England's CWG officials mistakenly failed to enter Melissa Lowther into the competition.GETTY IMAGES
England's Commonwealth Games officials were "left red-faced and scrabbling around for answers" on Tuesday after one of the team's cycling medal hopefuls was "unable to compete because they mistakenly failed to enter her into the competition." Melissa Lowther arrived on the Gold Coast "with her sights set on making the time trial podium," only to be told on the eve of the event that Team England did not "tick the right box on the entry system" (London TELEGRAPH, 4/10).
Protesters burned merchandise and "jostled with police outside a cricket stadium in Chennai on Tuesday," demanding Indian Premier League matches be canceled as the southern city "reels from a water crisis." Hundreds of demonstrators "gathered near the venue shouting slogans" before the Chennai Super Kings' match against Kolkata Knight Riders (AFP, 4/10).
Iraq on Tuesday was scheduled to host a foreign football club for a competitive match for the first time in decades, after FIFA "gave the go-ahead for games to resume." The Al Zawra'a club faced Lebanon's Al Ahed in an Asian Football Confederation Cup match in Karbala, south of Baghdad. The country had been prohibited from hosting int'l games since the early '90s (AFP, 4/9).
