK Group Energy Award of 2007 for corporate implementation of energy efficiency improvement measures.[29]

In 2008, Agashe was one of the directors implicated in Suvarna Sahakari Bank's alleged scam. His parents, aunt and brother were taken under judicial custody,[30] during which time his father died in January 2009. He was subsequently released on bail that same month.[31] The bank's merger with the Indian Overseas Bank was finalised by the Reserve Bank of India later that same year.[32][33]

Since 2009, Agashe has been director at Agashe Brothers Financing Company, and since 2010, director at Baumgarten and Wallia.[34] In 2015, he conceived the Dnyaneshwar Agashe Trophy as the highest award of merit at the Poona Youth Club's annual cricket tournament, the PYC Premier League, in honor of his father.[35][36] In May 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic in India, Agashe donated oxygen concentrators to hospitals in Shreepur, Maharashtra.[37][38]

References

  1. ^ Ranade 1974, p. 70.
  2. ^ a b Kamath, M. V. (1 January 1991). The Makings of a Millionaire: A Tribute to a Living Legend, Raosaheb B.M. Gogte, Industrialist, Philanthropist & Educationist. Jaico Publishing House. p. 10.
  3. ^ Karandikar 1992, p. Illustration 20.
  4. ^ Pathak, Gangadhar (1978). Gokhale kulavr̥ttānta (in Marathi) (2nd ed.). Pune: Gokhale Kulavr̥ttānta Kāryakārī Maṇdaḷa. p. 1286. LCCN 81902590.
  5. ^ Ranade, Sadashiv (1982). Phatak Kulavruttant. Pune. p. 56.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  6. ^ Kelkar, Bhaskar; Kelkar, Govind; Kelkar, Yashwant (1993). Kelkar Kulavruttant. Thane. p. 82, 89.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. ^ Gogaṭe Kulavr̥ttānta (in Marathi) (2006 ed.). Mumbai: Gogaṭe Kulamaṇḍala. 2006. p. 532. LCCN 2012338796.
  8. ^ Barve, D. K. (1982). सागरमेघ: बा. म. ऊर्फ रावसाहेब गोगटे यांचा भैतिक व आत्मिक आविष्कार [Sagarmegh: The Physical and Spiritual Invention of B. M. "Raosaheb" Gogte] (in Marathi). Mumbai: Bombay Book Ḍepot. p. 170, 173. OCLC 12024875.
  9. ^ Agashe & Agashe 2006, p. 62.
  10. ^ Report of the Deccan Education Society, Poona, for the Year ... The Society. 1 January 1994. p. 28.
  11. ^ Barve, Vartak & Belvalkar 2002, p. 1-2, 27-28.
  12. ^ Phadke, Vitthal (1988). Chitpavan Phadke Kulavruttant (First ed.). Pune.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  13. ^ a b "Ashutosh Agashe". Cricinfo. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
  14. ^ Oracle, CricketArchives. Cricket Stats (Report). Retrieved 19 August 2016.[permanent dead link]
  15. ^ India Today. Thomson Living Media India Limited. 11 March 2017. p. 264.
  16. ^ "Howling Wolves ties up with BMSS to market wines". Business Line. 2005. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
  17. ^ "Company Overview of The Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate Limited". Bloomberg. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
  18. ^ "Zauba Corp". Retrieved 13 November 2016.
  19. ^ "Quadrant, Pune, wins Brihans Natural's Clean Comb". Agency FAQs. 11 July 2001.
  20. ^ Panda, H. (7 February 2002). Handbook On Chemical Industries (Alcohol Based). ASIA PACIFIC BUSINESS PRESS Inc. p. 279. ISBN 978-81-7833-067-9. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  21. ^ India Today International. Living Media International Limited. November 2003. p. 26.
  22. ^ Wadhwaney 2005, p. 140.
  23. ^ Korde, Rajesh (1 January 2004). "Agashe and team reinstated on MCA". Times of India.
  24. ^ "District court delivers a jolt to Agashe". Times of India. 31 October 2004.
  25. ^ Athale, Gouri (6 April 2007). "Brihans group, Australian wine co to sign JV soon". The Economic Times.
  26. ^ "Howling Wolves ties up with BMSS to market wines". Business Line. 2005. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
  27. ^ "Agashe heads Suvarna Sahakari". Times of India. 3 September 2004.
  28. ^ "Suvarna Sahakari Bank placed under moratorium". The Financial Express (India). 2006. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
  29. ^ "DSK Energy awards presented". Times of India. 21 December 2007.
  30. ^ "Agashe, others sent to judicial custody". The Times of India. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  31. ^ "Son attends funeral under police eye - Indian Express". Indian Express. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  32. ^ Thite, Dinesh (6 January 2009). "Agashe's friends had arranged for his bail". DNA.
  33. ^ "RBI okays Suvarna, IOB merger". The Times of India. 3 April 2009.
  34. ^ "Ashutosh Dnyaneshwar Agashe - Director information and companies associated with". Zauba Corp. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  35. ^ "PYC GYMKHANA". PYC Gymkhana. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
  36. ^ "Tigerschi vijaypdachi darkaali". Lokmat (in Marathi). Pune. 14 November 2017. 11. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  37. ^ "आशुतोष आगाशे श्रीपूरकरांच्या मदतीला धावले". Tarun Bharat (in Marathi). 9 May 2021.
  38. ^ "आशुतोष आगाशे यांच्या कडून श्री. सेवा हॉस्पिटलला ऑक्सिजन कंसन्ट्रेटर". Surajya (in Marathi). 12 May 2021.

Bibliography

Further reading

  • Wadhwaney, K. R. (2005). Indian cricket and corruption (1st ed.). New Delhi: Siddharth Publications. pp. 140–317. ISBN 9788172201760.
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