Two 'missing' women cricketers quizzed

Scotland Yard confirmed that police have been  talking to two members of an Indian women's cricket team who disappeared while on a playing tour of England, organised by an alleged people-smuggler.

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A senior police officer, Sergeant Vincent Harte, was assigned to quiz Rajwant Kaur, 24, and Parvesh Rani, 25, who were among five women reported missing by organiser and businessman 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, a  police spokesman said on Tuesday.

Still unavailable for comment is Mr Sharma, who brought the Punjabi women's cricket team to England.

He 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.