Subhash Agarwal is an India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n professional player and coach of English billiards

English billiards

English billiards, called simply billiards in many former British colonies and in Great Britain where it originated, is a hybrid form of carom and pocket billiards played on a billiard table. Billiards is less well known as "the English game", "the all-in game" and "the common game".The game is for...

 and snooker

Snooker

Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a green baize-covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions. A regular table is . It is played using a cue and snooker balls: one white , 15 worth one point each, and six balls of different :...

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

IBSF World Billiards Championship

The IBSF World Billiards Championship is the premier non-professional tournament for the game of English billiards in the world...

, losing to Michael Ferreira

Michael Ferreira

Michael Ferreira , nicknamed "the Bombay Tiger", is notable amateur player of English billiards from India, and a three-time Amateur World Champion...

 2744–3933, and later won the event. He received the prestigious Arjuna Award

Arjuna award

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 in 1983, Agarwal is the coach of the Indian national billiards team, working with Pankaj Advani

Pankaj Advani

Pankaj Arjan Advani is an Indian Billiards and Snooker player. A winner of seven World Titles in Billiards and Snooker, he is considered to be the one of the best Billiards Player India has produced...

 among others. He is the brother of the late World Snooker Champion Om Agarwal

Om Agarwal

Om B. Agarwal was an Indian professional snooker player who won the 1983 amateur IBSF World Billiards Championship in Dublin, Ireland, the first Indian to win the event. He received the prestigious Arjuna Award that year, in recognition of this victory for India. He died in 1994 at the age of 37...

, and a protegé of Anglo-Indian

Anglo-Indian

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