Three Maharashtra boys and two Assam girls have been included in the ten-member national colts team to take part in the Asian Junior Badminton Championship to be held at the Indonesian capital of Jakarta from July 11-16. The pre-competition coaching camp for the squad, which will be taking part in both team and individual events, is being held at Bangalore from today and would continue till the squad's departure for Indonesia on July 9, a release from the Maharashtra Badminton Association said today. The squad: Boys: Akshay Dewalkar, Amit Khadgi, Ajay Jairam (all from Maharashtra), Kaushik Pal (Bengal), Arun Vishnu and R C Vijay (both Kerala). Girls: Saina Nehwalla (Andhra Pradesh), Anita (Railways), Abantika Deka and Rimi Hazarika (both from Assam). Coaches: Sanheev Sachdeva and Jayesh Balawala. Manager: Madhurya Barua.
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