Missing cricketers 'were lost'

Two Indian women cricketers who disappeared while on a playing tour of England organised by an alleged people-smuggler are being quizzed by police today after reappearing in London.

The two, Rajwant Kaur, 24, and Parvesh Rani, 25, were among five women reported missing by coach Ravi Sharma after they disappeared from the Hounslow house where they were staying.

They turned up at the house, where they had left their passports, this weekend saying they had been "lost" for the past fortnight, police said today.

Sergeant Vincent Harte said he was waiting for an interpreter before quizzing the pair as to their whereabouts and the wellbeing of their team mates.

Mr Sharma, who brought the Punjabi women's cricket team to England, has been under investigation by Indian police - who raided his home - over allegations that he is a people-smuggler.

Immigration authorities in Britain are understood to be keen to speak to him. The other three women remain the subject of a missing persons inquiry.