Former BCCI vice-president dies

Dayaneshwar Agashe, the former Indian board vice-president and Maharashtra wicketkeeper, died in Pune after failing to respond to treatment for gangrene. He was 66 and suffering from diabetes.

He played first-class cricket for Maharashtra from 1962 to 1968 and scored two half-centuries in 13 matches. His best season came in 1964-65 where he made his career-best total of 75, took ten catches and effected two stumpings. His highest score took Maharashtra to 226 in reply to Gujarat's 74 in a match his side won by an innings and 34 runs. He was a contemporary of Test players Bapu Nadkarni, Dilip Sardesai, Farokh Engineer and Polly Umrigar.

Agashe was in judicial custody on charges of embezzlement of depositors' money of a co-operative bank he had co-founded when he was hospitalised on Friday.