‘It was surreal’: play resumes at world championship after Just Stop Oil protest

• Overnight repairs allow play to restart on affected table
• Mark Allen says Monday night’s events ‘completely crazy’

Normal play resumed at the world snooker championship at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre on Tuesday morning after a protester clambered on to one of the two tables on Monday and covered it with orange powder paint.

Table one was put out of action after the incident but overnight repairs to the green cloth surface allowed play to restart on Tuesday. The second table remained undamaged despite a female activist attempting to glue herself to it in the Just Stop Oil protest.