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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^[a] (born 21 October 1972) is an Indian businessman and former cricketer. He has served as thechairman andmanaging director of theBrihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate Ltd. since 2009.

A formerfirst-class andList A cricketer, he played in theRanji Trophy for theMaharashtra cricket team from 1996 to 1999. In 1999, he also played in theBelfast Cricket League forDerry, and briefly served as aselector for theMaharashtra Cricket Association in 2003.

Biography

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Early life and family: 1972–1996

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Agashe was born inPune,Maharashtra on 21 October 1972,^[4] into an aristocratic and entrepreneurialChitpavan Brahmin family of industrialistDnyaneshwar Agashe of theAgashegharana ofMangdari,^[5] and his wife Rekha Gogte, of the Gogtegharana ofBelgaum.^[6]

Through his father, Agashe is a grandson ofChandrashekhar Agashe, a nephew ofPanditrao Agashe andShakuntala Karandikar, a younger brother ofMandar Agashe, an older brother ofSheetal Agashe,^[7] of distant relation toThird Anglo-Maratha War general Bapu Gokhale,^[8] musicianAshutosh Phatak,^[9] historianDinkar G. Kelkar, and scientistP. K. Kelkar.^[10]

Through his mother, Agashe is a great-nephew ofB. M. Gogte,^[6] a first cousin to poetRashmi Parekh, a descendant of the aristocraticLatey (Bhagwat) family, and a relation toKokuyo Camlin headDilip Dandekar, and academicJyoti Gogte.^[11]

Agashe graduated with aB.Com degree from theBrihan Maharashtra College of Commerce.^[1] He represented his college in theircricket team.^[12] He married Shalini Phadke in 1997;^[13] she is a maternal granddaughter of the last ruler of theKurundwad Junior princely state from thePatwardhan Dynasty.^[14]

Career in cricket: 1996–2000

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Beginning in 1996, he playedfirst-class andList A cricket. His batting style has been described as aright-hand bat and his bowling style has been described as aright-arm medium.^[15]^[16]

From 1997 to 1999, Agashe represented his home state ofMaharashtra as a member of theMaharashtra cricket team playing first-class cricket in theRanji Trophy,^[17] having been selected for a four-day fixture for the Ranji Trophy by theMaharashtra Cricket Association in 1998,^[18] debuting as the team'scaptain against theMumbai cricket team at theWankhede Stadium in November 1999.^[19]

In 1999, Agashe further played in theBelfast Cricket League for Creevedonnell Cricket Club inDerry.^[2] He subsequently left List A cricket in 2000,^[15] having played since 1996.^[16] Remembered as one of the more prominent cricketers from Pune to play for the Maharashtra cricket team,^[20]^[21] and has been a life member of the Maharashtra Cricket Association.^[22]

Career in business: 2000–present

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Beginning in 1994, Agashe was appointed adirector at Brima Finance, before joining his father on theboard of directors of theBrihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate Ltd. in 1996.^[23] In 1998, under the leadership of Agashe and his father, the syndicate began marketingayurvedic medicines, health care products, and bulk raw materials,^[24] manufacturingfood products andveterinary medicine,^[25] promoting ayurvedicskincare products made by its sister company,Brihans Natural Products in 2000,^[26] and manufacturing alcohol-based chemicals by 2002.^[27]

In September 2000, Agashe was appointed as a joint managing director of the syndicate.^[28] In April 2002, he contributed an essay titledअजातशत्रू (lit. 'One who has no enemies') to his father's festschrift.^[29] In 2003, he was made aselector at theMaharashtra Cricket Association, at the time, chaired by his father,^[30]^[31] which raisednepotism concerns and drew in criticism for the association.^[32] That same year, he supported the publication of a book aboutMahavira and otherJain Tirthankaras by Shantilal Bhandari.^[33]

By 2004, Agashe was also looking after several operations of theSuvarna Sahakari Bank.^[34] That same year, he was part of his father's Maharashtra Cricket Association committee as a representative for the Club of Maharashtra,^[35] and worked as his father's aide during the controversial elections at theBoard of Control for Cricket in India, when his father was not allowed to vote asvice president of the board due to allegedfactionalism.^[36]

In 2005, under Agashe, the syndicate entered a partnership with Howling Wolves Wine Group ofAustralia which planned to set up awine production base in India.^[37]^[23] At the time, he was joint managing director at the syndicate.^[38] Between 2004 and 2005, he was elected thechairman ofSuvarna Sahakari Bank.^[3] and served as chairman when the bank was put undermoratorium by theReserve Bank of India in 2006.^[39] In 2007, he received theDSK Group Energy Award of 2007 for corporate implementation of energy efficiency improvement measures.^[40]

In 2008, Agashe was one of the directors implicated in Suvarna Sahakari Bank'salleged scam case. Him along with his parents, aunt and brother were taken underjudicial custody,^[41] during which time his father died in January 2009.^[42] He was subsequently released onbail that same month.^[43] The bank's merger with theIndian Overseas Bank was finalised by theReserve Bank of India in May 2009.^[44]^[45]

Since 2009, Agashe has been director at Agashe Brothers Financing Company, and since 2010, director at Baumgarten and Wallia.^[46] In August 2009, he was appointedchairman andmanaging director of the Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate.^[47] In 2015, he conceived the Dnyaneshwar Agashe Trophy as the highest award of merit at the Poona Young Cricketers Hindu Gymkhana's annual cricket tournament, the PYC Premier League, in honour of his father.^[48] In February 2019, he came out of retirement to participate in thePoona Club Premier League.^[49]

In May 2021, during theCOVID-19 pandemic in India, Agashe donatedoxygen concentrators to hospitals inShreepur, Maharashtra.^[50]^[51] In July 2024, he owned achess team for thechess league organised by the PYC Hindu Gymkhana,^[52] further owning atennis team at thegymkhana'stennis tournament in December 2024,^[53] with that same team going on to playtable tennis, tennis, andbadminton in the gymkhana'sracquet sport league in March 2025.^[54]

Published works

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Essays

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Agashe, Ashutosh (17 April 2002). "अजातशत्रू" [One who has no enemies]. In Barve, Ramesh; Vartak, Taraprakash; Belvalkar, Sharchandra (eds.).पुत्र विश्वस्ताचा : गौरव ग्रंथ : ज्ञानेश्वर आगाशे षष्ट्यब्दीपूर्ती निमित्त [Putra Viśvastācā : A Festschrift : In honour of Dnyaneshwar Agashe's 60th Birth Anniversary] (Festschrift) (in Marathi) (1st ed.).Pune: Jñāneśvara Āgāśe Gaurava Samitī. pp. 1–2.ISBN 978-1-5323-4594-4.LCCN 2017322864.OCLC 992168227. Retrieved22 May 2025 – viaUniversity of Oxford.
- Agashe, Ashutosh (17 April 2022). "Ajaatshatru: A Person with No Enemies". In Belvalkar, Sharatchandra; Vartak, Taraprakash; Barve, Ramesh (eds.).Putra Vishwastacha: A Festschrift to Dnyaneshwar Agashe. Translated byPhadnis, Nandan. Compiled by Agashe, Aditya (2nd ed.).Pune,Maharashtra:The Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate Ltd. p. 2–3.ISBN 9780578292250.LCCN 2021276707.OCLC 1325123469 – viaGoogle Books.

Notes

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