Mark Vermeulen, who burned down Zimbabwe academy, set to make Test return

The 35-year-old Vermeulen, who admitted burning down Zimbabwe’s cricket academy in 2006 but was acquitted on the grounds of mental illness, last played a Test for the country against Sri Lanka in Bulawayo in May 2004. He retired from all forms of cricket in 2011 in the hope of forging a career in golf but that was short-lived and within a year, he was back playing on the Zimbabwe domestic scene.

Vermeulen, also banned for a year by the England board in 2006 after an altercation with a spectator at a Central Lancashire League club match, scored a century for Zimbabwe A against Afghanistan last week.