Ashutosh Agashe

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Ashutosh Agashe
Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate
In office
3 August 2009 – Incumbent
Preceded byDnyaneshwar Agashe
Personal details
Born (1972-10-21) 21 October 1972 (age 51)
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Spouse
Shalini Agashe (née Phadke)
(m. 1997)
Parent(s)
University of Pune (B.Com
)
Cricket information
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm medium
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1996/97–1999/00Maharashtra
Career statistics
Competition
First-class
List A
Matches 5 11
Runs scored 9 26
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/– 2/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 19 August 2016

Ashutosh Dnyaneshwar Agashe (

IAST: Āśutoṣa Jñāneśvara Āgāśe;[a] 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 the managing director of Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate Ltd.
since 1996.

Biography

Early life and family: 1972 – 1996

Agashe was born in

gharana of Mangdari,[4] and his wife Rekha Gogte, of the Gogte gharana of Belgaum.[5]

Through his father, Agashe is a grandson of Chandrashekhar Agashe, a nephew of Panditrao Agashe and Shakuntala Karandikar, a younger brother of Mandar Agashe, an older brother of Sheetal Agashe,[6] of distant relation to Third Anglo-Maratha War general Bapu Gokhale,[7] musician Ashutosh Phatak,[8] historian Dinkar G. Kelkar, and scientist P. K. Kelkar.[9] Through his mother, he is a great-nephew of B. M. Gogte,[5] a first cousin to poet Rashmi Parekh, a descendant of the aristocratic Latey (Bhagwat) family, and of relation to Kokuyo Camlin head Dilip Dandekar, and academic Jyoti Gogte.[10][11]

Agashe graduated with a

Kurundwad Junior princely state from the Patwardhan Dynasty.[15]

Career in cricket: 1996 – 2000

Beginning in 1996, he played

right-arm medium.[16] From 1997 to 1999, he represented his home state of Maharashtra in the Ranji Trophy,[17][18] having been selected for a four-day fixture for the Ranji Trophy by the MCA in 1998.[19] He also played for the Belfast Cricket League at Creevedonnell Cricket Club in Derry in 1999.[2] He left List A cricket in 2000.[16]

Career in business: 2000 – present

Agashe had begun as a director at Brima Finance in 1994, before joining his father on the board of directors at the Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate Ltd. in 1996.[20]

Beginning in 1998, under Agashe and his father, the syndicate began marketing

skincare products made by its sister company, Brihans Natural Products Ltd. in 2000,[23] and manufacturing alcohol-based chemicals by 2002.[24] In September 2000, he was appointed as a joint managing director of the syndicate.[25]

In 2003, he was made a selector at the

In 2005, under him, the syndicate entered a partnership with Howling Wolves Wine Group of

chairman of Suvarna Sahakari Bank.[3] and served as chairman when the bank was put under moratorium by the Reserve Bank of India in 2006.[33] In 2007, he received the DSK Group Energy Award of 2007 for corporate implementation of energy efficiency improvement measures.[34]

In 2008, Agashe was one of the directors implicated in

judicial custody,[35] during which time his father died in January 2009. He was subsequently released on bail that same month.[36] The bank's merger with the Indian Overseas Bank was finalised by the Reserve Bank of India later that same year.[37][38]

Since 2009, Agashe has been director at Agashe Brothers Financing Company, and since 2010, director at Baumgarten and Wallia.

managing director of the Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate.[40] 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.[41] In May 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic in India, Agashe donated oxygen concentrators to hospitals in Shreepur, Maharashtra.[42][43]

Notes

  1. ^ Agashe bears his father's name (Dnyaneshwar) as a middle name as per the patronymic Marathi naming conventions,[1] but he is widely known without his patronymic.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ a b Agashe & Agashe 2006, p. 62, आगाशे, आशुतोष ज्ञानेश्वर.
  2. ^ a b Williams, Joe (18 October 1999). "Ashutosh gets a fresh lease". The Indian Express. Pune. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Agashe heads Suvarna Sahakari". The Times of India. 3 September 2004. Archived from the original on 16 November 2017. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
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  5. ^ 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. Mumbai: Jaico Publishing House. p. 10. Retrieved 25 August 2022 – via University of California.
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  8. ^ Ranade, Sadashiv (1982). "जांभळी घराणा (पहिला)" [The First House of Jambli]. फाटक कुलवृत्तांत [Genealogy of the Phatak Family] (Kulavruttanta) (in Marathi) (2nd ed.). Pune: Phāṭaka Kula Samitī. p. 56. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
  9. ^ Kelkar, Bhaskar; Kelkar, Govind; Kelkar, Yashwant (1993). "कासारवेल – पुणे – धुळे घराणा" [The House of Kasarvel – Pune – Dhule]. केळकर कुलवृत्तांत [Genealogy of the Kelkar Family] (Kulavruttanta) (in Marathi) (2nd ed.). Pune: Yashoda Typesetting. pp. 82, 89. Archived from the original on 26 August 2022. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
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  15. LCCN 2012338795. Retrieved 25 August 2022.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
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  17. ^ "Ranji Trophy matches played by Ashutosh Agashe (5)". CricketArchive. Retrieved 10 April 2024.
  18. ^ India Today. Vol. 8. Thomson Living Media India Limited. 2003. p. 264. Retrieved 25 August 2022 – via University of Virginia.
  19. ^ "MCA declares Ranji team". The Indian Express. Pune. Express News Service. 12 November 1998. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
  20. ^ a b "Howling Wolves ties up with BMSS to market wines". The Hindu. Business Line. 2005. Retrieved 19 August 2016.
  21. ^ "Company Overview of The Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate Limited". Bloomberg. Archived from the original on 14 November 2016. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
  22. ^ THE BRIHAN MAHARASHTRA SUGAR SYNDICATE LTD. Zauba Corp (Report). 19 May 2022. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  23. ^ "Quadrant, Pune, wins Brihans Natural's Clean Comb". Agency FAQs. Mumbai. 11 July 2001. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  24. . Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  25. ^ Limaye, Y. D. (23 August 2001). Director's Report of the Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate (Report). Pune. p. 1.
  26. ^ "Definition of a good selector has changed". The Times of India. Pune. TNN. 3 December 2003. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
  27. ^ India Today International. Vol. 2. Living Media International Limited. 2003. p. 26. Retrieved 25 August 2022 – via University of Michigan.
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  29. ^ Korde, Rajesh (1 January 2004). "Agashe and team reinstated on MCA". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 14 September 2018. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  30. ^ "District court delivers a jolt to Agashe". The Times of India. 31 October 2004. Archived from the original on 14 September 2018. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  31. ^ Agtey Athale, Gouri (6 April 2007). "Brihans group, Australian wine co to sign JV soon". The Economic Times. Pune. Archived from the original on 12 December 2017. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  32. ^ "Now, Australian wine for India". The Times of India. Pune. TNN. 30 May 2005. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
  33. ^ "Suvarna Sahakari Bank placed under moratorium". The Financial Express. Pune. 16 September 2006. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
  34. ^ "DSK Energy awards presented". The Times of India. 21 December 2007. Archived from the original on 16 November 2017. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  35. ^ "Agashe, others sent to judicial custody". The Times of India. Pune. TNN. 25 November 2008. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  36. ^ "Son attends funeral under police eye". The Indian Express. Pune. Express News Network. 4 January 2009. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  37. ^ Thite, Dinesh (6 January 2009). "Agashe's friends had arranged for his bail". DNA.
  38. ^ "RBI okays Suvarna, IOB merger". The Times of India. Pune. TNN. 3 April 2009. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
  39. ^ Ashutosh Dnyaneshwar Agashe - Director information. Zauba Corp (Report). Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  40. ^ Limaye, Y. D. (13 July 2010). Director's Report of the Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate (Report). Pune. p. 1.
  41. ^ "टायगर्सची विजयपदाची डरकाळी" [Tigers' victory streak]. Lokmat (in Marathi). Pune. 14 November 2017. p. 11. Archived from the original on 5 May 2017. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  42. ^ "आशुतोष आगाशे श्रीपूरकरांच्या मदतीला धावले" [Ashutosh Agashe rushed to aid Shreepurkars]. Tarun Bharat (in Marathi). 9 May 2021.
  43. ^ "आशुतोष आगाशे यांच्या कडून श्री. सेवा हॉस्पिटलला ऑक्सिजन कंसन्ट्रेटर" [Oxygen concentrators gifted to Shree Seva Hospital by Ashutosh Agashe]. Surajya (in Marathi). 12 May 2021.

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