Subhash Agarwal (born 28 July 1948) is an Indian professional player and coach of

English billiards English billiards, called simply billiards in the United Kingdom and in many former British colonies, is a cue sport that combines the aspects of carom billiards and pool. Two (one white and one yellow) and a red are used. Each player or team us ...

and

snooker Snooker (pronounced , ) is a cue sports, cue sport played on a Billiard table#Snooker and English billiards tables, rectangular table covered with a green cloth called baize, with six Billiard table#Pockets 2, pockets, one at each corner and o ...

. A National Snooker Champion of India, he was the runner-up in the 1983 amateur

IBSF World Billiards Championship The IBSF World Billiards Championship (previously known as the World Amateur Billiards Championship) is the premier, international, non-professional tournament for the game of English billiards. Dating to some form to 1951, the event has been sanc ...

, losing to

Michael Ferreira Michael Ferreira (born 1 October 1938 in Bombay [now Mumbai]), nicknamed "the Bombay Tiger", is notable amateur player of English billiards from India, and a three-time Amateur World Champion. He participated in the Indian National Billi ...

2744–3933. In 1995 he defeated Peter Gilchrist in the final of the UK Championship, making him the first Indian national to win a ranking event held in the UK. He received the prestigious

Arjuna Award The Arjuna Award, officially known as Arjuna Awards for Outstanding Performance in Sports and Games, is the second-highest sporting honour of India, the highest being the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award. The award is named after Arjuna, one ...

in 1983, Agarwal is the coach of the Indian national billiards team, working with Pankaj Advani among others. He is the brother of the late World Amateur snooker champion

Om Agarwal Omprakesh Bankelal Agrawal also known as either Omprakash Agarwal or Omprakash Agrawal (27 April 1955 – 15 May 1994), was an Indian professional snooker player. Career Born in 1955, Agrawal played at the 1984 World Amateur Snooker Champion ...

, and a protégé of

Anglo-Indian Anglo-Indian people fall into two different groups: those with mixed Indian and British ancestry, and people of British descent born or residing in India. The latter sense is now mainly historical, but confusions can arise. The ''Oxford English ...

champion Wilson Jones. Agarwal's family name is sometimes misspelled "Agrawal".

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Indian snooker players Indian players of English billiards Coaches, managers and promoters in English billiards Snooker coaches, managers and promoters Recipients of the Arjuna Award Living people Recipients of the Dronacharya Award Place of birth missing (living people) 1948 births {{Snooker-bio-stub